Template:Lars Tiffany Defensemen Pre-Practice
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Lars Tiffany Defensemen Pre-Practice
Things to do before you scrimmage or go full field, balance of footwork and technique
- Communication, approaches, sliding
- 2 Min of fundamental for the whole team
- 15-18 Min of breaking out to Face offs, Defense, Offense, Goalies
Defense Warmup
Do ladder work
Drill: Hands Drill - Coaches points left/right/back with 4 guys out to do the footwork, then coach rolls a ball out, the pickup the ball flip to the next guy, then approach, get the stick on the bottom hand on the approach
- Defense does the lateral footwork with the stick in front of them
Drill: Five on a die - 5 guys together, 1 guy pretends he's getting a guy down the alley, beat top side, slide and adjust for the rest of the guys
Drill: 4 Man down the field Picks, get under, double, switch, over
- Purpose is to work on communication and repetition
Drill: 53 Drill
- Two guys are on offense are unguarded on the top of the diamond
- two guys on offense form the outside of the diamond
- one offensive guy on the crease
- Three defensemen cover the middle 3 guys in the diamond
Drill: Upfield Breakouts with goalies passing
General Notes
- The womans 11 meter arch is called the red zone, anyone off ball gets into the red zone, ball guy can go out and pressure
- 5 Categories of training: footwork, stickwork, scheme work, communication, challenge (offense has a stick and you don't and have to be a db covering a receiver)
- Lars gets new defenders and they are shocked on how much they are asked for to learn.
- Work with multiple slide packages, invert defense, zone defense
- Teaches his defense, stick out, pokes, and lifts (no slaps)
