WINDUP: With your weight on your back leg, raise your stick back between waist and shoulder height.
DOWN SWING: Drive your stick down, stepping and leaning into the shot, transferring your weight forward onto your stick through your lower hand.
IMPACT: Your stick should strike the ice about two to four inches before coming into contact with the puck.
FOLLOW-THROUGH: As the puck rises off the ice, snap your wrists. Continue to follow through with your weight fully transferred to your front leg.
SHOT BLOCKS
Practice makes perfect, right? So practice. Drop a bunch of pucks onto the ice and rocket them at a block you set up as a target. This will improve both your shooting accuracy and power. The farther back you drive the block with the puck, the harder your shot is.
How to do it:
• Find a block of wood that’s approximately 12 inches square
• Place the block on the blue line — or at a distance you feel comfortable shooting.
• Stand about six feet back and shoot at the target.
• Try to drive the block back as far as possible with the puck
• Do this not just a few times, but a few hundred times.
