Use Stationary skills to help teach fundamentals. This video illustrates how to help players with their knee drops to work on their posture, balance and leg strength.
Description
Draw an X for each player to stand on the ice. Coach leads drill with various stationary exercises:
1. Knee drops
2. Hockey stance
3. Scrapes
4. Knees up
Key Points
Have players facing away from other areas to keep focus on the coach. This is where the building blocks are built for turns, strides and stops. Skills to focus on:
- Knee drops: one knee at a time, shoulders back, hands up
- Hockey stance (hold for 5 seconds): drop hips, hands up, shoulders back
- Two foot hops: Hockey stance, hop, hockey stance
- Inside edge scrapes: Pushing away from the body, even pressure, big pushes
- Knees up: Transferring weight from foot to foot, raise knee high (Penguin vs. Bear)
