Our team has alot of new freshers taking up D, but im struggling to think of any really good drills to help them practise good body/positioning
we've tried running lots of man on man where we try to get them to only play body but we still find alot of "hollywood" checks flying in, even worse in games
the only way i have found to get around this is by giving everyone stumpys, but once we are back in a game situation, the stick chasing returns.
any ideas?
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- petegriffin
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I'm not sure how good it is but for our freshers we did that box drill with 4 corners, with short sticks passing round and 3 defencemen in the middle running a triangle defence, with no sticks.
Once they get the hang of the triangle zone let the attack do some driving and emphasize the idea of not getting beat to the middle and pushing down the side lines.
It's pretty tiring for the defence so I find it gets the positioning ideas nicely drilled it.
However, as you've said the moment they get given a d-pole in a 6 on 6 they still need shouting from the side lines to keep on the body and to stop giving up positioning for checks. can't do much harm though.
Once they get the hang of the triangle zone let the attack do some driving and emphasize the idea of not getting beat to the middle and pushing down the side lines.
It's pretty tiring for the defence so I find it gets the positioning ideas nicely drilled it.
However, as you've said the moment they get given a d-pole in a 6 on 6 they still need shouting from the side lines to keep on the body and to stop giving up positioning for checks. can't do much harm though.
to add on to using just gloves get some old shafts (stubbies) and cut them down to hip size length (this is where there hands should be on a normal stick) and have them use that. This teaches them positioning while having the idea of having a stick in their hand. They dont rely on their stick to play defence they rely on flootwork and field positioning.
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