Dry land puck drills

[Gustavo Pesce]

Hi team - We are back from PCC's with Silver medals! More later on that. Below: recommendations to improve your puck skills by adding a daily 5-minute routine to your training. Do it, and become an ace in no time! As you can be surely tell, I haven't been doing mines for a while, but hopefully you will guilt-trip to get back to it.

Cheers,

Gus

Check the page below for "puck drills" files. Tell me if those pdfs are clear enough. 

https://sites.google.com/a/sfuwh.org/www/home/training

Whatever stick you use, do the exercises with the same one you play with. 

The key is to not increase speed until you can do X number of repeats without a single time missing the puck. I think my X was 10, maybe 20. A common error is to get excited and do them faster, accepting an error rate. Nope. No errors, keep it slow until you get at least one perfect set. May compare it with slack lining skills. There is no point in walking faster if you fall even once. 

Same with increasing the complexity or challenge level of the exercise.

That's it really. Then do it every day, 5 minutes a day, using a timer. Not 4 minutes. 

Good luck!

[Le Grand Bleu]

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=c2Z1d2gub3JnfHd3d3xneDo1MjVhNDA0MDhiY2U4ZGY3

Focus on “forward to back” and then “Vs” (see Marky V’s drawing).

The puck is moved with the inside and with the outside of the stick. Palm is
always down.
Take the Vs deeeeep (stretch your arm).
Plan:
-Do the land drill:
Start doing 2-3 minutes of the "over and back" move from last week. Don’t
look at the puck. Set your pace so you can consistently do 10 repeats
without any mistake. Then try increasing the pace.
Then move to new exercise. As before, as soon as you can, stop looking
at the puck. Do first the forward and back, then the Vs. Set the pace for 10
repeats, such as above.
-Do the water drill: Do the same exercises in the water. If it is easier to do it
still, start still, then transition to swimming. Again, as soon as you get good,
stop looking at the puck.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=c2Z1d2gub3JnfHd3d3xneDo1OWFkNDEwYzEyMmMxYmMz

Focus on "over and back" move (see Marky V’s drawing).

This is just moving the puck left to right in front of you. The puck is always
in the inside of the stick. If you are right handed your hand is palm-down
when moving to the left and palm-up when moving to the right.
Plan:
-Do the land drill:
Get your tuna can system going at home. Or whatever you want to use.
CanAm sells a "Practice Puck" for land drills. See info below (buy it
through sfuwh.org so we get a cut).
Do at least 3 minutes of just the "over and back" move. As soon as you
can, stop looking at the puck. Do it every day. After those 3 minutes do
something else if you feel like. Up to 7-10 mins is all you need.
-Do the water drill: On Thursday and Monday, do the same exercise in the
water. If it is easier to do it still, start still, then transition to swimming.
Again, as soon as you get good, stop looking at the puck.
Benchmark: (work in progress) Maybe by Monday 7/23 we do a timed
measure of how long can a player does this move continuously without
losing the puck, while swimming, without looking at the puck. Send ideas
for ways to blindfold the player, bring whatever is need to practice to try it
out this Thursday and Monday. And time yourself with the eyes closed.

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[Gustavo Pesce]

Thank you, Renaud! Also: I added another file to the website: "Mark-Voelker-Land-drills.pdf", this is the original I got from Mark V with all his exercises.