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4 Line Spoke Passing – Cross Body - Link to Drill
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A quick hitting team passing drill that emphasizes short/quicker passes like playing in a 2-player game
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Put 8-10 players in a group, and set them in 4 lines right next to each other (North, South, East, West). Players will start inside, and pop out 5 yards, catch and move ball. The next player about the receive the pass will start floating out as soon as the teammate is catching the ball.
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- Catch and Throw with Outside hand
- Catch Outside hand and exchange to throw with inside hand
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- Catch the ball with the inside hand and move quickly.. body needs to open up when you catch so you can step to teammate and throw
- Stick Work – player should emphasize on making good soft touch typer passes, and speed up with ages/skill level
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Spoke Passing w/ Groundballs & Pressure - Link to Drill
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A fun variation and take off this classic passing drills
Set Up
Put your players In groups of 8 or 10, and set up 4 lines all right next to each other, in the shape of a + sign. The first players in each line are on offense, and the second are defenders/trailers. Start with 1 ball in 1 line, with a live ground ball. the first player in line must top attack and get the ball, with the 2nd player defending as the trailer. The defender will shade one side, and the offense must roll to space and adjacent line teammate must pop out to support. Connect a pass to the outside so the trail defenders can intercept the pass, and continue until you get all the way around the circle. Reset and start a ground ball with a new line
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- Groundballs – Accelerate and get your head up
- Escapes – Feeling the open Space
- Off Ball Play – Adjacent teammates must recognize if their teammate curls to them and pop out for support
- Passing – Pass the ball to the outside to prevent defensive knock downs
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Tampa Clearing Drill & Game - Link to Drill
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This drill will emphasize spacing, ball movement, and transition principles when clearing the ball.
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Put 3 players of each team in every quarter part of the field. This is a 12v12 + goalies game. Start the ball with the goalie, and they play 4v3 keep away. After the 3rd completed pass, the last player with the ball carries it to the next quarter. They play 4v3 until 3 passes are made. Continue this until the team with the ball, advances to their offensive end, and they play 4v3 to the goal, and try to score. If there is a turnover or interception during the clearing, start a new ball with the opposite team. Coach can award 1 point for a team that successfully clears the ball, and award 1 point extra if they score.
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- Open field spacing in transition.
- Communication, call for the ball
- Riding, disrupt player with the ball.
- Clearing!!
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Offense and Defense Time: Picks - Link to Drill
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The key for this station is to talk about picks and the coverage solutions. Picks can get a great tool to have on offense, but they must be done properly in order to minimize turnovers. After you about the principles below, have them go a light 2v2 with picks to the goal.
- Setting a pick, players feet have to stay shoulder width, and the stick has to be vertical between shoulders. You cannot move at all during contact, unless it was forced by the opponent.
- Ball Carrier – Should be patient and allowing their teammate to move into the area for a pick. If its rushed, the the defense can easily guard it. Get to an area you want to attack from, and let your teammate come over to set up
- Inside Out – The picker should Always Arrive Alone (AAA) to a pick, meaning they need to be deceptive. Fake cuts, or any motion to force the picker’s defender to get in a bad position.
- Angle of Approach – As the picker, your back/butt should be pointed to the space your teammate is trying to attack.
- Dodger – We want to try and dodge as close to our teammates should as possible. This give us a better chance to Stick the pick
Coverage Solutions – The defense can do a few things to guard picks, and the quicker we can realize on offense why they are trying to do, we can counter and execute the pick effectively |
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- STAY – The defense want to keep matchups and will try to stay guarding original opponent. In this case, we want to STICK the pick, which will essentially allow our team to get a step or advantage to continue attacking the space they want.
- SWITCH – The defense switches on all picks, and doesn’t care about matchups. Here we want to SLIP, meaning quickly float to space behind the switching defender to see if we can connect on a quick pass to get an advantages
- DOUBLE TEAM – Teams will often jump or double team picks. The ball carrier must focus on running AWAY from pressure, and the picker should FLARE to support. Other teammates not he field should show as well.
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2v2 Pick Drills w/ Bill Pilat (Roanoke) - Link to Drill
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This is a team drill that works on both offensive and defensive picks, on and off ball
Set Up
Put 2 offensive players on the crease with 1 defender. On the perimeter, put 2 offense and 2 defensive players in. The outside players will initiate the drill, working point their 2-player game scenario. We can pick, use shallow cut, and redodges until there is an advantage going to the goal. The offensive players inside should be reading and reacting to the ball carriers, moving to open up into space. The crease defender can slide to support if needed.
Coaching Points & Principles
Progressions
- Coaching can tell the defense how to play, and then let the offense read+react to enhance learning
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- Offense Picks: recognize the defense is playing on picks, and then reach. If they are switching early, look for slips. if they are trying to get over/under to maintain matchup, try to stick the pick so your teammate with ball can get a step or advantage. If they double team, we want to sprint away from pressure with picker flaring for support.
- Defense Picks: Communicate through, stay, switch, over/under, etc..
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4v4 Small Ball Game - Link to Drill
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Have the offense Initiate with a pick. Goals scored off a pick Plus 2 Points!
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- Compete! Great game to keep score and compete
- Game IQ
- Offensively – playing in small spaces & implementing the 2 man game.
- Defense – Play with pressure, communicate
- Toughness! this drill will be highly competitive and players must be able to play fast and tough
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6v6 Scrimmage - Link to Drill
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Continue to have the players initiate offense with Picks
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