Gloves Up
All drills

Straight At You

Handling, Shot stopping. About 7 minutes.

Keepers tonight
KKeeper working SServer or team-mate AAttacker KWaiting
Knee behind the ball
  1. Set, then step into line with the ball.
  2. Turn a little side on. One knee goes down beside your other heel.
  3. No gap: knee and foot make a wall behind your hands.
  4. Little fingers together, scoop it up into your chest.
How it is set up

Setup. Keeper in goal. Two servers 10 metres out, side by side, a ball each. Servers work on their feet while the keeper works on their hands.

How it runs. Servers take turns to pass firmly along the ground, straight at the keeper. Get a knee down behind every one, gather it, then roll it back to the server's feet. The server takes a first touch out of their feet with one foot and plays the next ball with the other. Ten each, then swap. Score it: a clean hold is two points, a spill you recover is one, a spill the other server scores from is none.

Coaching points

  1. Knee behind the ball. Step into line, turn a little side on, and put one knee down next to the heel of your other foot.
  2. No gap between the knee and the foot. If the ball gets past your hands, it hits your leg.
  3. Hands in front of the knee, little fingers together, palms open. Scoop it up into your chest.
  4. Lean forward over it as you gather, so a spill drops in front of you, where you can fall on it.
  5. Servers: this is your footwork practice. Receive with one foot, pass with the other, and swap feet every few balls.

Make it harder. Alternate which knee goes down. Then the ball is hit harder and the keeper stays on their feet, with feet together, and scoops it. Then the second server follows in every shot looking for a rebound.

With 4 keepers. Keeper, two servers, one resting.

We do this in session 1, The Basics.