Bounce Back Relay
Resilience
Legend
- player
- coach / parent
- movement path
How it works
Build resilience by practicing an immediate positive response after making a mistake in a team relay drill.
What you need
- field hockey sticks
- field hockey ball
- cones
Your focus
The bounce-back speed after a mistake is a trainable resilience skill. Young players who have a practiced positive response return to performance faster. Team relay format adds light social pressure that mirrors the feeling of a game mistake.
Relay race; if a player's ball goes out of their lane, they retrieve it and continue, no stopping.
Coach calls out 'bounce back!' when a player makes an error; the player must respond 'I'm back!' and immediately re-engage.
After the relay, count: how many bounce-backs happened and how fast were they?
Celebrate the fastest bounce-backs as much as the winning relay team.
Helpful cues
- Mistakes happen, bounce back fast
- 'I'm back' means you're in the game
- The fastest response to a mistake wins
Adjust the challenge
Make it easier
Strip it back
Coach runs alongside to help with retrieval.
UpLVL it
Add the next challenge
Add a time penalty for bouncing back slowly.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.