This Circle Agility Hockey Drill is Phenomenal for Developing Speed & Quick Feet
Speed is one of the most important aspects of today’s game.
True hockey speed is comprised of two parts: Skating Power and Foot Speed. A player will not reach his or her full skating potential until he or she gets good at both.
Power and foot speed can be worked into many hockey drills, which will help young players to improve their overall game.
The Circle Agility Drill one of my favorite on-ice agility drills. I like it because it develops quick feet while skating forward, backward, as well as side-to-side.
Here’s the diagram and explanation for the Circle Agility Drill:
Always facing the cone:
- Sprint to the top of the circle, backwards to the left-side hashmarks, stop
- Forward to the top of the circle, backwards to the dot, stop
- Crossover steps to the left hashmark, stop
- Crossover steps all the way across to the right hashmark, stop
- Crossover steps back to the dot, stop
- Skate up to the top of the circle, backwards to the right-side hashmarks, stop
- Forward to the top of the circle, backwards all the way to the bottom of the circle, stop
- DONE.
Variations:
- Add pucks
- Add push-ups if player loses the puck
- Add a coach providing “token” pressure while player skates the drill with a puck
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Jeremy Weiss (with his translator) presenting at a hockey coaching symposium for the Russian Federation in Moscow—2018.
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Hey Jeremy,
Great drill. I started doing this last year with my kids and it really helped their movements. I run a modified version of this and find it helps them to move both directions laterally and forward and backward.
http://www.inlinehockeydrills.com/2011/08/skating-agility-and-footwork.html
Hello Jeremy,
This is great stuff…thanks for posting this on your website.
In the Agility Drill you mentioned your summer camp…do you have information you can forward on your hockey camp? My e-mail address is [email protected]
Thanks,
Andy Levonick