Field Hockey Training for Young Players

Hockey drills, exercises and training tips

Coaching young children a new sport is always tough. But Field Hockey Training for Young Players shows you what areas of hockey should be introduced, when and to what level.

This great hockey training book gives you hundreds of drills, exercises and tips aimed at developing hockey tactics and error correction.

Chapter 1 Gymnastics

• Gymnastics with the Hockey Stick
• Stretching Exercises
• Gymnastics with the Hockey Stick Using a Partner
• Stretching Exercises with a Partner
• Group Gymnastics with the Hockey Stick

Chapter 2 Game Situations

• 2.1 Game Situation 1
• Shooting a Goal - Preventing a Goal
• Goal Shooting - Preventing a Goal
• Three Area Exercise
• From Midfield
• Four Area Exercise
• 2.2 Game Situation 2
• Scoring a Goal by Running and Passing - Preventing a Goal by Using the Sweeper
• Moving Up to the Goal Area
• Attack on the Goal
• Exercising in Zones
• Exercising in Halves
• Exercising in Zones with Two Goal Mouths
• Exercising with Five Goal Mouths
• 2.3 Game Situation 3
• Working out Goal Scoring Situations - Preventing Goals
• Parallel Games with Four Goals
• A Game with Sideline Goal Mouths
• Four-corner Goal Games
• Games with Four Goals Placed Freely in the Area
• 2.4 Game Situation 4
• Building Up the Game - Closing Down the Game
• Game with Free Channels
• Wing Play
• No-go Passing Zone
• Three-zone Exercise
• Game with Reversed Goals
• Goal Shooting by Numbers
• 2.5 Game Situation 5
• Correct Play - Attacking/Defending
• Games Using the Shooting Circle without a Goalkeeper
• Games with a Goalkeeper Part 1
• Games with a Goalkeeper Part 2
• Playing According to the Rules - Part 1
• Playing According to the Rules - Part 2

Josef Marx studied in Neuss and Dusseldorf. In addition to his profession as a teacher in a secondary modern school, since 1982 he has been a hockey teacher in the Sports Department of the Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf.

Gunter Wagner studied in Neuss. Since 1974 he has taught at various schools. Regarding his sports teaching in Krefeld, his main emphasis is on hockey.