Fall 2011 Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Community Grants are now open!
The Fall 2011 Liberty Mutual Responsible Sports Community Grants are now open! Twenty teams will earn a grant this fall—and yours could be one of them!
Keep Up the Training!
Strength and conditioning is critical to the success of hockey players at all levels. Athletes will spend time in the off-season increasing speed, power, strength, endurance and agility as well as rehabbing injuries. Considerable amounts of time and resources are spent in these endeavors.
Sharpen Your Shot in the Off-Season with Snipers Edge
Shooting is a very important skill to practice on the ice and at home. The only problem is that a lot of players do not have the appropriate area to practice shooting at home. Parents are sometimes worried about the damage that the pucks may cause as this can cost a lot of money. One solution is to provide an area for a child to practice shooting, and a great product is a hockey shooting tarp called the Snipers Edge. The Snipers Edge is a very big tarp that can be hung in a garage or basement to catch and stop pucks. It was designed to reduce the damage caused by stray pucks and give children and adults a target to shoot at. Read the full review here.
Creative Stickhandling with X-Deviator
Practicing your stickhandling can sometimes be a bit boring, if you already have pretty good hands then you will quickly get tired of just playing with a puck or stickhandling ball. After perfecting the basic movements any hockey player will want some obstacles to practice stickhandling around, pylons and pucks are usually the first obstacles that players go for, but there is another option—the X-Deviator! Read the full review here.
Elevate Your Game with the Bauer Vapor X:50 Skate
Perfect Your Wrist Shot with Shot Tec
The Shot Tec is designed for a fairly specific purpose—strengthening the muscles used when taking a wrist shot (and only a wrist shot). Basically, a hockey puck is attached to a resistance band that is fitted into a track. The player uses a dial to choose how much resistance they want and then practices “shooting” the puck. The puck only moves forwards and backwards on the track so the full wrist shot motion cannot be completed. A digital display counts the number of reps, and counts down from a preset number of seconds. You can choose any 30-second interval up to three minutes. Click here to read the full review.
Training Tiles Build the Ultimate Hockey Training Room
Have you ever wanted a room or area that you could practice your hockey skills at any time? Of course you have, what hockey player would not want that?
Develop Quick Hands with the X-Passer Puck Rebounder
The X-Passer is a puck rebounder—you pass the puck into it, and it will pass the puck back to you. This is a very easy product to create (usually just a big elastic band and something to hold it), but some of these work better than others. In this review we will take an in depth look at the X-Passer, which lets you practicing passing by yourself, on or off the ice. For more details, read the full review here.
Build Muscle with Complete Shot Stick Weights
Complete Shot is a weight designed to fit onto the shaft of a hockey stick. The purpose of this device is to provide added resistance to your hockey stick while you practice stickhandling and shooting. This added weight will build all the muscles involved with shooting and stickhandling. If you train with the Complete Shot weight on the stick for a while, then once you take it off you should be able to shoot harder and stickhandle faster.
Get a Leg Up with the Attack Triangle
The Attack Triangle is a hockey training aid that will help you become more creative and develop new moves. A lot of hockey players will practice stickhandling at home and on the ice, we usually set up a line of pucks or pylons to stickhandle around. The Attack Triangle provides a more game like obstacle. Read the full review here.
