{"id":603,"date":"2010-05-12T13:13:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T19:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2023-07-09T12:00:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T12:00:24","slug":"5-hockey-drills-for-defensemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/5-hockey-drills-for-defensemen\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Drills for Defensemen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Developing defensemen can be a difficult task. The skill sets required to be a solid defenseman are unique and require years of practice.\u00a0 One of the biggest things to work on with defenders is lateral movement.\u00a0 Here are some drills I like to use to improve my defensemen’s footwork:<\/p>\n

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1) Backward Snake Bites – Players skate backwards around each cone in the pattern.\u00a0 Players should keep their knees bent and chest up.<\/p>\n

2) D Turn Step Outs – Players perform quick start backward, and pivot out to the wall and stop.\u00a0 Player returns to starting position, performs a D turn to accelerate backwards, and steps out to the wall again.<\/p>\n

3) Defense Lightning – Player starts forward, skates to the red line, does a defense turn and then skates backward to the blue line, then pivots forward and skates back to the red line, then pivots backward again and skates (backward) into the zone.<\/p>\n

4) D Half-Circle – Player starts forward around the circle to the top, performs a hard D turn and returns around the same portion of the circle skating backwards.<\/p>\n

5) 4 Pivot – Player starts above the top cone and skates backward to the far cone, pivots forward, then returns to the top cone and performs a defense turn.\u00a0 Player will continue the drill around each cone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Developing defensemen can be a difficult task. The skill sets required to be a solid defenseman are unique and require years of practice. One of the biggest things to work on with defenders is lateral movement. Here are some drills I like to use to improve my defensemen’s footwork:<\/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":[52,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"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=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1740,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/1740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}