Okay, guys, here it goes again. I took it down last time because it was 50 MB, and as Penguin correctly stated, it started eating my bandwidth. This is at 12 MB and much better. I've cut down the size by cutting out the needless audio and the breaks inbetween shots. Here's a small contents blurb with a description of how I play. Enjoy!
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1. Set-up from inside the crease to stance > missed shot. Generally when shots are coming in, I start from back in the crease and come outwards. This helps with getting my butterfly ready since, in inline, you can't slide your stance outwards and instead you have to roll it outwards. You can also see that I start with my glove upwards for a second before dropping it way down.
2. Stance into a half-butterfly stick save. This is pretty much typical butterfly-goalie glove and leg positioning.
3. Transition to left side of the crease. You can see how I turn and push when getting ready to set up. Blocker save with rebound to the right side. Generally I'd like it to go more in the corner, but it was pregame, so I didn't mind here.
4. You can then see how I back track and turn, getting ready for a new shot. Shot goes over my glove and above the net. No use in going down into butterfly since it was obviously going over the net.
5. Typical blocker save.
6. Easy shot.. just kicked away.
7. Getting lazy here.. decided to just back track in a crouched position for god-knows-what reason. I never do that in games, so I have no idea why I did that there. Ended up making the stick save regardless.
8. Transition from what I figured would be a glove-side save into a stick-side stick-save.
9. Easy left arm save. Yes.. left arm. Sometimes I like to just guess where my players are shooting. I guessed wrong here, but still made the left arm save instead of the guessed right.
10. Glove save.
11. Side glove save.
12. Attempted blocker save. Got a piece of it but just let it go.. I didn't even know it went in until I watched the video. Must have caught the inside of my blocker.
13. Surprise side glove save.
14. Stick save to the left. Rebound went up instead of over.
15. Stick save again.. trying to get the blocker broken in, and in the course of doing so sometimes I get weird popups from my stick (because the little pad inbetween the finger and the side wall sometimes gets in my way).
16. Blocker save.
17. Blocker save.. UP!
18. Left pad, glove save. That's a quick one.. I like that one.
19. Glove save, transitioning to...
20. Lucky blocker save. Guy had the whole net and shoots right into my blocker.
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21. Decided to include this clip because it shows how I track the puck from the corner behind the net and into the other corner. You can see my foot work and how I turn between the posts.
22. Like I said before, when the players are coming down, I start from back in the crease and come outwards. Here you can see how I transition outwards into a stance, and then into a paddle-down, stopping a missed pass/dump-in. And cover..
23. This clip knows how I go into my stance to the face-off, and how I transition from the face-off backwards ready for the play. As I referenced in another thread, I straighten my back up and shuffle backwards. In this clip the play goes into the corner, and you also get a little preview of how I play the glove-side corner. Then I have to transition outwards as the pass comes out, become aggressive toward the shooter, and make a clean chest save with the rebound going nicely into my glove. Also notice the closed, very wide butterfly despite keeping the back straight.
Anyway, check out the clip and give me any comments you have.
Thanks a ton!
Elite's Pre-Game/Game Video
I like to be standing before the shooter releases. Partly b/c it gives you more options to react with, and partly b/c I feel my head is more vounerable to getting hit with a shot when I'm allready down.
Linear Mode
