{"id":308,"date":"2010-02-05T14:29:46","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2010-02-05T14:29:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T20:29:46","slug":"off-ice-drills-to-develop-quick-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/off-ice-drills-to-develop-quick-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-Ice Drills to Develop Quick Feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-309\" title=\"Quick Feet\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fast_feet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"131\" \/>Developing &#8220;quick feet&#8221; is essential for hockey players. \u00a0Players with quicker feet can typically accelerate, turn, and re-accelerate faster than other players &#8211; giving them a distinct advantage. \u00a0One of the best and most simple tools we&#8217;ve come across is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-systems.com\/p-2361-dot-drill-mat.aspx?affId=95646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dot Drill Mat<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s basically just a thick rubber mat with dots drawn on it (photo below). \u00a0You can certainly draw the pattern on the ground with chalk, but I will say it&#8217;s very handy to have the actual mat. \u00a0We have them in our workout facility for our team, and use them on a weekly basis.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources we&#8217;ve found from around the web. \u00a0Hopefully these resources give you some new and fresh ideas when working with your team to develop quick feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8n2unz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y8n2unz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yclrlz5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yclrlz5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9ddglw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y9ddglw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in purchasing a Dot Drill Mat, I would recommend getting them through Power Systems. \u00a0Here is the product link: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yfhoom2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yfhoom2<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.power-systems.com\/p-2361-dot-drill-mat.aspx?affId=95646\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-310\" title=\"30700\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/30700.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dot drill mats are great ways to develop quick feet in hockey players and other athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68,133,182],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}