
Presto Chango with Rollerguards
Hockey Training Tip: Quickly transform your hockey skates into inline skates with Rollerguard Rolling Skate Guards and get a little skating in anywhere, anytime. Improve your skating stride and endurance, work on positional play outside the rink, practice shots in your driveway or just have fun on any smooth surface, outside or inside.
Improve Your Stickhandling with the Green Biscuit
Practicing your stickhandling is important if you want to become a better stickhandler. Hockey Shot has a number of hockey training aids that will help make your practice time a lot more fun, and a lot more effective. One product that makes stickhandling more ice-like is the Green Biscuit. Click here to see a video showing specific drills and methods for improving your stickhandling using the Green Biscuit.
12 Defensive Tips
Defense and goaltending typically wins championships. It’s interesting how year after year the Stanley Cup–winning team typically has the fewest goals against. Great defensemen are great at getting the puck and starting the offense going the other way. Here’s how to keep it going.
The Skate Boot
To kick off our “Skates: Your Most Important Piece of Hockey Equipment” series, Laura Stamm of Laura Stamm Power Skating explains the importance of good boots in preventing ankle pain, ensuring good skating form and protecting feet from sticks and pucks. (Hint: This fancy boot shown will not work!) The quality, fit, manner of lacing, sharpening and maintenance of your skates will affect performance. A cheap pair of skates is a bad investment. When it comes to the boot:
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