Upping your game doesn’t stop when you step out of the rink and unlace your skates. If you want to improve your skills and get better overall, you need to work off the ice too. To work on your shot from home, here are a few simple drills that you can do in your driveway, garage, yard, basement, or anywhere you can set up a target and a shooting pad.
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What you need
When you are practicing at home, you need to simulate on-ice conditions and protect your equipment. That is why a hockey shooting pad is a must-have for home trainers. In addition to the hockey shooting pad, you need some sort of target to shoot at. It can be a hockey goal, a shooting tarp, or something you create yourself.
To take your hockey shooting pad drills to the next level, a PassMaster hockey passer and rebounder will let you practice receiving a pass and shooting to add a level of realism to your training. With these few basic hockey training aids, you’ll be ready to do these drills and more at home.
1. Switch-foot Shot
- Stand on your off foot (left foot if right-handed, right foot if left-handed).
- Get in a snapshot position.
- As you push your stick forward to shoot, transfer your weight, and hop from your off foot to your strong foot to end up standing just on your other foot.
2. Toe-drag One-timer
- Set up your hockey shooting pad so the long side is towards the target.
- Place the pucks on one side and position yourself on the other, just far enough away you can reach the pucks with two hands on your stick.
- Slowly toe-drag a puck towards you and while it is sliding, get your hands into shooting position and take a one-timer snapshot.
3. Pull and Push
- Keep the hockey shooting pad with the long side to the net and the pucks on the far side.
- Using your stickhandling skills, in one fluid motion, bring the puck all the way into your body and push it back out to a shooting position and fire a shot.
4. Backhand Pull and Shoot
- Turn the hockey shooting pad so the short side is facing the target.
- Draw the puck forward and stop it with the backside of your stick blade.
- Draw the puck back to a shooting position with your backhand, switch to forehand, and fire a shot.
5. The Chair Shot
- Using a chair behind you, put your left foot up of the chair and shoot 10 shots standing only on your right foot.
- Then, put your right foot on the chair and shoot 10 shots standing only on your left foot.
Conclusion
With just a hockey shooting pad and a target, these five drills will help you improve your aim, the power you get on your shot, and even your stickhandling too. Do these drills every day (or as much as you can) for a few weeks and you will absolutely notice a difference.
To get the hockey shooting pad for these drills or any other at-home hockey training aids you need, check out Snipers Edge Hockey. We have everything you need to train off the ice so you can dominate on the ice!