This week’s video drill is a lot of fun. \u00a0In this clip, we focus on explosive jumping and balance. \u00a0While jumping itself doesn’t always have a direct use in games, the skills and techniques it works on play a vital role in skating ability. \u00a0Jumping forces players to do the following:<\/p>\n
1) Get low and explode up I hope you enjoy this video as much as I enjoyed filming it! \u00a0Stay tuned next week for a drill focusing on burying the puck top shelf!<\/p>\n httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SmxoWaqEXXw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week’s video drill is a lot of fun. In this clip, we focus on explosive jumping and balance. While jumping itself doesn’t always have a direct use in games, the skills and techniques it works on play a vital role in skating ability. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[65,102,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537"}],"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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2) Land in a controlled manner (ever been off-balance in a hockey game before?)
\n3) Balance
\n4) Keep control of their entire<\/span> body
\n5) Utilize edges<\/p>\n