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I really can't stickhandle with my head up...I'm like Lindros. I've practiced plenty of times...
Any tips?
Any tips?
I really can't stickhandle with my head up...I'm like Lindros. I've practiced plenty of times...
I really can't stickhandle with my head up...I'm like Lindros. I've practiced plenty of times...
Any tips?
I'm not that great, but one thing that really helped me was to stop over-handling the puck.
If you're moving the puck up the ice, you're generally skating fairly straight and you don't need to be tick-tacking the puck back & forth from your forehand to your backhand.
Just rest it on the forehand of your blade and skate up the ice. That'll allow you to skate straight ahead and even turn in the direction of your forehand. You don't need to take the puck on your BH until you turn in that direction..
I really can't stickhandle with my head up...I'm like Lindros. I've practiced plenty of times...
Any tips?
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I've searched before and I still have no idea what "shinny" is. Can someone explain it to me?Play shinny, that is the best way to learn to stickhandle with your head up.
I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I've searched before and I still have no idea what "shinny" is. Can someone explain it to me?
Thanks, I couldn't tell if it was some variation special variation of hockey with different rules, no goalies, on foot, with a ball, or any combination of those.AND1 hockey...
It's just pick up hockey, no contact, nobody taking it too seriously. It's usually all offence and guys just playing for fun.
Learn to make it move places in a way that ensures you know where it is all the time. Don't just knock it around, forhand to backhand. Take it on your stick and move it a few inches. You are the one telling it where to go, so you need to learn how to meet it there and move it again. Once you learn how to anticipate its every move (which should come naturally because you are the one making it move) you should be able to feel it and know where it is all the time. That's what puck handling is, and that's how I feel when I have the puck.
Maybe this is a dumb post, but I hope it helps.
I'm a goalie, but I am a good puck handler and I play shinny as a forward a lot so my hands are pretty good. So let me offer something completely different than what everyone else is saying, I hope it works....
Start thinking about it differently. Kids are taught to knock the puck back and forth and that is stickhandling. That's fine and all, but really it's deeper than than.
get a sheet of plexiglass (3'x5' or so) and sprinkle it with baby powder. you can practice stick handling on that whenever you can
Invest in a stick handling ball.
I use mine all the time. With my old wood sticks (on their last legs) I just wander outside my building and just play around. Do a lot of stick handling tricks, back and forth stickhandling, just a lot of fun.