14Jun 2011 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Stickhandling: Roll-up Skill Pad

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Individual Skills, Off-ice Training, Puckhandling, Skills, Useful Products
Save Your Stick with this Roll-up Skill Pad that Mimics the Feel of Real Ice! As is the case with off-ice shooting practice, when working on your stickhandling you need a good slick surface to work on. This is the case for two reasons: To save your stick: Sticks are expensive these days, and you want to be using your game stick for your off-ice stickhandling and shooting drills. To mimic the ice surface: It's no secret that pucks don't slide well on concrete. You want to work on a surface that will act and feel as close to real ice as possible. HockeyShot's Roll-up Shooting & Skill Pad will accomplish both of these objectives. It'll protect your stick, and give you a smooth, slick surface on which your pucks…
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08Jun 2011 by Jeremy Weiss 5 Comments

Shooting: Hockey Radar Gun iPhone App

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Off-ice Training, Skills, Useful Products
Track the Speed of your Hockey Shot with this Radar Gun iPhone App! A few weeks ago, I was contacted by the developers of a new iPhone app called Speedhero. I took a look at a few of their YouTube videos, and was blown away by what I saw: The folks down at Speedhero have come up with a way to track the speed of a shot using your phone! It all centers around a basic equation you've probably seen before D=RxT (Distance = Rate x Time). If you have any two of these components, you can figure out the third. With Speedhero, you program in your "Distance" from the goal, then it uses the microphone in your iPhone to pick up two important sounds: your stick hitting the puck,…
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01Jun 2011 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Shooting: Extreme Passer for 1-Timers

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Off-ice Training, Skills, Useful Products
The Extreme Passer is an Awesome Tool for Working on your One-Timer! Every once in a while, a product comes along that just makes sense. The Extreme Passer is one of them. This device is simple, but very versatile in how it can be used. The Extreme Passer clamps or screws onto any shooting pad synthetic ice surface, and can then be used as a "passing buddy" to feed you passes for one-time shots (as we're demonstrating in this post), or as a rebounder to actually practice your passing technique (as we'll show in an upcoming post). When you open up your Extreme Passer, the first thing you'll notice is that it is super heavy duty. It's thick enough that will stay stable as you fire passes off it. Set-up…
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30May 2011 by Jeremy Weiss 1 Comment

Shooting: Professional Shooting Pad

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Off-ice Training, Skills, Useful Products
The HockeyShot Professional Shooting Pad is a Must-Have if You Plan to Work on Your Shot from Home! This product is a no-brainer. If you want to work on your shot off the ice, you need a good shooting pad. Otherwise you'll wreck your stick, and the pucks won't slide with the same feel as real ice. HockeyShot's Professional Shooting Pad is a great choice. I've used quite a few "makeshift" shooting pads over the years. Some of these worked ok, some not as well. None has compared to the experience I've had with the Professional Shooting Pad. There are a few key features that make this a "must-have" item: 30" by 60" surface area, which is larger than most of the pads I've used in the past. This makes…
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26May 2011 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Shooting: Shooter Tutor Review

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Off-ice Training, Skills, Useful Products
The Shooter Tutor is one of my All-time Favorite Hockey Shooting Aids! I first began using the Shooter Tutor when I was about 10 years old back in Toronto. My dad used to keep one in the trunk incase we had ever had a goalie "no-show" us for practice. During high school (about 6 years later), I kept that same Shooter Tutor strapped to a full-sized goal in our side yard. I left it up through rain and shine, and shot anywhere from 50 to 100 pucks a day during the summers. Needless to say, it saw its fair share of abuse from me! Years later, when I began running my own skill development camps, the first thing I invested in were two Shooter Tutors. There's nothing worse than showing…
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