stick discipline

Here is an article by a guest author Carl Howell on the mechanics of lateral movement and proper stick placement.

I have seen several young goalies around the state use the " hop " to skip across the crease to gain a new position. I don't mean a power shuffle hop, they use a multi-step process to move rather than using the power shuffle, T-push or drop step T-push. This reminds me of the goalies ( not many left anymore who do this ) who were taught highly exaggerated foot movements to excecute a simple T-push. Steve McKichan and I refer to this as Goofy Feet.

One of my duties as a coach is the make sure that my goalies, coaches, and clients can differentiate between techniques. The techniques that I will be discussing here are defined as Stick Discipline and Stick Involvement. The lines between these two techniques have been blurring at the amateur level over the past few years.