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By Jude Felix Sebastian Published on: Tue Mar 8, 2022
From the dribble position, keep your shoulder pointed towards the target – wherever you want to push the ball to. With the blade of your stick behind the ball, roll and release it when it’s midway between your feet. Stop the follow-through motion of the stick as soon as your hands or the stick cross your left leg.
Former Indian National Team Captain, Arjuna and Dronacharya Awardee, your coach has capped over 250 matches, including 2 Olympics, 2 World Cups, 2 Asian Games, and 3 Champions Trophy tournaments. He is the founder of Jude Felix Hockey Academy and brings 22 years of coaching experience.
The dribble and forehand run are useful techniques for travelling the field with the ball. But when you need to pass to a teammate or maybe even score a goal, you need to know how to push the ball towards the target. This is quite a versatile move as you’ll appreciate when you read on and practise. Here’s how to go about it.
Before beginning the push, you need to maintain the right posture. Similar to the dribble posture, keep your legs apart at shoulder-width distance and your knees slightly bent forward from the back. The primary difference here is that your shoulder should more or less be facing or pointing towards the target – that is wherever you want to push the ball to.
The correct position for the ball is in line with your right foot at a distance that’s neither too far nor too close to your feet. You need to discover that optimum length such that the ball is easily accessible with the stick but at the same time not hindering or restricting your movement in any way.
With the blade of your hockey stick behind the ball, roll the ball, releasing it when it is midway between your feet. Stop the follow-through motion of the stick as soon as your hands or the stick cross your left leg. When you hear single step and push, double step or shuffle and push, know that they all follow this very same pushing technique. With the ball in the same position as before, roll it, take one step forward, push the ball, look towards the target and release it. For double step or shuffling and pushing the ball, the only difference is that you take two steps instead of one.
For group practise, there’s a fun learning exercise that could turn into a competition of sorts. Choose a line on the ground and standing about 10 yards apart from each other, try to push the ball hard on each whistle. Whosever ball crosses the line first is the winner in this case.
Pushing the ball is only one half of the coin, knowing when and how to stop it effortlessly is just as important. Read on to learn more about that.
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