So here we're going to the proper
shooting mechanics for the snapshot
and the wrist shot. We are just going to talk about it real quickly here,
just a refresher. The main key that we are
going to talk about
always is your hands, getting your hands
away from your body. The reason for that is
if your hands enclosed to your
body here you are using just your bottom hand
to shovel the park or to try to get
momentum of the puck. You are just using your
bottom hand. If you use your top and get it
away from your body and both your hands work together
what's going to happen is when this top
and pulls back you can see I'm starting to get that flex on my stick.
My top hand is pulling back and I'm
starting to get that flex on my stick.
Now if I rotate my bottom hand through
as my top hand pulls out
that's going to create that whipping
motion that's really really gonna give you the power
they are looking for. And what that does
is that gives you
the ability to get a quick release.
Because here if my hands are out
and my hands are working together and I
release that puck,
I am going to be able to get a quick release
compared to having to bring my stick all the way back here
to generate that power. I just get my
hands out use my top hand snaps back to my hip,
my bottom hand snaps through and that's
how I'm generating
my quick release. So, here I am going to show you a couple time just in full speed.
My hand are out away from my body, my top hand is going to snap back to my hip, my bottom hand is going to snap through.
My hands are away from my body, top hand snaps back,
bottom hand snaps too and that's really
going to create that flex on your stick.
Compared to just using that bottom hand if
my top hand is in here
and I am just using that bottom hand, then I'm not getting much power. This is where you are generating
your power from. That's how you generate
that quick release
that NHL shot. The next thing that I want
you to focus on
is where that puck is on your stick, so
ideally
you want to have that puck in the top 30
of your stick here.
You don't want to have the puck back here you want to have that puck on the top 30 of your stick.
What that is going to allow you to do. Again talking about putting leverage
inflex in your step.
If the puck is on that top 3rd, its going to allow you to get
a little leverage in low pressure on your
stick verses a bit on the heel
you're not going to get much pressure. So,
here if its on the toe,
I'm going to allow myself to lean in a little bit get my hand out and generate that quick release
So, here on the toe, hands out, lean and then generate that quick release.
So getting that puck on the toe of your stick is really going to allow you to get your hands through
your wrist through and generate that
quick release. The last thing that we are going to talk about here
is just bringing that puck and where
it is
setup in coordination to your body. So
when you are taking a snapshot or
you are taking a risk shot you don't want to have to bring the puck all the way back here like that.
You should be able to really set puck from right in here,
focusing on getting your hands out away
from your body,
getting that puck on the toe of your stick and then
giving a good quick release. Here puck is
right in the middle of my stance, my
hands are out
puck is on the top and I'm getting that good
quick release.
Those are the techniques that you need to focus on to get a good quick release
to use the flex of your stick, get
leverage
and generate a hard shot with power
accuracy and a quick release and those are the three keys at taking a good snapshot.
