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[the_chief1]

Heres a video from this morning. Just some movement drills, some shots, and rebound control. By the way, I'm 16 and I've been playing for a little over 4 years.

YouTube - Goalie Training

[LuckOfTheGoalie]

shots dont look that fast but nice work nevertheless

[madcow]

good job bud!
a few things i noticed which I think you need to work on are
-when you slide to the middle you didn't piviot, the slide is useless in a game situation. you pivot as you get up and the only reason to really slide to the middle of your net it of a rebound or a pass, not to get to the middle of your net. I say this manly because you aren't the best at slides, but thats ok, use what you are good at.
-not explosive with t-pushes, try to lead with stick.
-flick the stick when it is a lower blocker save... it could be the shots they seemed pretty slow
-follow angle of puck when a deflection would happen. you were square to the shoter at 435 when the puck was tip by some one to your left, you lost coverage.

get better shoters! you look good just some minor things and practice will get you better! keep it up!
remember block when you have to, react when you have to. angles / positioning along with reaction willl make you great. knowing what to do and when will help further your hockey career and experience.

[the_chief1]

The kid shooting was my brother, hes only 14. There was nobody else on the ice to shoot on me.

madcow- I know the slides were kind of slow, but the ice was really bad becuase its hot outside where I live, so it is alot harder to slide. Also, I wouldn't slide out like that without pivoting and getting square to the shooter in a game situation, that drill was just to work on my legs/and sliding.

[whatasave33]

Keep on working on those basic types of saves. A little more power as mentioned previously, but nice job

[Goalieworld20]

when u are coming up from your b-fly, even if you are just returning to the other side of the net or crease to repeat the drill, always get up with the foot opposite of the way you are moving. you werent doing that. like if you are going to move left, pick your right leg up first, this decreases the amount of time needed to make the move

you only did this during that one recovery drill. do it all of the time so that it is ingrained into your head and becomes second nature

[gola223]

goalieworld,

you should always be getting up on your lead leg, ie: slide to the right, get up on right leg. There is no way should be getting up on your back leg.

[Mo-Diggence]

Originally Posted by gola223

goalieworld,

you should always be getting up on your lead leg, ie: slide to the right, get up on right leg. There is no way should be getting up on your back leg.

I disagree with this totally. It makes it quicker to get up on the leg you're going to push with, i.e. if you move left, you push with your right leg, so recover with your right leg, and you get up as you push, and set when you get to your position. It's kinda hard to explain, but goalieworld is right on this one

[madgoaieskillz0]

You push with the left leg to slide right, and get up on the right leg to recover and come back to center. What the video showed is sliding right and then getting up on the left leg, which is incorrect. You always get up on your outside leg in order to be able to move back to center.

[maximum31]

goalieworld was speaking of the way your going to move, ie, your going right get up with right leg to return to left. You guys were speaking of getting up with the leg to push with, everyones saying the same thing, just differently

[the_chief1]

I'm kind of confused, but are you guys talking about that part when I'm doing the butterfly slides to the post from the center? I'm getting up with the correct leg in that. If you are sliding to the left it makes sense to get up with the left leg becuase it will stop you from sliding.

If you're talking about after the shot in any of the drills when I am down in the butterfly and I get up to restart the drills, I wasn't tpushing back to the post to restart the drill, I was just standing up and taking my time skating over to the post. I know which leg is the correct one to get up with, and you can see that during any of the drills when I need to get up and move over quickly for the next shot or following the rebound, I use the correct leg.

Any other comments on the video though? Everyone was talking about what I was doing after the drill, which I don't think was really that big of a deal, but I'd like to get some more feedback and let me know anything else I was doing wrong or things I was doing good.

[foodsample]

You have very good movement, but I suggest that you get your skates sharpened a bit more (I get 1/2"). From waht I saw in the video, you tend a slide a little when you stop, getting a sharper edge will help you lower the time it takes to stop, and enable you to be in position for the shot quicker.

I have always been taught to get up with the leg that isn't facing the puck.. etc: the puck is on the left I get up with my right leg. The puck is on the right I get up with my left leg. Also if your in a tight situation you want to just use logistics for which one to use.

[the_chief1]

foodsample- right now I have a 1/2", but I haven't had them sharpened in almost 2 weeks at the time I made that video. When I get a chance to get the sharpened again I was planning on getting a sharper cut.

[Goalieworld20]

Originally Posted by gola223

goalieworld,

you should always be getting up on your lead leg, ie: slide to the right, get up on right leg. There is no way should be getting up on your back leg.

im sorry but... i think you're insane

wat i was saying was that if i am down in my b-fly and say i wanna recover and move to my right, i will lift my left leg first so that i can push as i lift my right leg. this decreases the time i need to get to where i am going. this is much faster than say i wanna recover and move to my right and i get up m,y right leg first. now i must lift my left leg, set it, pivot my right leg into the T position and now push, instead of having done that all before i pushed.

oh and to the poster, it is a big deal. this creates bad habits. even tho u know which leg u should be getting up with, if you are not always doing it, it will not become ingrained into your head. i get up off my knees even when im like at home or anywhere not playing hockey as i would when im goalieing becuase my coach has drilled it into my head lol. no joke

[the_chief1]

gola223 is talking about when you are bfly sliding I think, so he is right about that.
Goalieworld, the reason I said it wasn't a big deal was because when I would get up after the shot after doing 1 rep of the drill, I was standing straight up, and then just skating over to the post. I dont think it matters what leg you use to get up with when you stand straight up. Now if you are getting up, pivoting, and t-pushing left or right in one motion, to follow a rebound or something, you must get up with the opposite leg of the direction you want to go, and thats what I always do.