Hockey: Hitting the ball

Shift the defence to create gaps in their press to exploit. Develop your teams patience and recognition of where the space will come.

Progress from the transferring technique to get your players recognising where the attacking options are after transferring.

Begin developing your teams transfer by nailing the technique, disguising passes and making the right decision as to when to pass long and when to stay short.

- 4 players have to move the ball across the box containing one defender
- Players must remain on the corners of the box
- The defender can move along the line from side to side, but cannot encroach on the players hitting
- If the ball is intercepted, swap the defender in the middle with the player who hit the ball

- Striking the ball at right angles off of the right foot
- Useful when changing the point of the attack
- Allows the strike to be gotten off quicker
- Dribble towards a cone, performing a hit off the right foot once the player has moved past it
- Focus should be on weight transfer to the right foot

1. The inside player passes the ball to their partner on the outside.
   
   
2. The inside player then moves clockwise to receive the ball back via a wall pass from the outside player.
   
   
3. The inside player then runs clockwise to pass the ball to the next player on the outside

Practice continues.

5 Players with one ball have to pass with only 2 touches on the ball each time, to each other in any direction whilst moving up the pitch. IMPORTANT to keep shape and not too many touches. Try and run as a team from one 25 to the other without making a mistake. With every mistake, the team should run back to the 25 and start again.