Field Hockey Shooting Practice Plan for 11 and 12 Year Olds
At 11 and 12, the shooting family grows under law: the HIT shot (the controlled backswing's scoring edition: short back, flat through, low follow, space checked), the SWEEP (the low sweeping strike: the circle's workhorse), traffic's introduction (shots THROUGH obstacles: the deflected world's preview), and percentages maturing.
This session runs about an hour. Safety's frame governs every swing (this file's hits obey passing's same law), the push and sweep carry accuracy's crown, and the family's jobs get taught: push for precision, sweep for quick power, hit for the big arrival.
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What is the sweep shot and why the workhorse crown?
The low sweeping strike: stick traveling flat along the ground, the ball swept with a short firm swing: quicker than hits, harder than pushes, releasable off carries. Most real goals at every level ride it: the crown is earned by volume, and the low-path law keeps it legal and lethal.
How does traffic training work at home?
Cone forests: shots threaded through gap's at called corners: the crowded circle's preview. The threading habit (shooting through, not just at) builds the release real goals demand: legs and sticks crowd every real chance, and the forest rehearses it kindly.
How do hits and sweeps split the power jobs?
By time and size: the hit (short backswing's big arrival) when time allows, the sweep (no backswing's quick power) when it doesn't: which is most of the time. The pairing's narrated choices build the striker's instinct: tools by jobs, forever.