Atom Practice #5

Drill Diagram

Description

Each station 10 mins long

Station #1 Split kids into two groups.
Part 1- Have 2 cones for each kid, have them practice tight turns doing a figure 8 around the cones. Work on keeping both feet together (using inside edge of outside foot and outside edge of inside foot), turn the shoulders and accelerate from tight turn.

Part 2 - Have the other half of the kids line up in the corner. Stagger the cones. Player weave around cones and pick up puck at teh end and take a shot from top of the circle on net.

Station #2 Balance and skating. Players start on circle.
Skate hard to center dot. Stop. Cross over to edge of circle. Stop. Cross over to the other edge of circle. stop. Crossover back to center dot. Skate forward to top of circle. stop. Backwards to starting point.

Station #3 -
Players in the corner. With a puck first player in line skates to the cone and drives to net and shots. Player continues to corner and picks up a puck and passes to coach at top of circle. Player continues to top of circle and recieves pass from coach and shots on net. Stagger players so goalies are seeing shots from both sides.

Tags: Keeping both feet together when doing tight turns, accelerate out of turn. Keep shoulders level and bend at the waist