10/27/2020 - Practice Plan

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5 Min Active Stretching
  • Fast and Competitive
  • Positive only
10 Min Rhythm passing drill
  • Use 5 cones
  • Setup the cones in a box with a middle cone. Off the middle cone we go 6-10 yards out
  • Kids stand on the middle cone, cut towards a cone and receive the pass
  • Catch on the outside, cradle, turn and make the pass


10 Min Rutgers DAS - Dodge Approach Slide
Rutgers DAS - Dodge Approach Slide
  • Objectives: Approaches, offball awareness, slide, fake slide/technique, communication, recovery
  • Setup Cones in a square, and create an X going out from the middle (Slide Man, Approach Man, Dodger)
  • Dodger:
    • Moves in the direction the coach tells them (alley, topside, behind)
    • Dodge in 3-5 yard area
    • 50-100% (gradually increase)
  • Approach Man:
    • Toss the ball to the dodger
    • Stick out, sitting down, head up, ball of your feet
    • Take away one side of the triangle (arm to shoulder), force the dodger one way, prevent any rollbacks
    • Hands on them, lock your arms at 90 degrees, punch, drive and steer
    • Recover to the crease once slider tells you to "Look away"
  • Slide Man:
    • Stick position: top hand above your ears, toward the inside, stick is behind you, then move it forward
    • Slide to where they are going, not to where they are at
    • Contain first, then go for the ball
    • Communicate to the look away guy
  • Rotation in the drill
    • Dodger becomes approach man
    • Approach Man to Slide Man
    • Slide Man to Dodger


5 Min Water
10 Min Rutgers Quad Pick Em
Rutgers Quad Pick Em
  • Objective: Approaches and Angles, Offball Awareness, Fake Slide
  • Setup:
    • 6 Cones - in a shallow rectangle 7 yards by 3 yards
    • Offense/Defense guy are back to back, start on whistle
    • Defensemen picks one cone to go around, Offensive guy picks a cone to go around, stay inside the box area and change direction
    • Use short sticks, nub sticks, or just hands
    • force player out one of the sides or backwards
  • Technique:
    • Keep player between hands, head up, sit down, arms at 90 degrees
  • Variation: use a slide man in the hole to fake the slide, stick inside, pivot foot to where you need to go


10 Min Setup Morph
  • Attack at x and two in the crease (paul at x)
  • middies at wings and top
10 Min Two players inside movement
  • Basic concept of crease guy (picks and exchanges) Divide into plus sign quadrant
    • If ball low be high in quadrant
    • Pick and choose which passes you cut for, every two passes you cut or pick
  • Outside guys morph into diamond or square - fade and follow - never go into the crease, pass or dodge (north/south east/west)
  • Pick and Roll
  • Mumbo - Underneath or behind the picker
    • Double Mumbo 'Morph 2' - dodge top middle Split dodge, two outside guys moving before he dodges, outside guys pick in and roll up, inside guys curl out inside towards the cage
    • Single Mumbo 'Morph 1 53 or 35' - one guy outside clears through, next guy mumbo in, inside guy curl out inside
    • X guy is the sneak
  • Trigger
  • Yellow - Ball shoot over the cage to x guy (shooter waits until x guy is in position)
10 Min Sideways Morph 2
  • Two halves, 2 guys each side and two guys feeding
  • Run Double Mumbo, inside guys curl out and shoot
  • outside guy is in the inside
10 Min 2 v 1 Box Build Up
  • Offense, clear through, create space, set picks and rolls
  • Drill starts as a 2v1 ground ball and goes into a 4 on 4
  • start with goalie and 1 defender in the hole
  • At corner of the box, have 2 offensive lines, and 1 defensive. Roll the ground ball with the defender always trailing
  • Goes as 2v1 (2v2), 3v3, 4v4
10 Min Clear to a slow break
  • 1 goalie, 1 defender, 1 middie, 3 attack
  • Goalie clears to a defender
  • Defender to middie, run the wing
  • Middie to attack, attack to x to other side
10 Min Paint the pipe lines of 3