Youth Hockey Manual

Work on this manual started some 10 years ago when as one of 5 coaches at St. Albans HC Youth Section Simon was asked to come up with a programme for the Sunday morning coaching sessions for all the age groups. The idea was to provide cover and information on sessions to Level 1 Coaches and senior players assisting on Sunday. The Championship Coaching sessions came as a result of Simon being asked by the Borough of Welwyn and Hatfield to be their lead coach. The new Assessment sessions came from Simon's work as manger /Coach for Hertfordshire County sides. The collection of skills continues.

The manual is in the form a cd and consist of 3 sections:

A timetable for a youth section of a hockey club or a school; a separate time table for a Championship Coaching group; and new for Version 5 an Assessment or Summer Camp Timetable
A set of Coach Session Programme Sheets: These are broken down into 4 groups:
- 1 hour programmes
- 2 hour programmes
- Championship Coaching 2 hour programmes
- Goalkeeping programmes
- Assessment/Summer Camp programmes
A set of Skills Sheets: The skills have either been collected by me from sources such the English Hockey Association, the Scottish Hockey Association, other coaches or have been devised by myself. Acknowledgement as to source is to be found on the skill page. These are divided up into the following skill groupings:
- Introduction to Hockey
- Warm Ups and Warm Downs
- Running with The Ball
- Moving The Ball
- Passing The Ball
- Beating a Player
- Goal Scoring
- Goal Keeping
- Closing Down and Tackling
- Dead Ball Situations
- Circuits
- Skills Tests
- Small Games
- Tactics

There are links between the timetables and the Coach Session Sheets, and between the Coach Session Sheets and the Skill Sheets. It should be noted that not all the Skill Sheets are related to a Coach Session Sheet; this is because some skills are more advanced or can be used as alternatives.

To look at a sample of the manual, please click here. A Demonstration Disk is also available, please contact Simon for more information.

Please click here to order or ask for Simon to contact you.