Practical about practice

I will try to outline how our training is and hope that others teams will contribute to this. After all, the sport isn't that big. And we all can learn something from eachother.

bsi-BOBLEN train 3 times a week for a total of 5 hours in the pool. Though not all members of the team train that much. Training out of the pool is up to each player, but strongly suggested. The A-team consists of 19 players, and we have about 10-14 players on a training.

Play and play some more

We found that the best way to learn the game is to play. Espescially when we are enough players to fill two teams (12 persons). So the major part of our training is playing. Besides that technic is essential. We get that by playing one-touch and five-aside as we warm up in the pool, and with goal exercises during breaks in the usual play.

One-touch

One-touch means that we should pass the ball on as fast as possible, using only one touch on the ball. Everybody is on the same 'team' so there is no fighting for the ball, and we do not use the goals. The clue is to have desided on where to pass the ball before you recive it. This makes the game go faster, and you train your eye to see where your team players are positioned at all times.

Five-a-side

Five-aside is two teams competing for the ball, but we use no goals. The object is to keep the ball within the team. This forces the other team to cover up free players (forscheking) so that the person with the ball don't have anyone to pass to. This gives the player attacking him enough time to recapture the ball. This gives very good practice in keeping the ball, making our team continiously swim in new possitions and it is also excelent training in recapuring a ball.

Goal-training

During the normal training we take breaks (5-15 min) in which we do penalty shots or arrange all possible situations on attacking the goal. For instance: two or three players attack one goalkeeper and a defening back. This breaks serve two purposes. One: We get quality goal training. Two: After a periode of playing one get tired. So the break restitues us, and we can start playing again with a higher intesity than we could maintain otherwise.

Plain swimming

Lastly we try to do some plain swimming (with all normal equipment). There is noting that is better condition training for UWR than swimming.