A frenetic session of Hockey at EFSC this week

We had a really good turnout at Epping Forest Sportability Club this week for a session based around Hockey.
Ray led the warm up as usual before the kids picked up a hockey stick and tennis ball each to practice their ball dribbling.
Alan led a traffic light game - stop, go and pass the ball side to side on Amber. They then laid out cones as gates to dribble through and then do figures of eight around.

Next up  the kids paired up and passed to each other through the pairs of cones. Aland and Ray then set up some lanes of cones for them to dribble around before introducing a shooting element.

We then put all that practice to use as we played some small sided games. We split the group in to three teams and the scores were as follows:-
​Green vs Blue 3-1
Green vs Yellow. 3-1
Blue vs Yellow 10-4
Not sure why there was such a high score in the last game.

Once all the hockey was over we switched sports to Benchball. We kept in the same teams and the blue team won the first game and yellow the second.​

We finished off with a few leisurely games of Boccia. This time we just had two teams, one at either end of the hall. We started with lots of hoops to aim for but with each game the number decreased until the last game just had the one hoop. Some of the throwing was excellent and by the end most balls were going in the hoops. The last game was an honourable draw with each team getting seven of their balls in the hoop.
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As I stated at the start, the session was busy, loud and frenetic but a lot of fun. If the kids were not tired by the end of the session then us adults certainly were.
The coaches awarded the Star of the Week awards this week to Davina and Rhys - well done to both of you!
Join us again next week where, if the weather is kind to us, we will try and get outside and may well be playing tennis as we warm up for Wimbledon!​

Davina receiving her award from Coach Alan

Rhys clearly enjoying his Star of the Week award