GENERAL SKILLS ADVICE

A New Kind of Hockey Skating

By | February 5, 2022

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Designing Puck-skill Hockey Drills

By | January 31, 2022

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Big Ball Keepaway for a Mental Distraction

By | January 21, 2022

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Passing Basics in Hockey

By | December 29, 2021

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Improving Your Wrist Shot Mechanics

By | December 28, 2021

For an awful lot of years, I’ve felt that a puck and opponents can distract from a player’s concentration as he or she is drilling. (Wait until you see the positional drill I invented years ago!) This segment, however, is all about a player’s wrist (or sweep) shot mechanics, and it gives me the chance to show you how removing a puck from a drill helps my players focus purely on a movement… As a brief aside here, I’ve mentioned elsewhere about how I frequently invent new drills. The current topic is a great example, but it actually stems from…

Put REAL Muscle in Your Hockey Shot!

By | December 27, 2021

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Rocket Man (and Asymmetrics)

By | December 15, 2021

In the event you didn’t yet see the following video, let me first introduce the so-called “Rocket Man”… Well, you’re there now — at the described link, and I’m about to tell you more… Now, I believe I came across the term “asymmetric” (as in movements) in something I read or heard from the late, great hockey analyst, Howie Meeker. It was sometime during the early 1970s, I believe, when he used that term to describe the reasoning behind a drill the old Soviets were doing during their on-ice warmups. I don’t think he was sure at first glance, but…

Studying Alexander Ovechkin

By | December 10, 2021

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Screens & Deflections

By | December 7, 2021

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Ideas to Quicken the Wrist Shot

By | December 4, 2021

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