Drills and games

Here you can access the archives of all uploaded drills and games, sorted after when I use them during practice.

Below you will see a template for a practice. This should only be considered as a basic structure for a basic training. Depending on the goal of a practice, it could look vastly different. For an example pre-game practice or practice a day after a game, would not follow this structure. But I think it works great for a "normal" practice.

Click the picture, to get an enlarged version of the training structure.

Drills

Here are all warm-up drills. These are the drills you do as soon as your goalies are ready to take on shots, and the players are ready to start shooting shots. I like my warm-up drills to be efficient in terms of number of shots per time unit, to provide the goalies with a high load of shots, opening up the chance to switch pretty quickly to more skill based drills.

A skills drill is something I try to go to as soon as possible after the warm-up drills. These drills focus more on the actual development of players and goalies, forcing them to work on certain types of technical skills. Some of them are better for a typical 20+2 training, and others are more aimed at skills practices, with fewer participants.

Later on I like to bridge the warm-up and skills part of the practice with an activation drill. This might be a counter attack drill with backchecking, or a fluid two-on-twop drill with a high tempo and lots of decision making at hight speeds, while being pressured from a backchecker.

Games

There are of course different possible slots for a game in a practice. Sometimes you might want to do a possession game with your players, while the goalies are working on their mobility or getting ready to face shots. Meaning you almost start practice with a game. You might throw in a small area game directly after the skills section, to stimulate decision making

And other types of games work better later in practices. For an example the conditioned games, where I strive after more of a game like setting (mostly 5 on 5, but there are other conditioned games as well). The conditions of the games are there to make sure that you practice what you have targeted, instead of getting a lot of noise in your games.

Goalie drills

I think most of your normal drills can actually be converted into goalie drills. It all depends on the tempo and when you consider a repetition within a drill to be "done".

But there are of course also designated goalie drills. They are not adapted to goalies from a normal drill, but designed for the goalies in the first place.