How to Stickhandle in Hockey - Hockey Hacks System Day 5

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🏒 Mastering Stickhandling Secrets: Unleash Your Inner Hockey Pro! 🏒
Unlock the art of stickhandling like the best in the game with this in-depth guide! Explore why stickhandling mirrors soccer, discover the four essential types of dekes, and learn how skating lays the groundwork for elite stickhandling. Plus, follow step-by-step progressions to mastery! 🚀
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🌐 Soccer Connection: Understand the surprising parallels between stickhandling and soccer, reshaping the way you approach this critical skill on the ice.
🔄 The 4 Types of Dekes: Dive into the intricacies of deking with a breakdown of the four fundamental types, giving you the arsenal you need to outmaneuver any opponent.
⛸ Skating-Stickhandling Fusion: Explore the symbiotic relationship between skating and stickhandling, uncovering how your footwork becomes the secret sauce to unparalleled puck control.
📈 Progressions to Mastery: Follow carefully curated progressions that take you from beginner to expert, ensuring you build a solid foundation and elevate your stickhandling prowess.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:49 Jack Hughes confirms he stickhandles with his feet
1:44 Guide the puck like a Soccer Ball
5:55 Footwork makes Stickhandling happen
12:00 Progressions
12:10 4 Areas for Puck Control
15:17 Progression 1
16:16 Progression 2
16:58 Progression 3
17:27 Progression 4

[@vind98]

Great video. It's surprising to see how "simple" modern stickhandling has become, but also completely rational and expected - you cannot have a puck glued to your stick and expect to move as quickly as players today. Pushing the puck, the football explanation, makes perfect sense. When I mean simple, I'm referring to taking out a lot of what I've seen in practice regiments. Maybe it's true that a lot of these drills can help with coordination, but are not necessarily game-transferable. The complexity will arise from combining your footwork into the equation. I asked you about dryland tiles in the last video. Is there a stickhandling/footwork routine that we could build from scratch? I want to remove any old habits, and start fresh. There's nothing worth carrying over from my days of playing in the 2000s; my goal is to return to hockey as if I've never played before. If that's something that we can discuss further in a call, let me know!

[@hockeyhacks]

Dryland tiles are great for alternatives, I used them for years at my first home.

[@vind98]

@@hockeyhacks Yeah definitely, there is a big value. To my question about developing a routine with tiles, is that something that you are able to help with as part of your services? I would love to talk about that more; I have specific hockey goals in mind. Let me know!

[@hockeyhacks]

@@vind98 sure! just book a chat with me calendly.com/masoguchi/30min

[@vind98]

@@hockeyhacks Done! If there's any other info to give me beforehand, my email is listed in the meeting. Looking forward to it!

[@stevensullivan242]

Really great break down - thanks! I've noticed when playing against guys (and gals) who shovel the puck with their stick (keeping that puck "glued" to the blade), that it's easier to knock the puck off their stick since you can just hit their stick, which is an easy target. And yeah, the weighted pucks don't make sense to me either. I do find the Swedish stick-handling wooden balls beneficial when I'm want to practice in the garage.

[@hockeyhacks]

Good point!

[@quickdry3]

imo the pattern in the "footwork makes stickhandling happem section of the video about "arcs" as he dekes between two players on the blue line. It's just following the body line, the wide anchor/direction change is puck protection from the back checker - the backchecker's stick is effectively 'trapped' across the front and his left side/leg/shin can block, nd the ballsy move is using the front of the body as the protective surface against the defenceman who took the bait. I'd say this deke is really about understanding all your blocking surfaces and moving the puck into safe zones behind those. (Which vastly downplays the skill/timing to be able to recognise and perform it all at speed/pressure) The weighted sticks/pucks for puckhandling just get you trained at doing the movements slowly, they're not strength limited moves. (though it is true that havier pucks can improve shot power - the havier ice puck helps your inline hockey shot power, but it would be interesting to take a high speed camera and frame by frame to compare differences in what is happening in the 'free' blade end of the stick versus the 'held' section of the shaft)

[@hockeyhacks]

Respectfully, this video is not about understanding when to deke, but the mechanics and progressions behind the dekes. And if you wanted to do the movements slowly, do the movements slowly. No need for weighted pucks or sticks.

[@quickdry3]

@@hockeyhacks I think you misunderstood what I meant about doing movements slowly - I'm agreeing with your point against using them. Doing the movements slowly to figure them out is one thing at first, but the neurological sequencing of the muscles is only used to a certain speed, not the higehr pace needed for rapid handling. But on the first point, I wouldn't say I'm talking about the 'when' - more the why/how in that particular instance. In a similar style to branding thinsg like corkscrew style or whatever - you could have 'categpries' of dekes: protected, puck first and puck away. Crosby always chipping the puck away to space like thos examples might be puck away, protected is the style keeping the puck behind protective surfaces (body, shin, etc), and puck first for that standard quick hands guy who keeps it out in front and just moves it around. Good video breakdowns. What do you think of the idea that some of those dekes where Crosby (example) makes small chips of the puck near a player, it is to minimise the time the puck is on the stick, since the stick is the most likely/easiest target for the opponent, and a solid hit on the stick may lose posession, whereas he often chips the puck through spaces that are hard for the opponent to reach with their own stick.

[@hockeyhacks]

So did the language of the corkscrew/other dekes make sense to you or not? I'm not getting what you're saying with that.

[@bfish9700]

Needed this. My skating is the the point where puckhandling is the bottleneck. I'm getting shots, but they're not high percentage shots.

[@hockeyhacks]

Glad it was helpful!👊

[@beachmaster9042]

@5:40 why doesnt severson go for a hit there? I mean seriously. Edit, i guess he did just not sure why theres not more hitting. Even the last clip, why not hit mccinon there, i dont get it.

[@hockeyhacks]

Why focus on the defense instead of the offense?