Last night I tried to change things up a bit. Instead of starting practice with our standard line drills, and then moving into some of the usual drills, I moved right into some new drills. We started with a semi circle half way between the cage and top of the box. I passed or rolled balls out to them to get them working on receiving passes (and attacking ground balls) and then getting off a quick shot. Also, since our goalie only practice in net once a week (side note: We have one goalie that plays half of each game, then middie the other half. We rotate the other kids in net for the other half of each game), I wanted him to see some shots from off the top of the circle, since no matter how much I try to pound it into their heads that they don't have to stand on the crease to shoot, they always end up there.
From there we moved into a give an go drill. I had them start at mid-filed, pass to me on the run, head to the net for a pass back with a shot. It went pretty well. I started with rolling the ball to them to get them scooping on the run. After a while, I started passing to them. We had some mild success cacthing the ball which was a great confidence booster for everyone (me included).
After a quick water break, which I throw in to keep them from getting too antsy waiting in line, I just had them start at the midfield line again, and pass to a teammate in the slot, that player would turn and shoot on the run. The player who passed, would follow his pass to the slot, and get ready for pass. Good, easy drill, that kept them moving, and flowed pretty well.
We finished up with 1 on 1 ground balls with ground ball winner getting to shoot, and other player playing defense. Then 2 on 2 ground balls, and actually had some good communication and movement to open space without the ball.
All in all it was a very good practice, everyone had fun, and I thought they had some good skill work.
(FYI, if anyone every wants a copy of drills, just let me know and I will send them your way).
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