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Great clinic last night at KHS, they had 4 coaches out there, including a suited up goalie coach! I believe there were about 12-15 skaters, plus 3 goalies (me, plus 2 others). It was really nice that there was a goalie coach this time around, he took us down to the other end of the ice to work with us. We started off with some C-Cuts to stops, switching off which leg we stopped with, cut-cut-cut-stop-set! repeated that from the goal line to the blue line and back. Next up was T-Pushes, strong push-glide-strong-stop, rotated between left foot and right foot forward stops....goal line to blue line and back. Following that was the same, but after the stop, we dropped to butterfly, alternating which leg we got up with to push into the next T-Push...goal line to blue line and back. After that, we did C-Cuts around the face-off circles, did one lap cutting with our right leg, then stopped and went back the other way around the circle, cutting with our left leg. Followed that up by doing the same thing but going backwards. After that we did sideways shuffles, facing the boards from goal line towards blue line, at the halfway point, we switched sides so we were pushing with the opposite foot. Once we finished those we had a water break, then it was time for Up-Downs. Drop down to butterfly from ready position, then hop back up...talk about a leg & lung buster! We did 10 of those then shook it off by skating across the ice and then stretched it out a bit. From there we went to work on butterfly pushes and slides. I struggled a bit with my pushes because my skates have no inside edge on them at the moment, so it was very difficult to get any bite to push. Slides were great though, I am definitely stronger and more natural dropping my right knee and sliding that way than I am with my left. We started at the top of the crease, he would then yell "Go", we would track the puck to a steep angle and do our slide while he shot the puck. The focus was on keeping our elbows in and our back straight and tall, trying to keep a solid seal as we slid and squared to the puck. Again, going to the right was no problem for me and very natural, but I had to think too much when going to the left and it felt awkward. That about wrapped up our goalie only stuff, now it was time to face some shooters in drills. The skaters did a few different drills where they would start at the blue line, skate in about 10 feet then navigate around a tire, then slide the puck under a stick or two that was set up on two pucks, then navigate another tire making them circle back in to what equated to the high slot and they would shoot from there. We did that for about 7 minutes then we switched ends and shooters. From there they did a passing drill where they faced each other on a side of a tire, they would pass it once, twice, three times and the guy closest to the blue line would come in for a shot...that lasted about 7 minutes or so. Next drill was the coach standing along the side boards, and he would soft pass a puck in a direction to the right or left, pointing at which goal he wanted the skater to shoot on, similar thing where they would shoot from high slot, or come in for a deke. This wrapped up the clinic and I felt great at the end. Everything is feeling more and more natural each time I skate!

Found this last night. Not sure who's it was but I picked it up a few years back. Pretty sure I never used it. And of course my season is over til the fall.