9/20/2022

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Time Drill
5 Min Active Stretching
  • Goal, Swax Lax, Bucket Balls, Cones, Football, Basketball
16 min 16 Min Speed Workout
  • 10 five second drills, with 55 seconds of rest, do each drill on the minute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2eGvElkBQU&t=300s

  • Fast March - Pickup knees with hands opposite, be snappy, stomp the ground
  • A-Skip - Do for 5-10 seconds, big in front, knee high, snappy skip
  • High Knees - Big in front, short snappy steps, Fast high knees
  • Box Jumps - pretend to jump over boxes, bounce off the ground and jump high, hands in the back and bounce (5 boxes)
  • Bounding - Look like a runner, 45 degree angle, jump off each foot, but get high and far and try to glide through the air, drive the knee high
  • Pogo Jumps - straight up and down - bounce off the ground arms go up high
  • Prime times (short) - quick movement straight legs, 12 inch steps, super frequent,
  • Prime times (big) - straight legs, get the foot out as far out as possible, maintain tallness, go as fast as you can go
  • Bent Knee Prime Times - Bent knees, get the foot out as far as possible
  • 10 yard split and rip - Start with weight on front foot, left foot and left hand high, eyes down

Sprints

  • 4 min rest in between
  • 20 Yard sprint
  • 40 Yard Dash
10 Min Diagonal Passing
  • 3 lines of cones in a diagonal about 20 yards apart
  • Starts running down field, turns and passes to a guy coming diagonal to him
  • Second guy catches runs down field, passes to a guy diagonal to him
  • Last guy carry's ball up to the cones, and each player rotates down.
10 Min Alley Dodge to crease pop passing
  • Have two lines top of the box and two guys in the crease
  • One guy alley dodges, as he gets past the crease guy he pops, and mirrors pass, the alley dodge rolls out and passes to the outside
  • The guy that catches the ball passes the ball across, and do the same thing.
  • Alley Dodger moves to the crease

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=83&v=vpbzR94jX5o&feature=emb_logo

10 Min Face Offs and Ground Ball Drill


Devil Ground Ball Drill

  • Bring an extra long pole
  • 4 guys in the drill
  • Ball on the ground about a yard in front of the guy scooping the ball, about 2 yards away are two chasers, off to the side is an outlet guy
  • On whistle scoop through the GB, arms tight to the body
  • Run through the ball, keep it going your way, Make a big turn with the ball to escape pressure, ball carrier and outlet guy communicate
  • Defense don't kill the ball handler
  • Switch the outlet and GB guy, then rotate defense to GB and outlet (switching long poles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0e_myHAuw

10 Min Line Bump Drill
  • Setup 3 cones in front of goal, with 3 offensive and 3 defensive players
  • Offense does a double move but stays near cone, defense doesn't take the ball away
  • Phase 1: Positioning when the ball moves
  • Phase 2: Slide & Recover - Hot, Away, 2


10 Min Gretsky Drill 4v4
  • Goalie or blocker, 2v2, 3v3, 4v4 up top, 1 feeder low, the other at a side, cone off a diagonal GLE
  • Cut towards ball, spacing far and away and look to cut for position, look for off ball picks
  • Variation: Add 1 defensive guy down low
  • Variation: 3 v 2 up top and 2 v 1 down below (low guys can't shoot)


10 Min Long Pole Breakout Drill
Long Pole Breakout Drill

The purpose of this drill is to combine some footwork drills with a breakout for a clear, and to teach a long pole what to do when he's in trouble on the clear.

  • Have a coach act as a goalie
  • Put a ladder to the left or right of the goal (1)
  • 3 cones out in a line where you want the kid to banana cut (2)
  • two cones further up the field in a line
  • The player runs through the ladder, banana cuts around the 3 cones
  • Calls for the ball and catches a pass from the goalie at (2)
  • Face dodges the first cone up the field (3), then fakes the 2nd cone, then rolls back and passes back to the coach in the middle of the field (4)




30 Min 3v3 Lacrosse
  • Larger field and out of bounds
  • Phase 1: Must do a 2 man game move to shoot
  • Phase 2: