Core Strength Jump
August 17, 2018
Headis
August 24, 2018
Summary
- Field area: Mid distance, Slot
- Content: Player passes a ball from the corner to the center in front of the goal where another player shoots
- Focus: Movement speed, positioning
- Equipment: 1 goal
- Number of Assistants: 2 field players
Merry goes round
This exercise is very common during the warm up period before a game. It helps the strikers to get a feeling for the ball, the stick and the right touch for goals. For goalies, it is very useful to warm up the hands and get familiar with the slide ability of the floor. The goalie can decide by himself if he needs the focus at the final positioning or the whole motion sequence.
How to do it?
- Starting point
- Goalie
- You are on the right post and observe the player with the ball (1)
- Field players
- Equally distributed in the corners behind the goal
- Field player in the right corner has a ball (1)
- Field player in the left corner has no ball (2)
- Movement
- Action
- Field player (2) in the left corner (no ball) runs a semi circle
- Field player (1) with ball moves a bit forward, parallel to the boards, and observes the run of the other player (2)
- Goalie observes the field player with ball (1) and scans the field whereby he recognizes the running player(2) from the other corner
- Action
- Field player (1) passes the ball once field player (2) buckles and runs towards the goal
- Goalie pushes himself from the post to the centre of the goal and brings himself in position
- Action
- Field player (2) receives the pass, and can decide if he takes a direct shot or controls it first and runs towards the goal
- Goalie always repositions himself, related to the position of the oncoming striker, to be in the perfect position to save the ball
- Final point
- Once the goalie saved the ball, he moves to the left post and repeats the exercise
- Field player (1) continues his run and starts the semi circle
- New field player from the other corner gives him the pass
Increase the degree of difficult
Here are two options to modify this exercise
Last words
Depending on the frequency of the exercise, the goalie can train the whole motion sequence or only the part of saving the ball in the right position in the centre. A low frequency gives the goalie the time to reposition himself at the post and prepare himself for the next run. Whereas a high frequency does not give the goalie the time to reposition himself to the post. This results in two options for you as a goalie. The first one is that you only consider every second shot that increases the time to reposition yourself. This is very useful when the training does not allow a lower frequency but you want to train especially the movement from post to centre. The second option is that you focus on the final position and skip the slide from post to centre. The concentration stays at the perfect positioning and adaption of the position related to the oncoming field player.
Here are two options to modify this exercise
- Merry goes round - double time
- This version doubles the frequency of shots
- One run needs 4 field players
- It is the same procedure as the normal version. However 2 field players without a ball run the semi circle with a short delay from the same corner
- Once the first field player buckles and runs towards the goal, he gets a pass and the passed field player starts the semi circle
- Merry goes round – tight
- It is the same procedure as the normal version. However the semi circle is closer to the goal
- This minimizes the reaction time for the goalie to bring himself in the perfect position
Last words
Depending on the frequency of the exercise, the goalie can train the whole motion sequence or only the part of saving the ball in the right position in the centre. A low frequency gives the goalie the time to reposition himself at the post and prepare himself for the next run. Whereas a high frequency does not give the goalie the time to reposition himself to the post. This results in two options for you as a goalie. The first one is that you only consider every second shot that increases the time to reposition yourself. This is very useful when the training does not allow a lower frequency but you want to train especially the movement from post to centre. The second option is that you focus on the final position and skip the slide from post to centre. The concentration stays at the perfect positioning and adaption of the position related to the oncoming field player.
