{"id":593,"date":"2010-05-05T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T19:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=593"},"modified":"2010-05-05T13:10:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-05T19:10:40","slug":"defensive-shadow-drill-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/defensive-shadow-drill-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Defensive Shadow Drill [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s video from M2 Hockey and HockeyShare.com features a great drill to work on defensive player mobility, footwork, and quick reaction.\u00a0 The drill requires two players and 4 cones and only takes a minute to set up.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x-zpzNcl7mw<\/p>\n<p>Teaching Key Points:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Proper knee bend (stay low through entire drill)<\/li>\n<li>Get your feet moving quickly. Players must push themselves. If players fall, get up as quickly as possible<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let the defending player&#8217;s stick get out of position.\u00a0 Keep the top hand just off the hip and stick in front.<\/li>\n<li>Always face the offensive player (players should never turn their back on the offensive skater)<\/li>\n<li>This drill is extremely tiring &#8211; run it for a short duration (10-15 seconds is usually plenty) to keep the the tempo high<\/li>\n<li>The pivots, stopping, and turning in the drill tear the ice up pretty quick, move the cones as necessary to get &#8220;fresh&#8221; ice<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Common Mistakes<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Falling on the transition forward to backward &#8211; this is typically caused by the heel of the skate digging into the ice while pivoting<\/li>\n<li>Defensive players turning their back on the offensive skater<\/li>\n<li>Lack of power from pushes &#8211; players need to keep their feet moving, but also need to generate powerful pushes to maximize the ice they cover with a single push<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s video from M2 Hockey and HockeyShare.com features a great drill to work on defensive player mobility, footwork, and quick reaction.  The drill requires two players and 4 cones and only takes a minute to set up. <\/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":[104,154,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}