A good Turn Out for a Session of Hockey this week

​This week was all about Hockey with focus given to ball control with the stick. To start with there were some simple drills to get the children comfortable controlling the ball with the hockey stick. We then moved on to drills around passing and shooting. A game called King of the Ring followed and then some one versus one games where two children faced off against each other before shooting for the goal.

Thomas practices his ball control with the hockey stick

Nick defending against Abraham in a game of 1 vs. 1.

After a short break we moved on to a game called bench hockey where we split in to four teams and you play with the sticks going through the bench and the pitch is the area between the benches with the goals at either end. This not only helped practice the ball control but also added team work in to the game. It is similar to playing table football in that the ball moves backwards and forwards between players on each team as the ball travels up and down the pitch. Hopefully these pictures can help demonstrate the game a lot better!

Lastly there were team games of hockey putting everything learnt in to short games. At the end of the session the coaches, Alan and Ray, decided that Hal was the Star of the Week for good effort all round throughout the session. Well done Hal!
This coming Saturday is our last before the christmas break so we hope to see as many members as possible there. We may even see a former coach make a special appearance!