Try Again Dribble Challenge
Composure & Resilience
Legend
- player
- coach / parent
- movement path
How it works
Build resilience and composure by encouraging young players to immediately try again after any mistake in a dribbling challenge.
What you need
- field hockey stick
- field hockey ball
- cones
Your focus
At age 6-9, the most important resilience skill is the willingness to try again without giving up. Normalizing repeated attempts removes the shame from mistakes and builds persistence. Celebrating restarts as bravery develops a growth mindset.
Set up a tricky moving with the ball course with tight gates (stick widths only).
When a player's ball goes through a gate incorrectly, they reset to that gate and try again.
Coach celebrates every restart: 'Great resilience!'
Players track how many gates they complete successfully across 5 minutes.
Helpful cues
- Try again is always the right choice
- Every mistake is a step closer to getting it right
- Show me your bounce-back face!
Adjust the challenge
Make it easier
Strip it back
Widen the gates to make success more frequent.
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Add the next challenge
Add a 30-second time limit and see how far they get before resetting.No account needed
Build a practice plan
Add drills, keep the plan in this browser, then share a link with your staff or parents.This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.
This library helps you find the right drill. Inside UpLVL the right drill finds the player.After every practice, UpLVL automatically surfaces the drills each player needs to work on most. See it for yourself.