Cambridge Bike polo Drill nights?

Since polo has become a little bit slack on thursday nights and only a hand full of people turn up (lucky to get 6) Me and Rvs talk in the pub came to the conclusion that thursday should become a drill night. As throw ins are fun, they seemingly do not improve game play past the point it has got and drills will help develop peoples existing games and help develop new comers play.

We were thinking about trying a few technical drills, defensive, offensive, team and individual drills. Of course this night is open to all ideas, if someone knows of any good drills or training patterns that could help and improve game play they would be more than happily be incorporated into the night.

i am happy to start the drill night off, Showing and talking about things we could practise, looking at existing peoples play and how it can be developed. Maybe talking straights and weaknesses and how they can be improved.

What do people think?

Post your ideas-------

Thanks Josh :)

I think its a winner:

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in, we could make it like a football training session. do certain drills etc for majority of time then play a couple of throw ins at end to test new drills.

Sounds great. I won't be able to make every one but I'm certainly interested. Time to try out that sweet move you saw at that tournament/in that Vimeo clip etc.

Great thread Josh, definately up for joining in.

I would come, would really help me progress

Sounds great. I won't be able to make every one but I'm certainly interested. Time to try out that sweet move you saw at that tournament/in that Vimeo clip etc.

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super dick Seattle two person mallet hack reference.

So I was thinking tomorrow night, Drills from 7.30-8.30 then some throw ins after....
what do people think, I have quite a few things i want us to try, but if people have some ideas then that would be great.....

what are your ideas?

Looking at Individual play to start-ball control, position etc-run a few drills on that
Then team play, again some positioning stuff and then run a few game drills.
then full on game play that includes some of the stuff we tried-drill game, not just standard throw ins.

I reckon I have about 8 different drills we could try, but don't want people to get bored, or things to get a bit chaotic-if everyone wants to do this it will be great, if a few people dont then it won't work.

i always rate the passing/shooting game for 4-6 players. 3 passes before you can shoot on goal, once you cross the line. a saved goal, intercepting a pass, shooting off target and tapping out resets the passing score to nil. seems to keep the game play flowing rather than the charge-up-court-as-fast-as-possible-and-shoot style.

also for 2 players: playing half court with two cones. you have to hit your opponents single cone to score. i played this with a few different people last summer at barnwell and it was surprisingly fun and really helped with accuracy and positioning.

i was on my own for half an hour yesterday before people arrived and i practised doing circuits of the court behind both goals, tucking in to the barriers as fast as possible while holding the ball steady on my mallet (not bouncing it off of it, but keeping it 'stuck' to the shuffle side).

I am particularly interested in dick moves that are legal within the current ruleset.

#jokes

I am particularly interested in dick .

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You should be fine Matt, Josh is running the show. #japes

This is so funny. We are all so funny.

one page? thanks for the games chaps!

Guys would you be up for getting these drill nits going again. Ali and I could do with some help improving before ladies army and this is a really good way to do it. I have asked one of the London players what they used to do in their drill nights as I haven't got a clue of the content.

i am up for it. we had a good thing going where each week one of us would plan a nights activities (usually a couple of training drills then put what you have learnt into a pickup game) but no one new really turns up anymore! i dont mind doing it again but i feel we need more new people

I feel i could do with these. I dont think its necessary to have new players all the time for them to work, just players that are better than others, sharing some knowledge.

I did a couple, not sure what the general feeling is or any feedback ?

I really would like to do this, but i feel unless everyone is on the same page (wanting to do drills and not getting bored) then it does not really work.
I fell like thursday is the best day for drills, because like you say newbies come and want to try and learn as fast as possible, it is also good for old players as they can learn new things and learn from each other, styles of play, learning to defend and attack different styles of play.
I would love to get a night going, but only if people that turn up are willing to listen and learn, otherwise it is a waste of time.
would be good if we do as luca says and each do a night of different drills.

Cool...Ali and I are definitely in. As you know we both work funny shifts so we can't make every Thursday. Maybe if a couple of us take the session that way there's less pressure on one person to make it good and also more knowledge and ideas?