Two New Game Skills Practices for Training

Here are a couple of new Game Skills Practices I have roughly designed for training, these are based on similar drills out there I have tweaked and changed them a little bit. The first is-

PINWHEEL

The purpose of the pinwheel game skills practice is to work on the players hitting and trapping on the move. The players set up in two circles in alternative lines to each other and the inside circle rotates/runs in a clockwise direction while the outside circle rotates/runs in a anti-clockwise direction. Like I say the object here is to trap the ball in the run then pass to another who is also on the run in the other circle. If the GSP is working well then know one should run into each other.

The second GSP is more of a entire training one called

Building Attack/Countering with Defence

The purpose here is to give the attackers the ability to be creative and figure out how to score and create goals, and also to help the entire team to learn how to develop strong defence and counter attacking structure and measures.

Its done in two stages-

Stage 1- The Grid Games (Players Self Umpire & Self Coach)
Stage 2- Half Court Hockey Attack v Defence Alternate

The key points here are that this is also designed for the players to become self aware, because in both stages they will self umpire and self coach, with the coach only coming in and asking questions where needed.

Also in stage 2 the games work at 10 minutes hard followed by 5 minutes rest this is designed to also work on fitness and capacity to run out games.

Enjoy