Hockey Drills for Novice Players.
The drills discussed below revolve around team, technical as well as individual tactics. They also incorporate the skills of skating, passing, stopping and agility.
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Hockey Drills for Kids
The first drill requires that the players split up into two teams, one team on one bench. On each blue line, 10 pucks are lined up and a goalie is present in each net. As the whistle is blown, one player from each team gets up from the bench and speeds towards the blue line. To help them pick up speed, the coach can get the players to come out from a fare-off door so that they can speed up on their way to the blue line. When they reach the blue line, they’re supposed to pick up the puck and make use of the breakaway position, since there’s no one defending the goal other than the goalie. If the player is able to shoot the pucker into the goal, he’ll rush back to the bench and let the next player go. But if the player is not able to put the pucker into the goal or if the goalie defends it, he has to recover the pucker and put it on the blue line for the next player to use. Out of the two teams, whichever scores all of their pucks first, wins the game.
Conditioned Hockey Drills:
This drill begins with the players starting off in a 5-card position. When the whistle is sounded, each player speeds off to his appointed area of attack, swivels and then skates in a backward manner and settles into a 5-card position. When the first one return, the one next in line speeds out and repeats the same exercise. The center protects the corner points until they return and take back the seam (the areas of attack are 5 & 2). Four laps of this are supposed to be done and then this 5-man team is replaced with a new one.
Basic Hockey Skills Which are Often Overlooked
Several fundamental hockey skills go into making up a complete player, but some outshine the others. Making big saves and defensive stops, scoring goals; these are very noticeable to someone watching the game. But it’s the small things that aid in making these big things happen.
Atom Hockey Drills
Let’s start with a good warm up drill which takes up 5 minutes. In this drill, players are supposed to take off one by one but the trick is that they do this backwards between the blue lines. Also, they have to do a jump of two foot over each line. Along with this, they also have to touch their toes, do leg kicks and trunk twists.
Youth 10 – 12 Years
Warming up drills are an excellent way to start your work session. Players stand around 10 meters separated from each other in a 3:3 attacking position and pass the ball between themselves utilizing an variation of passes. The point is to move the ball around rapidly and precisely, utilizing one and two hands to get the ball.
Senior 16+ Adults
Like all other age groups, warming up is important for seniors as well. One way to do that is the triangular run. The setup is simple and the run is about dribbling. You start with dribbling the ball from left to right and center to back and then you start throwing the ball. You throw the ball to bounce and catch it or throw it and catch at once.
Mini 6-7 years
While Sitting on a roller board move yourself over a distance of 10 meters. Two groups of 4 to 5 kids will be divided. Put a marker on both feet and at the end, put the marker on the board and roll it back to the next player.
Junior (8 – 9 Years)
The white player and green player begin at the same time. They dribble through the areas and are joined by a defender blue. When the green and white players are in a similar territory, the blue players give them each other’s attacker.
Intermediate (13 – 15 years)
The game should always start with warm up because they are very important. The warm up drills can be of many types, such as triangle run, ball up or 3:3 position play. In ball warm up, players have a ball each and go through different dribbling variations as instructed by the coach. This gets your players running while also improving their hand-eye coordination.