This video clip is from our Monday practice when I was coaching college women. On Monday we did Role 1 – individual offensive skills. This is a circuit with moves at one end, a cross ice game in the middle with modified rules and Gaston had a skating technique group at the other end. After this practice we went to the gym and did spin class on the bikes or plyo's.
Tuesday we did Role 3 ind. defensive skills, Wednesday Role 2, team offensive skills and Thursday Role 4, team defensive skills. This enabled me to progress through the skills all season . It worked pretty well with a 71% winnig average over 5 years and in the finals all but one with 2 championships.
You will notice the girl's have trouble with the finer moves because most stick handle with the bottom hand dominant and hands too close to the body. Most of them are also too stiff in the upper body and have trouble shifting the weight and separating the movement of the upper and lower body. When you are teaching puck handling emphasis good mechanics early because it is very difficult to relearn this when you are a young adult.
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B5 Puck Handling Moves All Around the Body
Key Points:
Make big moves, use fakes, keep your hands away from your body. The top hand does the finer moves and bottom hand slides up and down the stick in unison. Use all of the stick blade backhand and forehand. Hold the stick with the fingers and the little finger of the top hand makes small adjustments. Players mirror the moves the coach makes.
Description:
1.Yo-yo puck on the forehand and stick toe.
2.Toe drag puck across on the forehand.
3.Forehand toe drag + pull in, shift weight.
4.Circle in and out on the forehand.
5.Stick to skate and back all around body.
6.Back toe drag yo-yo then across body.
7.Circle the body with the puck and the stick.
8.Repeat all the moves skating around the zone and add escape moves like a tight turn and skating backward with the puck. 9.Players go full speed in chaos for 5".
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B3 – Puck Handling Around the Body – Jim-College W
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