with Tjerk Van Herwaarden,
University of Maryland Technical Director/Coach.
Helped lead Maryland to three national championships in four years (2005-08); USA Men's National team assistant coach (2009 Pan American Games silver medalists), Coached current World and Olympic Champions during his tenure in the Netherlands.
Tjerk Van Herwaarden diagrams and explains 30 drills for field hockey in the areas of basic skills, defense, team basics and goal scoring. Van Herwaarden discusses a variety of things to emphasize in your training: developmental phases for building skills, how to improve your players' technical skills and how to determine your coaching emphasis. Beginning with the basic skills, Van Herwaarden guides you through drills in the areas of dribbling and passing. Van Herwaarden follows that with defensive drills that work on channeling, jabbing, tackling, double teams and team defense. Building on these elements, Van Herwaarden shares drills for team basics featuring 2 vs. 1 and 3 vs. 2 drills. Van Herwaarden wraps up this instructional field hockey DVD with goal scoring drills that work on the reverse hit, footwork and scoring, endline scoring, bridge scoring, 1 vs. 1 scoring and rebound scoring. With the theory and explanation of these drills, you will be able to build your practices to turn your team into a championship team.
2009.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
I purchased this video for my 13y/o daughter who wanted to pick up the sport this summer in preparation for HS next year. I was fully expecting to see video tape of coaches providing actual on-field instruction and kids going through drills in an active manner. It was NOTHING like I expected. Instead my daughter and I ended up watching a coach essentially READ about 45 minutes from a simple MS Power Point presentation through the WHOLE DVD!!!!! Not ONCE was there even the SITE of a field, an active player, a stick, a ball, a goal... NOTHING!!! It was honestly the very WORST purchase I have EVER made on line...EVER! I have just requested a refund or a credit or something from the company who shipped it, and I HOPE they agree to something because this video was a TOTAL waste of time. I would not recommend it to anyone... and for that matter would not GIVE IT to anyone for FREE. Embarrassing product! :( Very, VERY disappointing!!!
