I have not been playing too long but I can't seem to be any good with the puck. I always lose it if I don't concentrate 100% of myself to the puck. I can't deke worth a hoot, cause I don't have a clue what works. I was also wondering if any one has something for me to do off ice that would help?
2006-09-30 17:50:37 · 9 answers · asked by J W Hockey 2 in Sports ➔ Hockey
There is a very important detail left out by the others that you need to learn as a puck carrier that seperates the pros from everyone else. Learn to skate and handle the puck with your head up. It is helpful if you can read a defenders body language as you are carrying the puck towards him/her. This is also helpful to find open players because hockey is a team sport and you will not always be the puck carrier. When you skate with your head down goalies can read you and opposing players eat it up with big checks. I have my son practice in the driveway at a stand still position with a hockey ball remembering to shift the weight from side to side as you stickhandle looking at a target ahead of you with your head up. As far as deking, watch the pros and try and learn from their body movements.
2006-10-03 04:30:29 · answer #1 · answered by andjusticeivall 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get comfortable w/ carrying the puck on your forehand while skating. When approaching a defender, make a move to one side while skating, then quickly switch the puck to your backhand and then back quickly to your forehand. Do a quick cross cut on your blades, lower your head and carry the puck around the defender. First rule: you have to have adequate speed, always moving your feet so you can accelerate around the defender. Don't let yourself get too close to the defenders stick so he won't pokecheck it off your stick.
Another method: Come into a defenders zone w/ a lot of speed. Stop skating and while keeping a wide stance, move the puck back and forth to get the defender moving to one side, then when he's moving left, you go to the right, or vice-versa. You can only do this when your approaching the defender faster than he's skating backwards. Don't forget to make your dekes early! Don't get right up on a guy and then try to beat him. He will sweep check you every time and you'll lose the puck. Practice skating FAST forward with the puck while keeping the puck under control.
Skate, skate, skate!!!
2006-09-30 18:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by Chris H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been playing hockey since I was 4. Practice is key, but for improvement for soft hands, practice with a golf ball at your house on pavement preferably. The ball will bounce and you will adapt to it, giving you soft hands. As for deke's well it mainly is free style and situation stuff but a good easy deke is to leave the puck on your forehand far but not to far away from your body, and when a opposing player approaches slide the puck about 3 feet to your back hand. The second it takes the defensemen from going to the puck on your forehand is the time it will take with good skating ability to go around him. But learning timing for this move is important because you don't want to start it too soon so they can read the move. Usually skate normal until about 5 feet away, then at 3 feet do the move, if it is too short or too long adjust to your own timing. But practice is the main key.
2006-10-01 10:53:33 · answer #3 · answered by Ganny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's one I like to do that works sometimes. I'm righthanded so imagine coming down the right wing and pull the puck through the D-guy's legs....or bank it off the boards (not too hard) but don't you go right...skate to the left and pick the puck up as it rebounds back off the boards.
To gain confidence just stickhandle a lot even if it's using a hockey ball in your driveway. The more you get a feel of how to stickhandle, the better you'll be in game conditions.
2006-10-02 16:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hockey Deking
2016-12-18 08:52:15 · answer #5 · answered by branting 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, I went to the rink and worked on it myself...got into some pickup games...the big trick is to work on your skating ability...I went skating every chance I had, once I had control of that, I knew which way to turn and I also watched the NHL players and how they did it...eventually, I got a lot of goals and assists and I was hated by opposing players because of it! Just Practice....refine your skating ability...go for the net...that's where the goals are scored!!!
2006-09-30 18:06:04 · answer #6 · answered by Damned fan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all I know it sounds cheesy, but practice. the more you practice the better you become. with the whole deke thing, it's kinda hard to teach but one suggestion i think will help you is always let the defender make the first move. but again just practice and you will get better. good luck
2006-09-30 17:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by hockeyislife21 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fakes are very good you pretend to go to oneside then go to the other if u have speed skate along the bords with one hand on your stick and the other blocking there stick(sometimes ur donament had is blocking the stick) to practice puck handaling just grab an old stick/get or a cheep stick and practice (try with ur head up when u get better
2006-10-01 10:57:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-18 03:14:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
gotta have soft hands. look where the puck is going, not where it's been. practice on good ice.
2006-09-30 18:51:19 · answer #10 · answered by nategretzky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋