Fascination and Supplement Indoor Hockey Indoor Hockey Fascination

Fascination and Supplement Indoor Hockey

Indoor Hockey

Fascination Many goals / High result Interesting score No midfield play Always decisions, if entering / defending the D Goalscoring / goalkeeping Final actions, actions with hard consequence Quick actions, quick re-actions Many decisions, many surprises Skillful artistic Admiration, Amazement

Learning process More calculable More control More skill than strength Indoor hockey pitch/team is the same size as outdoor small pitch hockey for children.

Goals To score a goal is very important in order to … … motivate players … greater self-confidence … compare yourself with other … create competition strategy

History Traditionally Hockey is linked with Tennis In winter time it was neither able to play Hockey on snow, nor to play tennis They put water on a tennis pitch and it became frozen This was the first indoor pitch in Germany School facilities are available. Better than outdoor. Hockey as a school sport starts in primary school at 7 Indoor is more spectaculary. You can celebrate third half independent of wether.

Attributes of Hockey Outdoor and Indoor

Differences Between outdoor and indoor hockey Rules Pitch / Requirements Skills Team Tactics Speed

Pitches Indoor is … smaller no side outline 36– 44 m 18 - 2 m no 25 line no space from D to the side the goal is on the line. ca. 90 m 55 m

Rules no high ball (except scoring) no hitting no lie down (3 points)

More importance for indoor hockey Skills passing: to push, to catapult scoring: to flick, to lift receiving: in speed, stick on bottom, second touch defending: to block conducting: control, one step point elemination: more fakes, out of slow speed Everything with fake and optinal withou pre-swing

Tactics Narrow space means quick actions More importance for indoor hockey Good observation means quick reactions Optimum speed means to play with slow and high speed Timing is: to be on time at the right place Patience is: to wait for the right moment Planing is: to use in the same situation the same plan with your team-mates

Team Eleven-a-side Six-a-side Each player more ball contacs Quicker game Substitute players only at special occasions More team sport

Speed to create speed to explode into speed to accelerate speed to reduce speed to stop speed to change directions to approach with speed to adapt speed to the skill to adapt speed to the tactical demand to be speedful in skills To be good in speed means to use the optimum kind of speed in a special tactical situation