Ryde Hockey: The Defensive Press

Ryde Hockey Club Women's 1st Grade Coach John Cullen discusses the principles of the press, an important defensive structure in hockey where the defending team pressures the team in possession high up the pitch in an attempt to deny all passes and force a turnover

[@529mt]

i recently found your chanle and i love it! this is the best coaching ive had in a while and it really helps just to go over the basics again!
please can you do a video on a white bord for short cornor routiens my team has a flicker and a hitter but they only ever shoot direct and achive very little succses. some simple ideas or routiens would help a lot. or even a writen meeseage would mean alot thanks for the great videos keep it up!

[@coachingdirector]

We'll add some short corner videos in future but in the meantime my advice would be to keep your corner variations simple. The most effective variations involve deflections so the most important thing is to get your attackers to the right areas in the circle. Get 1 to the right post, 1 to just right of the spot, 1 to just left of the spot and the injector to just outside the left post. This gives you 4 deflected variations that are very hard to defend provided you execute well. I hope this helps

[@spikeannoyed]

How does the arrowhead give more passing options into midfield channels?? Surely it cuts those channels out?

[@ronaldkingio]

On the full press. Where is the right winger in that clip? When playing against the 4 defenders.

[@sebakrug7]

Depending on where you want the ball. If you want to create a fake-space for the left defender (who is playing in our forhand) the rightwinger is lower. you press 45°