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 far blue and center read line as they can. There should be no less than 6 turns (3 each way).
- Proceed into the far zone and finish with a half Russian around the far face off circles, ending in the corner opposite the corner 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