Nutmeg #3
Objective – teach how to defend feet/dribbling the ball
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The aim is to get the ball between your partners feet
- Each player must keep moving
- You are not allowed to stand with your feet together
- You are not allowed more than 2m from the attacker
- No smashing the ball hard
- Count each time you get it through
Scoring
- Can you beat your own highest score?
- What gives you the best chance of scoring points?
- Do you always hold the stick in the same way?
- Who is hardest to play against? And why?
- What does it look like when someone is playing well?
- Keep the ball and stick in contact as much as possible
- This game is about
- close control
- staying on the move and
- being aware of other players.
- Make sure right hand low down the stick, knees are bent and back is straight
- Critical to stay on the move in hockey
- Add more players, say 3 – 2 with ball or only one with ball choose the partner
- Make it into a warm up game where everyone say in the d can put it through other people
- Add a point for hitting their feet as well

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