The Hockey Factory is the online platform for hockey coaches to create and manage their own exercises; it is packed with practices and separate exercises to train technical and tactical hockey skills.
The Hockey Factory provides an abundance of attractive and qualitative exercise material targeting recreational, achievement and elite field hockey players.
The Hockey Factory enables every field hockey coach to create their own exercises in a database, to share knowledge with other coaches and to create schedules for the entire hockey season.
Customised drills and exercises for all ages are developed by an elite group of experienced coaches and players from around the world.
Features of The Hockey Factory include
- Drawingtool; create your own excercise drawings.
- Periodization; create your own planning for the entire season.
- Add video; add videos of technical or tactical skills to your excercises.
- Share trainings via email; supervisors can email trainings to trainers.
Also there are easy to use diagrams as per example shown below:
Purpose
Warming up exercise in which the focus is on scoring on the side board in the far corner
Organisation
- place left and right of the goal between 25 and midline two double cones; the distance is about 10m.
- enough balls at these cones, players divided over the two sides
- place in front on these cones on top of the circle left and right an obstacle or a row of cones
- goal keeper in goal or an obstacle in the middle of the goal
Exercise
- player A plays the ball to player B
- player B dribbles towards the corner and goes around on the outside
- player B enters the circle and finishes on goal trying to hit the far corner; in the meantime player C plays the ball to player A
- player A dribbles towards the cones and goes around on the outside
- player A enters the circle and finishes on goal trying to hit the far corner
- if the player succeeds in hitting the sideboard, he will earn one point
- – variation: create a game where the left side plays against the right side; who has the most points?
Instructions
Aiming for the far corner
- the direction of the shot will be defined by:
- position of the left shoulder in the playing direction
- position of the ball: to much behind the body, makes the ball go right; to much in front of the body makes the ball move to the left
- rotation of the wrist
- follow through with the stick
If you would like more information about how the Hockey Factory can help your role as a coach then send an email to the below address. There is a special introductory offer click here.
