Zig-zag horseshoe with shooting
Category: Agility
1-2 minutes
- Players will start (without a ring) in each corner and skate forward in a zig-zag making a 4-5 quick cuts up the ice. Players will turn around the offside face-off dots and then turn to receive a pass from a player waiting at the opposing side of the horseshoe, then attack the net.
- Knee stacked over ankle at zig-zag cuts
- Keep head up
- Perform quick accelerations at each zig-zag cut
- Knee caving in on change of direction
- Cue “Knee over pinky toe”
- Looking down at the ice
- Cue "Keep head up"
- Full stops at change-of-direction during zig-zag movements
- Cue "Quick transitions"
- Increases heart and breathing rates
- Practices a non-linear skating pattern
- Isolates deceleration and change of direction movement to practice knee and ankle control