Field Hockey Passing & Receiving Practice Plan for 9 and 10 Year Olds

Gates measure the pushes, the wall supplies the volume, and traps learn to land ready. The tireless teammate takes the featured role.

Wall pushes and traps at rhythm from ten feet, follows graded, one minute; then partner cycles. The economy warms.

Pushes through a two-foot gate from twelve feet, ten per side of the body (the open-stance push and the beginnings of passing off both feet), seven-of-ten narrowing the gate. The follow aims; the gate grades.

Pushes at called targets (cones, the wall's bricks), the call before the push, eight calls. Direction's decisions join accuracy's habit.

The tireless teammate: continuous push-trap rallies (the return trapped, repositioned to the carry spot, pushed again), ninety seconds, rest, twice more, cycles counted and logged. The wall never misplaces; every wobble is honest information.

The positioning skill: returns trapped TO the carry position (the ball dying at the stick's nose, dribble-ready: not underfoot, not behind), ten traps graded on where the ball sits. Received-ready is the first touch's whole job.

The future's passes: the parent walks a line, pushes LED so ball and stick arrive together (shin-passes early, trailing ones late: clock information, called kindly), eight leads each direction. Passing to futures begins.

One rally-best attempt, the book (gates, rally counts, ready grades) filed. Standards log.

What to watch today: traps dying underfoot. The ready-position law (the ball cushioned to the carry spot) converts receiving into offense, and lazy traps park balls where dribbles can't start: the graded where-it-sits keeps the standard. Received-ready at 10 is the first-touch fame of 14.