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Teaching Offensive

Skills

Coaching

Offensive Skills

Jon WestonThe Goalieman


Teaching Offensive

Skills Coaching Offensive Players

• Excellent athletes may play good lacrosse semi-automatically– Even these can be taught to be more effective

• Good athletes need some instruction/ guidance– YOU make the difference for a learning player– No one can help a closed minded one

• Spend time with the willing ones• New habits come hard, but repetitions work


Teaching Offensive

Skills Break It Down – Ten Points

1- Get Closer2- Look At Net, Behind look at crease guy3- Don’t Give Your Hands Away 4- Dodge with your Hips/Feet/Shoulder5- Shoot w/Hands BACK6- Change Planes7- Deception8- On The Move9- Efficient Cutter10-Great Ground Baller


Teaching Offensive

Skills 1- Get Closer

• Less time for goalie to react• Less time to shoot close to the goal

– Shot will be slower– Shoot past goalie– Small fakes work, especially in close

Shooter Distance from GoalMPH Yds/sec 6 yds 8 yds 10 yds 12 yds 14 yds

90 44 0.14 0.18 0.23 0.27 0.3280 39 0.15 0.20 0.26 0.31 0.3670 34 0.18 0.23 0.29 0.35 0.4160 29 0.20 0.27 0.34 0.41 0.4850 24 0.25 0.33 0.41 0.49 0.5740 20 0.31 0.41 0.51 0.61 0.72

should score too far outgood shots go definitely too far out

Shot Speed


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Skills 2- Look At Net

• Right Hand – Look Top Left• Left Hand – Look Top Right

• Goalie will Disappear • Holes will Appear

• Defender and Other Offensive Players Appear• Defender will back off to defend

feed,dodge,shot,pass• Behind – Look to Crease Man – Same Affect


Teaching Offensive

Skills

3- Don’t Give Your Hands Away

• Ball, Hands, Body, Defender, Goal• Keep your hands back away from D-

man• Dare them to go over top

– Learn to tuck and drive


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Skills 4 – Dodge

• Objective: Get by and get away from D– Explode for 3 hard steps after you go by

• Dodge with your Feet– Example – Split Dodge– From Center Middie point chest, toes, and hips at

the sideline to start with the stick and hands back (away from the goal)

– At the end hips, chest, toes and hips point at the other sideline after the split

– Step down field toward the goal as you pivot and then drive toward the goal

• Protect with you back


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4- Dodge with your Hips/Feet/Shoulder

• Split Dodge – Lazy D Man• Face Dodge – Stabbing D Man• Bull Dodge – Through the Head• Roll Dodge – Good D, Roll Away

– Snap HEAD AROUND or Double is Coming

• Fake Split & Go – Against Drop Steppers• Butt Dodge – Watch for Double

– Don’t use this much

• CoD and CoD Fake – Behind Goal– Finalizer is a sophisticated move– Learn the basics first

• Learn to carry with left and split to right – Then learn to carry with right and split to left


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Skills 5- Shoot w/Hands BACK

• (Point), Rock, Drive, Lift, Pull Down– Gary Gait – Use the Lever Action– Top hand is the pivot, bottom is power

• Separate the action from your hips

• American Grip

• Canadian Grip – Hides Ball


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Skills 6- Change Planes

• High to high needs speed• High to low needs accuracy• Low to low too easy to track• Low to hi hard to track• Right to left across goalie’s body

harder to move – combine with split dodge – left to right

• Left to right the same


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Skills 7- Deception

• Hide the Ball Behind your Helmet• Dip Shoulder and Shoot High• Raise Shoulder and Shoot Low• Drop Hands and Shoot High• ¼ Turn Fake• ¼ Turn Fake and Feed• Side arm shot shows the ball to the

goalie too long – avoid this unless in close (reaching around the keeper)


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Skills 8- On The Move

• 10 Ball Drill– Alternate left hand and right hand– Scoop at 12 yards - Hand close to plastic– Drive (step to goal –hands close to butt

end)– Shoot from 6 (Overhand)

• Do everything on the move– Scoop and shoot– Left hand then right hand

• Learn the Pitcher’s Followthru– Stargia / Dixon


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Skills 9- Efficient Cutter

• Cut right at the feeder• Catch the ball – make sure you get the ball• Look at Net – Find the spot to shoot at• Shoot to Net – shoot at net not the keeper• It is a rhythm:

– Catch…., Look…., Shoot….– Not catch, shoot, look

• SCREAM – “ONE MORE”– If the D slides to you because you talk then

someone else is even more open


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Skills 10-Great Ground Baller

• Hustle, 1st one there gets US the ball• HAND JUST BELOW PLASTIC• Your BUTT between you and other

player• PULL toward chest and step out• Step toward (turn to) your butt end side• Keep running• Practice, practice, practice• Then learn the one hand snag pick-up


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Skills 11 – Bonus - Backhand

• Three was to receive the ball– Stick side high – protect– Off-stick side high – rotate to receive– Over the shoulder

• Teach: Catching Over the Shoulder• Opens up the back door cut• Makes catching inside on the run easy• Makes defender play you• Catch backhand pass forehand


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Skills Drills• Circle split to pass (with a crease guy)• Circle roll to pass• Circle open hip to pass• Circle w/D roll to pass• Lazy Left/Right line (Split)• Aggressive D Left/Right Lines (Roll)• Drive to shoot Right/Left lines (Shoot net)• Feed Drills Left/Right• Backhand catch, forehand throw immediate• Give and go lines middie to attack• Give and go lines through X cross crease


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Skills Things That Beat Goalies• Accuracy to the Corners• Deception

– Hide the Ball– Change Planes– Body Language (Lean low, shoot high)

• Freeze the keeper– Fakes, motion

• Distractions– Motion – Shooters on the move– Split Dodge

• Move the Keeper– Passes– Sweeps


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Skills Basic Throwing

• Power Throwing – Top Hand Push– Takes lots of strength and practice– Bottom hand comes across the body– Chest/toes usually face the target

• Touch Throwing – Like an Attackman– Top hand at ear level or above– Chest/toes face perpendicular to target– Bottom Hand Lift and Pull Straight Down– Bottom hand stays on same side as top hand– Long touch passes easy, protects ball on ride

– Very powerful technique Gary Gait

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