Tight Figure 8s Skating

PURPOSE

Technical skating skill to work on puck and edge control while maintaining or gaining speed into and out of turns or transition.

HOW TO

Drill in runs north south in lines
Place 8 cones per line – each face off dot, tops of circles, and all three center lines.
Player skates forwards on one side of the cone then cuts inside of first set of cones, power turns and does a figure 8 around the set of cones. Pattern repeats at each double set of cone.
For the single cone at the red line, player will do a tight power turn around the single cone.
Once all players get to the other end, repeat back to the original side. If players started on the right side of the cone, they will return on the left

FOCUS

Edges, edges, edges. Player may have the tendency to either not get into their edges enough, making wider turns or digging to much to the point of almost stopping.

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