| Soft touch stick handling is a great hockey exercise | | | | tighten up your stance a bit so that your feet are a bit |
| because it's easy to do at home. All you need is your | | | | closer together and adjust your stickhandling so that |
| hockey stick and a ball - preferably a street hockey | | | | you are moving the ball back and forth within a shorter |
| ball, but if you're in a bind, a baseball or tennis ball will | | | | distance and at a faster pace. Do this 200 times over |
| do. | | | | the coming days and weeks until comfortable. |
| This exercise will help your stickhandling greatly. If | | | | Doing this drill will not only increase the speed with |
| you're just starting out, begin by taking a stance that | | | | which you are able to stickhandle, it will also help build |
| has your feet positioned shoulder length apart. Now, | | | | up your level of comfort in stickhandling with your |
| while wearing your normal hockey gloves and using | | | | equipment and hockey stick. |
| your normal hockey stick (to help build comfort with | | | | As you become more and more comfortable, you can |
| your own equipment), begin stickhandling the ball back | | | | begin setting up barriers in between your stickhandling |
| and forth between your two feet; that means that the | | | | range that you must work around (e.g., plastic solo |
| ball should never travel further than either foot in going | | | | cups placed in a triangle formation that you must |
| back and forth. Do this 100 times and repeat over the | | | | stickhandle "around"). This will all be covered in future |
| coming days and weeks until comfortable. | | | | hockey exercise postings. |
| One you've built up enough familiarity with this drill, | | | | Good luck and enjoy! |