# The Hockey Site

> Built for field hockey coaches who'd rather understand the game than copy someone else's session plan.

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## Posts
- [Practical Approaches to Building Mental Toughness in Field Hockey Teams](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/practical-approaches-to-building-mental-toughness-in-field-hockey-teams): Coaching resilience when the season is on the line. What Tin Matkovic's masterclass reveals about preparing teams for the do-or-die moments
- [What is game intelligence](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/what-is-game-intelligence): How to develop and train game intelligence
- [No GK coach? No problem!](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/no-gk-coach-no-problem): A field hockey coach's guide with some ideas to developing junior goalkeepers without a specialist on the touchline.
- [Why your best players still need to train the basics](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/why-your-best-players-still-need-to-train-basic-skills): What a masterclass on technical skills teaches us about mastery, motivation, and the coach's real job.
- [Start with their hands](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/start-with-their-hands): Why grip, the left hand and ball carrying are the quiet foundations every junior skill is built on according to these field hockey coaches
- [Ubuntu meets GRIT](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/ubuntu-meets-grit): Building championship field hockey teams through community and perseverance
- [Build up from under a high press](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/build-up-from-under-a-high-press): Masterclass by Shea McAleese from New Zealand
- [Coachability](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/coachability): In his masterclass Shea McAleese (NZL) explains why he believes coachability is a decision, not a personality trait.
- [Outletting against an aggressive half-court press](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/outletting-against-an-aggressive-half-court-press): Looking at outletting from the defenders point of view and coach patterns that actually hold up vs half court press
- [Those final 5 minutes in the game](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/those-final-5-minutes-in-the-game): Closing out games: tactical choices in the last 5 minutes of your field hockey game
- [Off ball running for strikers](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/off-ball-running-for-strikers): Why a striker's most valuable work often happens when the ball is somewhere else
- [Building a team that plays fast](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/building-a-team-that-plays-fast): Quick restarts and the Self-Pass
- [Elimination has many layers](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/elimination-has-many-layers): Tin Matkovic, Croatian coach working in the German Bundesliga, shared his thoughts on the many layers in elimination in field hockey: elimination is a toolbox, not a trick.
- [The collective beats the collection](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/the-collective-beats-the-collection): The Knicks 🏀 are 1 win from their first NBA title in 53 years, and they're doing it without a megastar. What can field hockey 🏑 coaches take from that?
- [Receiving on the move](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/receiving-on-the-move): Closing the drill-to-match gap for receiving in field hockey
- [The 5-Second Counter-Press](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/the-5-second-counter-press): Turning Lost Balls into Scoring Chances
- [Statistical analysis... in a different way (1/3)](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/statistical-analysis-in-a-different): The introduction of a series of 3 masterclasses about statistical analysis of the women's games in Paris by Simon Blanford 
- [Aerials in women's hockey today](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/aerials-in-women-s-hockey-today): Evolving aerial skills in women’s field hockey: techniques, pressing and game impact with Glenn Simpson, head coach for the U21 women of Belgium.
- [Defending long corners](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/defending-long-corners): The long corner could very well be the most neglected set piece at training
- [The power of a team according to Jeroen Delmee](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/the-power-of-a-team-according-to-jeroen-delmee): Believe in the power of the team. Then find the courage to actually pick it.
- [Team. Trust. Culture.](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/team-trust-culture): What can we learn from those teams and team leaders in real high pressure situations to apply to our field hockey teams. We asked Cedric De Vlieger from the Special Units in the Federal Police.
- [Creating and exploiting overloads](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/creating-and-exploiting-overloads): About recognising the overloads and the numbers game in attack
- [Stop ball-watching. Start defending](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/stop-ball-watching-start-defending): Why your U12s all chase the ball, and how to slowly, patiently, get them to defend as a team
- [Smarter PCD](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/smarter-pcd): Penalty Corner Defence: Organising Your Last Line
- [One Down](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/one-down): Masterclass by Fede Tanuscio for strategies and drills for One Down scenarios in field hockey, a.k.a. underloads
- [Coach less. Teach more.](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/coach-less-teach-more): Stop explaining. Start designing. A practical guide to constraints-led coaching, with the scoring trick that does the work for you.
- [Attack the left foot](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/attack-the-left-foot): Where the stick can't reach: building attacks on the defender's weak side
- [Balancing Skill Gaps](https://subscriber.thehockeysite.com/p/balancing-skill-gaps): Training & motivating mixed-level field hockey squads - a masterclass by Tin Matkovic