8/3/2021 - Optional Practice

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
  • Start with a warm up jog of a full length of the field and back
  • Knee huggers (hamstrings): Hug each knee to the chest, moving hips forward
  • High kicks (hamstrings, hips): Kick leg up and across the body towards raised hand on opposite side. Let leg free fall (lightly) backwards.
  • Lateral slides (groin, hips, knees, ankles, lower back): *visualize a line of hurdles* move laterally while ducking under each hurdle.
  • Heel scoops (hamstrings, lower back): Extend leg out in front with heel on the ground. Reach with both hands towards the heel. Come “through the leg” with arms all the way above the head.
  • Toe touches (hamstrings, core): On one foot, reach down and across the body towards the foot on opposite side. Simultaneously reaching behind with unplanted leg.


5 min Warmup 2 Laps Around the Field
15 Min Movement (1-7 should be daily, 8-10 are linear acceleration specific)

15-20 Yards

  • 1) Marching with high knees (hands up)
  • 2) Marching with high knees (arm swing)
  • 3) High Knee Skips
  • 4) Lateral High Knee Skips
  • 5) Side Shuffle w/Overhead reach
  • 6) Carioca
  • 7) Back Pedal
  • 8) Running with high knees
  • 9) Tall-Fall Run x 3
  • 10) Push-Up - Start x 3
  • 11) Build Up Sprints (40 yards) x 3
10 Min Over the Shoulder Passing
10 Min North/South East/West Passing and Shooting
  • Start in 14 balls on top and bottom, feed middle
  • Morph into open and sides dodge
10 Min 4 v 4 Keep Away in the Box, Start with Ground ball
10 Min Alley Dodge with Pull Pass and Shot
  • Explain a pull pass across your body, moves the ball 1-2 seconds quicker
  • 3 Lines up top
  • First guy Dodges down the alley, hit a cone then pull passes to the center guy
  • center guy moves it to the 3rd guy for the outside shot
  • New guy goes, run to the line you pass to
  • Switch Sides
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRRbXgiLbIg
10 Min Drill: Baer Drill
  • Low center of gravity drill
  • Athletes are back to back
  • box out for control over the ball
  • Kick the ball 2 times before it is live
  • When ball is in between your feet you kick the ball
  • Competitive aspect to stay low
  • Variant: Put the ball between their backs
7 Min Dodging from X
  • The Boyle Rule - Ask yourself am I faster or more athletic then the person covering me?
  • Optimal Speed - the rate at which someone or something is able to move or operate
  • change of speed
  • change of direction
  • change of angle
  • change of posture (running back/quarter back)
  • Step Back - Fade away step away shot, use your man as a screen (Have a defense guy standing or trash can)
  • Inside Roll - use your bottom hand elbow to push the guy out, try to run to opposite pipe
5 Min 2 v 1 Box Build Up
  • Offense, clear through, create space, set picks and rolls
  • Drill starts as a 2v1 ground ball and goes into a 4 on 4
  • start with goalie and 1 defender in the hole
  • At corner of the box, have 2 offensive lines, and 1 defensive. Roll the ground ball with the defender always trailing
  • Goes as 2v1 (2v2), 3v3, 4v4
10 Min Rondo Drill to Transition drill
  • Sacred Heart calls this the Loyola drill
  • Have goalie, 3 attack, 3 defense in goal
  • At the midline, send in 3 v 2 or 3 v 3 middies, pass the ball around in the middle with 4 consecutive passes, hit the coach with the ball, coach starts the transition into 6 v 5 or 6 v 6