Hockey: 2nd Session - Afu

Yesterday us year 8's had another session of Hockey with Carly. First we started re-visioning the skills we practiced. One of the skills we practiced was dribbling the ball with our hockey stick. But the catch was, when Carly yelled out 'SWITCH!' then we had to switch with someone with the same color hockey stick as us. Some other things we did to was bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as many times we can and bouncing the hockey ball on our stick as long as we can without letting the ball drop. My favourite game I played was Shark because I liked whacking other peoples balls out of their hockey sticks.

First Session - Hockey

Today for kiwi sport we had Mel taught us some basic skills for hockey, we played a game first called bull rush. The couch picked 3 people to go into the middle, then they had to call out something (e.g. Run if you are wearing a red jacket ) then you have to try and run to the other side, but if they touched you you will have to stay still and try and tag the rest of the people. It was a good warm up to get us started for hockey. Then we had to go to the hockey sticks and stand behind them, when everyone was behind one we had to go and get a ball from the bag. Then the mentor then showed us one of the basic skills, which is called dribbling. We had to hold the top of the stick with our left hand, then hold the coloured bit with our right hand, we had to move the ball side to side with the hockey stick. Then we had played a game called traffic lights, there was 6 different colours. Green - dribble the ball, Orange - stand still and move the ball side to side with the stick, Red - stop and make sure the ball is still, Purple - move backwards while dribbling the ball, Silver - dribble the ball fast, Blue - use the stick to move the ball by spinning. When we played that we had to play a game of hockey, we had to try and get the ball in between the cones. Then we had to hold the ball in our right hand, and the stick in our left hand, then we had to throw the ball and hit it with the stick. I enjoyed our first session of hockey.