Hockey Drills DVDs

Hockey Drills DVDs Hockey Drills DVD from Championship Productions


Breakout Drills

Breakouts are necessary to create the dangerous 2-on-1 plays. Mark Carlson, the USHL's Coach of the Year in 2004-05, covers the key breakout ingredients - quick, move the puck, timing, talking, read pressure and maintain puck support - in these hockey drills.
Details include getting to the puck quickly, check

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How to Play Defence One-on-One

Defence One-on-One
1) Stay Between the Forward and the Net
2)Control The Gap
3) Watch Their Hips
4) Keep your Hockey Stick out in Front
1) Stay Between the Forward and the Net.
When learning how to play defence in Hockey, you can never go wrong with the basic principal of keeping yourself between the opposing player and the net. One-on-Ones are a perfect example.

Keep Him to the Outside

When a

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Backwards Skating Tips

In order to play defense in hockey, you've got to be able to confidently skate backwards. Switching from forward skating to backwards and back again is crucial.

Stance:
Knees and ankles REALLY bent
Skates shoulder-width apart
Back straight and eyes looking forward
Pretend you're sitting on a chair
Keep your butt low to the ice
Keep only your top hand on the stick
Start each push from directly

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Skating Tips: Speed Kills

Skating Fast is Crucial to Your Game.
There's nothing worse than getting beaten in a race for the puck, or having a back-checker catch you from behind on a break-away. I'm always looking for every ounce of speed I can get.

There's no better way to improve your skating than by taking a power skating course. The feedback from a professional skate instructor in invaluable. The hockey skills class I

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Wayne Gretzky Passing Tips

Gretzky make 1963 assists in has career,
more than anyone else by far. I think he
knows a little something about passing.

Tips on Passing From the Great One in Hockey for Dummies:
If the player you are passing to is standing still:
Make a firm, solid pass.If he's moving fast:
Make a light, feather pass.
Make sure you get it out ahead of him so he can skate into it.Practice your backhand

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DefenceTip: Covering in Front of the Net

Hockey Defence Tip

Protecting the area if front of the net is crucial when you’re playing defense.

Most goals are Scored from the Slot.
When the opposing forwards decides to camp out in front of the net, your job is to make it as difficult as possible for him to get his stick cleanly on the puck.

Position Yourself Between the Player and the Net.
If you let the forward get in behind you, he’s

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Get Full Power From Your Wrist Shot!

Are You Getting All of the...
Power out of Your Wrist Shot?Written by Jeremy Rupke from howtohockey.com

The wrist shot is the most commonly used shot in hockey, but you would be surprised how many players, young and old, are not harnessing all of their power and putting it into their wrist shot.

I know this for a fact because the topic came up in the dressing room at beer leagues. One of the

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