1/2 Ice Overspeed

PURPOSE

Technical skating drill working on generating and maintaining speed. Also great for effective game-ready conditioning.

HOW TO

• Player starts in corner and skates a figure 8 around the near zone face off circles.
• Then heads up ice and does as many power turns between the near blue and center read line as they can. There should be no less than 6 turns (3 each way).
• Proceed back down the boards into the opposite corner from where they started

FOCUS

• Players should feel like they are on the edge of falling with each stride pushing them faster.
• There should be little to no gliding at any point.

VARIATIONS

• With pucks
• Always backwards
• In transition