Match-like Hockey Drills

By Jukka Aro

Match-like hockey drills. The idea of this hockey book is that the focus should be entirely on hockey drills in different categories and that all hockey drills link as much as possible to the theme of match-like hockey training, whether it is a warm up drill, skating or a passing drill.

You will, of course find some exceptions in especially the skating drills, where it is sometimes more about drilling down your head and work with the speed, fitness and technique, but many skating drills are linked to, for example defense skating, offensive skating, forechecking or memorizing skating paths - Match-like training.

The hockey drills with turnovers, breakouts, offensive drills and 1 vs 1, 2 vs 1, 2 vs 2, 3 vs 2 or 3 vs 3, of course naturally gets a strong connection to the theme match-like hockey drills.

You also get tips on "spices" for the hockey drills, which make a difference, details that cannot be drawn into the drills, but link the drills even more strongly to the theme match-like hockey drills!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Apr 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9789179695125

Jukka Aro

Med 25 års erfarenhet som hockeytränare (Förbundstränare) och ett 10-tal hockeyböcker för hockeytränare och hockeyspelare, skriver jag nu en ny typ av bok, som är en barn- och ungdomsbok, kombinerat med hockeyträningstips, bilder och text eller i många fall interaktiva med en QR kod till sociala medier för att titta på träningstipset.

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Content

Introduction

Development of Hockey drills

Drawing explanation

Warm up and Skill drills

1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3… Hockey Drills

Skating drills

Focus on shots and goalies

Entering offensive zone and offensive plays

Offensive plays from deeper starting position

Turnovers

Breakouts from deep defensive position

Other Hockey books

Empty practice plans

Thank you for purchasing this book! I hope and believe that you will find many useful drills.

All drills have been designed with the idea that it should be:

Match like

Good flow

Many players in motion

Easy to change, in other words add or remove parts (Players, rebound takers, continue with a new step, extra shooter, stressor etc.)

A little moving of pucks for you as a coach

The drills are drawn in a basic format, sometimes without e.g. defender or extra roles to keep the drawing clear.

For several of the drills, there are suggestions on how to change the drill in the text connected to the drill, of course you can change all of them, by adding players / strikers / defenders / passes / shots, etc. (more on this in the next chapter).

You can also run the drills in a zone, on a half or full rink or add finish, for example, the skating drills.

By choosing what you want to practice, the purpose of the drill can be changed by pointing this out to the players. A skating drill with puck might as well be a skating skill as a stick handling drill, or a match moment depending on what you choose to point out, not all of these variants are printed under the purpose of each drill.

When instructing the drill for the players, I think it is important to point out why you have chosen the drill and what the purpose / goal of the drill is (why are we doing this?).

After completion of the drill, feedback or feedforward is obviously needed on how the performance was and what we can learn and take with us to the next time we do the drill.

You may be wondering who I am, who created the book? My name is Jukka Aro, father of three children (everyone plays hockey) and happily married for 20 years.

In ice hockey, I have played at A-team level myself, but choosing, or realizing that being a coach was probably my thing.

I have been a hockey coach for over 25 years at many different levels from hockey school, U7-U16, J18, J20 to assistant coach in division 1, skills coach, leader of Select teams, TV puck (regional team), school hockey (7th – 9th grade and high school), fitness coach and can now also add the title hockey book author after 7 printed hockey books in different languages. I have the highest level of education from the Swedish Hockey Association and have also studied at the Coach Academy.

The idea of this book is not to write a novel but to focus entirely on hockey drills in different categories and that all hockey drills link as much as possible to match like training, if it is then about warm-up drill, skating or passing drill. Of course, you will find some exceptions in especially the skating drills, where sometimes it is more about drilling down your head and working with the tempo and the skills, but many skating drills are still linked to, for example, defense skating, offensive skating, forechecking, memorizing of skating paths etc.

The hockey drills with breakouts, turnovers and offensive plays naturally get a stronger connection to the theme match-like.

The next chapter, which I have borrowed from my previous book Multidimensional Hockey Drills and Training, I see as the spice, which makes a difference in many hockey drills, even those you already use, details that cannot be drawn into the subsequent drills, many drills will already be plot in the basic format, but then you have the descriptive text to support.

In the next chapter you will get tips and ideas on how to connect the drills even more strongly to the theme match-like or streamline the use of the ice time by adding new roles, continue the drill after completion or run skill training on the way back or during the waiting period.

Try to carry with you the content from this first chapter as you look at drills later in the book, season them with content from the upcoming chapter!

When it comes to the grammatic and language in the book, I’m

Finnish (mother tongue), living in Sweden and fluent in Swedish, so

English is my third language, if you find some grammatic errors or

funny / strange expression, you know why… Please try to see above

the Swenglish and just try to catch the message.

Development of hockey drills

Development of hockey drills

Before we go into the hockey practices, let's take a brief look at things around the drills, which are often difficult to draw or describe in all hockey drills, as I mentioned earlier.

The coming pages are thus part of the spices that you can add to the recipes, which will come later.

Add steps or change

There is a lot of forward and backward skating in the drills, but the drills can of course be adjusted in many different ways, such as doing the drill with the additional steps or parts, forward and backward, inner and outer cuts, with no puck, as a station, extra passes, extra shots, over the full rink, from blue to goal with finish, jump over obstacles, flip the puck over an obstacle, protect the puck at obstacles etc.

If we start with some of the examples, I mentioned in the introduction

The drills are drawn in a basic format", sometimes without e.g. defender or extra roles to keep the drawing clear.

For several of the drills, there are suggestions on how to change the drill in the text connected to the drill, of course you can change all of them, by adding players / strikers / defenders / passes / shots, etc.

You can also run the drills in a zone, half or full rink or put an end in, for example, skating drills."

Add defender

2 against 0 basic format drill from page 204

... which you easily convert into a 2 against 1 drill.

… or 2 vs 2 by adding additional defenders from starting position A or B

Add a finish to skating / Skill drill

Drill with fakes in a basic format from page 136 without finishing on goal.

… which you can easily turn into an drill with a shot on goal.