Drag flicking stages shown in videos

Derek E. Pappas Copyright © 2016

Drag flicking stages shown in videos


Drag flicking videos

•The drag flicking videos below have hints about what to do during each phase if you listen to what the coaches and players are saying.

•The drag flick is incredibly complex.

•Watch the videos in slow motion on Youtube. Use the youtube settings to slow the video down to the slowest.


Breakdown Drills

• Breaking down the drag flick into its various components allows the player to work on specific aspects of the drag flick


The run up

•The run up a short first step to adjust to the misdirected push out, followed by several steps.

•This is IMPORTANT: the last step with the right foot prior to placing the left foot next to the ball must be 90 degrees to the path of the ball and parallel to the end line

•This starts the counter rotation prior to the crossover


The ball pickup

•The pickup (watch Minki in the video below) the right elbow is on top of the left arm and stays there until the RIGHT hand lowers to push the stick away from the feet.

•Hint you will drag the ball several feet in the pickup position.

•Look at the left foot positions in the various videos below.

•One important point is that the stick stays 9 degrees to the path ball


The reverse rotation after pickup and during the crossover

•BEND the right leg as close to 90 degrees as you can handle prior to the cross over and keep it bent

•Watch Blake Govers in the video below and keep the head down.

•Don’t straighten the right leg or lift up the head or lean backwards.

•You won’t be able to drive into the big step with the left foot if you make any of these mistakes.


Delay moving the ball•Note that the ball is not moved immediately after pickup.

•The body moves down the line while the upper body counter rotates.

•That is correct a second counter rotation (the first was during the right step prior to ball pickup

• This is why the angle of the stick for some drag flickers is 45 degrees over the ball looking from the ball side

•Watch the videos and you will see what I mean.


The right foot cross over (in front or back or the left foot)

•Watch Blake Govers in the video below

•Find a video of Gonzalo for an example of the front crossover


The drag

•Watch Govers and Minki in the video below.

•IMPORTANT: Use the spring created in the right leg (by bending the right knee 90 degrees during the crossover step a spring is created) to push off and make a big step to the left


The big left foot step after the crossover

•Watch Govers and Paumen in the videos below

•The step should not be too big and should put the player in a left left lunge position.

•Some players push off with enough force that during the drag their right foot is off the ground at release.

•Others have both feet on the ground at release.


The right hand moves the stick down

•The right hand moves towards the ground but not forwards (keep the stick at 90 degrees to the line the ball is traveling down) when the big left step is initiated after the crossover step.

• The lowering of the hands while keeping the stick perpendicular to the line of the ball, while maintaining the drag position until midpoint between the feet in order to keep the ball behind the hands so that maximum power can be generated when the flicking/push part of the motion is initiated. (watch the drills in the Lehnn Aiyyapa video in the video below)


Forward stick rotation during the drag phase

•Angle the stick down

• Compress the ball into the turf

•This keeps the ball rolling straight along the line towards goal and also rolls the ball up the stick further


Pulling the hands in opposite directions

•Increase the tension on the stick and roll the ball further up the stick by pulling the hands in opposite directions


Setting the right wrist at 90 degrees to the stick

•Watch Blake Govers in the video below to see how set up the flick/push


Releasing the right hand/arm through the ball

•At release the left shoulder should be touching the left knee (Gonzalo)


Rotating the stick around the body without pulling or pushing it away from the body.

•Think of a clock hand that is rotating around a center point

•Watch Govers and Hayward in the videos below

•Don’t let the left hand get too far ahead of the right hand

•You will slide the stick across the ball and lose power.

•Release through the ball.


Follow through footwork

•Spinning on the left foot while swinging the right foot around the left foot to rotate the body 180 degrees.

•This is really important so that the left knee/hip/lower back is not torqued with a planted left foot or a right leg swinging behind the left foot.

•Watch Govers and Hayward in the video below


Points to remember•How to hold the stick

•Watch the Blake Govers video)

•The ball rolls in a straight line

•Some of the best drag flickers prior to loading the right wrist up to 90 degrees relative to the stick will rotate the stick forwards 30 degrees and actually compress the ball into the ground

•Find the Zeller Adidas drag flicking tape-you can see the ball get compressed.


Learning the drag flick the phases of the drag flick separately

•I got the idea of breaking it down into phase training from the Lehnn Aiyyapa video listed below.

•The drag/flick the phases can be broken into the footwork/body part and the arm hands components

•Lehnn Aiyyapa in his video concentrates on the arm and hand motion.

•One thing he does not do (this video is from a few years back) is emphasize the forward rotation of the hands after the hands are lowered.

•Watch Minki, Gonzalo, Glover, or German drag flickers. They are rotating their hands forwards.

•This compresses the ball into the ground to keep the ball going down the line by changing the angle of the face of the stick through the forwards rotation.


Links to drag flicking videos.


Blake Govers video.

•He puts very little torque on the left leg. he rates around the ball and keeps the stick in the same relative position to his body through out the flick.

•https://youtu.be/H5p2ROiRw60

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Lehnn Aiyyapa video

•Show how the hands lower during the drag flick

•And how the stick slides out to “roll” the ball up the stick while the ball travels in a straight line.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztiHfc6La_c

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Lehnn Aiyyapa-drills for the drag portion of the skillWatch the drills in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztiHfc6La_c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztiHfc6La_c


The orange platform

•Used at clubs in Holland to train players to get the ball off of the ground

•Notice the uneven right edge that is designed to train players to “roll” the ball up the stick.

•I don’t agree with using the platforms.

•There is no platform during the game.

•I think that the player should learn the motion through correct repetition.

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Mink van der Weerden

•Talks about the need to maintain the pickup position for as long as possible before setting the wrists and elbows.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7SM9a974gQ

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Jeramy Hayward Drag Flick technique.

• Australian hockey player shares his skills.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lYxB3T230

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Gonzalo Peillat

•Has an alternative crossover step.

•His right foot goes in front of his left.

•https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wtQAuUs-eU

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Short Corner Clinic June 2009

• Bert Bunnick - Dider Meijer Part 1 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNsjA45qulM

• Bert Bunnick - Dider Meijer Part 3 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD42cpy-Pio

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Drag flicking stages shown in videos