Off-ice Hockey Agility Drill
Click Here for a printout of the Dot Drill off ice hockey drills Instructions.
The Dot Drill is one of the most effective off-ice hockey agility drills I’ve ever seen. This drill is easy and inexpensive to set up, and only takes about a minute of the athlete’s time each day – so there are no excuses not to do it!
Remember, the dots should be placed in a 2′ x 3′ rectangle, with one dot in the middle. Each dot should be about 5″ in diameter. You can spray paint the dots onto your garage or basement floor, or onto an old piece of carpet. You could also use something less permanent such as sidewalk chalk or tape.
I prefer the rubber dot drill mats because they have better grip and are more durable. If you decide to get one, make sure you pick up one of the thicker ones with the dots embedded in the mat itself – not just painted on.
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very nice dude. I am going to create a facebook group for the team i am coaching and send them over. Awesome sight brother.
Thanks for the feedback – I look forward to seeing your team on here!
I’m always looking for dryland drills that will improve agility and conditioning and are somewhat competative (always helps to improve the fun factor). This is a great one and I’m definately going to try it. My players love ladder drills and this will add to that. One suggestion is to try it while stickhandling. I do that as a progression with ladder drills and while it slows the drill down a bit it helps with puck control.
The mats are a bit pricy online, so I ran down to Lowes to see what I could find.
I found a nice rubberized 3′x4′ doormat with a good none slip surface – $15. Rubber/plastic based spraypaint – $5. Cardboard to cut a six inch circle template – $0. Homemade dot-drill mat for under $25 and a great way to improve the conditioning and agility of your players while having some fun – priceless!
Dave – I love the Mastercard reference… and this is awesome info to be able to make your own dot drill mat. Thanks for doing the research on that!
I’ve never thought of trying the dot drill while stickhandling, that could throw an interesting twist into it. You wouldn’t be able to focus as much on quick feet, but it would definitely help to develop stickhandling ability and coordination – plus it would encourage the players’ hands to operate independent of their feet, which is another important skill to develop.
Jeremy,
We have a room in the back of the arena where the team skates that has very old carpet on the floor. We made a cardboard template and spray painted the dots right on the carpet. The room is big enough where we have dot stations for half the team located around the perimeter of the room, so we just split them into pairs and the first group does dot drills while their partner counts, then switch up. It’s worked out great. Thanks,
Pete – I really like your idea of making a cardboard template, that’s an easy way to make a lot of dot drills quickly! That back room sounds awesome… please keep in touch and let me know how your team progresses with their foot speed. How old are they by the way? I suspect you’ll notice a considerable improvement pretty quickly. Thanks again for sharing this!
[..YouTube..] lol that’s true! could be a topic for a future vid…
[..YouTube..] hahaha
[..YouTube..] do u play hockey?
[..YouTube..] mostly just coach now
[..YouTube..] oh really..i really need some tips..would u be willing to help
[..YouTube..] send me a direct message with your questions… i’ll see if i can help
[..YouTube..] whats the dfiference between skill and power athlete?
[..YouTube..] Skill would be the smaller, more agile, finess style athlete. Power would be the bigger, more physical style athlete. Make sense?
[..YouTube..] k i get it
[..YouTube..] we used to do that drill for our team but then our trainer told us that all it does is make u better at doing the dot drill it doesnt improve your agility
[..YouTube..] Interesting. Did you feel like it helped you? I did it pretty religiously from about age 12 to 18 and I felt like it helped a ton with quick feet, agility, balance, and coordination. Anyways… I’d say try doing it regularly for a few months as part of your workouts and see how you feel.
[..YouTube..] it was ok but our coaches have a lot better drills to help with quick feet, we usually do latter drills but we do a lot of other stuff too
[..YouTube..] Ladder drills are good too. I actually majored in exercise science at school – so we studied a ton of this stuff. It really comes down to the overall workout program, and how you put all the pieces together. Dot drill (or any other agilty drill) is just one component of developing hockey speed. Thanks for you input man! Who do you play for (just out of curiosity)?
[..YouTube..] well i was on the u17 team for usa hockey and last year i played for eau claire memorial high school. we just got back from germany and now im going to play for a junior a hockey in ann arbor in the ushl
[..YouTube..] Right on man! Sounds like you’re playing some good hockey these days. You guys finish 3rd over in Germany?
[..YouTube..] yeah we played some pretty hard competition, turcotte really helped us out a lot
[..YouTube..] shit dude nice stuff!
[..YouTube..] Excellent. Good demonstation on the board and the matt.
[..YouTube..] you can get the same work out playing DDR!!
[..YouTube..] lol someone said that before too!
[..YouTube..] good stuff…
[..YouTube..] are the times for the whole workout with every exercise… cuz im a fast little guy and im getting bad times
[..YouTube..] The time guidelines are for the entire drill… Six reps of each exercise, just like the demo… There’s a bit of a learning curve while you memorize the sequence… Just keep at it!
[..YouTube..] woo today i got 20 seconds less!!! i have a question.. i went to your s3 formila thing and signed up but it says its not in session right now.. what is it talking about i thought this was an online thing that told you workouts
Jermey,
I want to thanks you for giving all this info on your web page. I have been coaching for seven years and I needed to bring my coaching level to the next level. With all of this info I have learned a great deal and I can\\\’t thank you enough for it. I have been out of work for nine months and without hockey and coaching I would have gone crazy. Thnak you very much again. I needed this. I do take my coaching and teachng with my players very serious. I\\\’m always trying to improve and learn as much as possible. I am a level for coach and have had the chance to coach mite to bantam level players. Thanks for everything.
Mark
[..YouTube..] @jigsaw99 haha I actually train quick feet by playing ddr