5/31/2022

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching


10 Min Open Set, wide swing it around goal, run to the line you pass to
5 Min Slow break shooting
10 Min Continuous 3v2 with swaxlax
10 Min Stacked Sliding Drill

Teaching kids defensive slide sets is important but difficult to implement in a game due to the chaos. An important principle for defenders to learn is how to slide and recover.

  • 4 offensive players in the four corners
  • Put a goalie in cage and put 3 defenders stacked in a straight lin in the middle of from the crease
  • Assign a number 1,2,3 to each of the defenders or call out their names
  • The offense should move the ball, keep spacing, and shoot only off a pass across the crease or skip pass
  • The defense will have to come out and slide to the ball and recover. The coach calls a number 1,2,3 and the designated player with that number is the player who must make the slide and recover
  • As the ball is passed, a coach calls another different number and the assigned player slides aggressively to the ball.
  • The first defender recovers to the inside hole, stick to the inside and in the passing lane, with head up looking for the next dangerous guy



Rules of Sliding - when you initiate a slide it needs to be done with the proper technique

  • Slide to where he's going, not to where he's been - anticipate the path of the driving attackman
  • Breakdown on arrival - be ready to play solid defense - knees bent, back straight, balls of feet
  • Stay in front of the Attacker - the on-ball defender is forcing the player down the side of the field, stay in front of the ball carrier
  • Slide man stays on the ball - Once a defender initiates a slide, he must go, and once there he is now responsible for that man, the original defender recovers to the crease
  • Original ball defender recovers to the crease to pickup open man - if the slide is effective in making the attacker peel away the original on ball defender should recover to the crease
  • Lead with the stick, follow with the body - After leading with the stick, you’ll follow through with your body lowering the shoulder to make contact.
10 Min 3 Person Slides

The goal of this drill is to have your defense talk and do 1 and 2 position slides

  • Place a goalie in goal
  • The drill turns into 3 on 3
  • Create 4 lines of defense and offensive players (8 total lines) around the goal, 1 line at each corner just outside the box
  • Create a 5th line of offensive and defensive players to play in the crease
  • Place two piles of balls at each of the top corners
  • An offensive and defensive player runs into the crease
  • Ball starts at one of the top corners, the offensive player with the ball goes 1 on 1
  • If he beats his man, the crease defender slides, offensive player looks to pass it to the crease
  • The offensive player behind and diagnal from where the drill starts runs towards GLE
  • The 2nd defenseman slides and covers the crease
  • Coach should emphasize two slides



5 Min 53 Pick and Roll and Slip Shooting
  • two guys, one guy runs a 53, the other clears through and slips or sets pick and roll, 53 guy hits the guy but must look.
5 Min 2 man game at x with 2 cutters
  • Get two attack behind X, one dodges the other picks
  • Two middies in the center like 42 dodges
  • Dodger at X can pass to the pick guy to redirect, or keep going
  • Middies adjust to who cuts first
10 Min Offensive Walkthrough
  • 53, 21, 12, 42 Deuce


60 Min 6 v 6 missions 3 phases
  • Offense: 53, 32, 21, 12, 33, 55, 42, princeton, pick and roll/slips, dodge to draw double dump to sliding man
  • Defense: Amigo, Standard, Pinch, Heavy, Camel