Build Muscle Memory with Halo
The Halo is a stickhandling and shooting training aid for hockey players. The idea behind the device is to train newcomers to the game of hockey. The problem a lot of new players have is using their muscles properly. Most hockey players who just start have trouble stickhandling and shooting. The Halo was made to only work if proper technique is used. The purpose of the Halo is to train build your muscle memory to perform the proper actions that are required for shooting in hockey. In order to raise a ball while using the Halo you will have to cup it, and then perform the “wrist flick” that also helps elevate a hockey puck. Click here to read the full review and see it in action.
Master Passing with the PassMaster
The idea of the PassMaster is simple. You pass a puck into it and the puck will be passed back. To use it off-ice, you either need a hockey shooting board to provide a smooth surface for a regular hockey puck to slide on or a Green Biscuit to use on a rough surface. After the PassMaster is assembled, there is no setup time. Just put it in place and you can start passing. But can a metal triangle, three posts and a rubber band really help with all your passing needs, including short and long passes plus hard passes and one-timers? Click here to find out.
Do Flypucks Really Fly?
Flypucks are designed to be used off ice, but slide and feel like a hockey puck does on the ice. Flypucks are the same size as an ice hockey puck but they come in three different weights—4 oz, 6 oz and 8 oz. The 4 oz puck is meant for repetition and speed, the 6 oz to match the weight of a real puck and the 8 oz puck is to build stickhandling muscles. Check out our tests of the slide, feel and durability of each Flypuck on various surfaces while stickhandling, deking, passing, shooting and more. Read the full review here.
G1 Extreme Slideboard
The G1 Extreme Slideboard is ideal for younger hockey players with big imaginations. A player can practice as many fundamental skills as he or she can think up, including working on stride length and practicing stops, starts, quick movements, toe drags, passing and more. The included rotating discs and booties offer various options for practicing moves and the large size offers plenty of space. Read the full review here.Powerslide Hockey Slideboard Review
Can’t afford your own hockey rink, real or fake? Improve your skating with a slideboard like the Powerslide. Wearing low-friction booties, you push off from one stopper and slide across the slick board to the other stopper, going back and forth to replicate a hockey stride. But does it feel like skating? Do you really get a workout? And more importantly, does it make you better at hockey? Read the full review here.
EZ Goal Hockey Net Targets Review
The only thing better than blasting some hockey pucks at the net, is having four targets in each corner to really challenge yourself! There are a lot of hockey targets out there and all of them vary in price and quality. Here we take a close-up look at the EZ Goal targets. We evaluate the design, material and how they are supposed to work to see if they're worth $19.95—and if they really make shooting more fun and more accurate.Read the full EZ Goal Hockey Net Targets review here.
Editor’s Note: Thank you to HockeyReviewHQ.com for this review.
Sweet Stickhandling with a Swedish Stickhandling Ball
One of the biggest problems with practicing your hockey skills off of the ice is learning the proper movements—and then using them on the ice. This is why it's important to create an environment off the ice that is very similar to what you experience on the ice. To that end, I've take a look at some of the variables that come into play when you stickhandle with a puck, and how they compare with a wooden stickhandling ball.Find out how the contact point, weight, slide, bounce and more compare to working with a puck. Read the full review here and sign up to be notified when other reviews are available.
Editor's Note: Thank you to HockeyReviewHQ.com for this review.
SweetHands Stickhandling Trainer Review
SweetHands is a product designed to help players develop and improve their puck handling skills. A common drill that hockey players perform is setting up a line of hockey pucks about a foot apart, and then stick handling through them. The problem is that most players spend more time setting up the pucks—or fetching them after they hit them—rather than stickhandling around them. The SweetHands is basically a souped up line of hockey pucks!You can do a variety of drills with SweetHands. The objective is to stickhandle under all sections without hitting any of the posts. Some obvious variations would be to stickhandle on your shooting side, while straddling the SweetHands, on your backhand side, and also practice stickhandling back and forth and side to side through the SweetHands.
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MoveMaster Hockey Puck Review
If you want to improve your stickhandling and puck control, you may be looking for something that will help you develop your skills off-ice. The MoveMaster hockey puck set is designed for this very purpose. We have already given you an in-depth look at the product in our MoveMaster product overview, and we will now be testing the product out and giving you a full review.Price
The MoveMaster hockey pucks sell for around $35. When you buy them you get three pucks, and each puck is specifically designed to help you in a different way. Let’s look at all three pucks, how they are designed, and how they actually worked.
The Muscle Puck
The Muscle puck is made to be bigger than a hockey puck, and heavier than a hockey puck. The Muscle Puck weighs 11.5 ounces and measures 3.7 inches in diameter. The bigger size is supposed to make it easier to maneuver, and the extra weight is supposed to help build the muscles involved in stickhandling.
During our testing of the Muscle Puck we found that it is very easy to stickhandle. The extra size makes it less challenging than a regular puck, and after about 5 minutes of stickhandling we did notice the weight was giving our forearms a bit of a workout. We decided that a big puck would be great for a beginner hockey player who tends to fumble the puck. Starting with a big heavy puck will help the muscles form patterns and learn the proper movements
The Skillz Puck
This puck is the same size and weight as a hockey puck. You should use this puckweighted hockey puck if you have “graduated” from the Muscle Puck. This puck is made to be the same size and weight of a puck, however it does not match the weight and feel of a puck on the ice. We have found that in order for an object to feel like a puck does on the ice, it needs to be a few ounces lighter to compensate for the added friction. The Skillz Puck is still fun to stickhandle with, and is a bit more challenging than the Muscle Puck
The Speed Puck
The Speed Puck is a teeny tiny puck that is very light. This puck is thinner thanmovemaster speed puck hockey a puck, has a smaller circumference than a puck, and is also much lighter than a puck. This puck was designed to help build the fast twitch muscles, and practice repetition.
Stickhandling with this puck is a lot of fun, and much more challenging than using a regular puck. The smaller size makes it harder to control, and the light weight allows a player to quickly move the puck from side to side.
Read the full MoveMaster Hockey Puck review here.
Editor's Note: Thank you to HockeyReviewHQ.com for this review.
Hockey Stick Length Guide
When you buy a hockey stick one of the most important factors is the length of the hockey stick. Experienced hockey players know the exact length they like. The length of a hockey stick is mainly chosen by personal preference, however the length does affect the performance of the stick, and the hockey player. It will be difficult for a hockey player to control the puck, and shoot the puck if the stick is too short, or too long for them. Also it seems that players who share a certain playing style or position tend to prefer a similar hockey stick length, we will discuss this later. First let’s look at how to measure the length of a hockey stick, and how to choose the right length.Read the full Hockey Stick Length Guide here.
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