practice at home for tryouts

[All Torhs Team 0]

im 14..soon to be 15..wanting to make the midjet minor team. we will play in central states hockey leugue.

my local rink is one hour away....so i dont have as much ice practice as the guys tryin out. i like to practice at home...and have a fifty dollar net with a fifty dollar shooting pad. but cant use ice pucks cause they dont move on concrete. i thought about getting one of those pads that you put down thats like ice...but to expensive.

any ideas so i can practice my shot?

[colonials22 0]

Get those franklin practice pucks, they are plastic but they slide on the concrete pretty well

EDIT: I meant the hard plastic ones not the soft orange ones

[hockeydude_49 0]

Thats wat my situation is like too...smart hockey balls are the way to go. You can stick handle and shoot with them and you don't necessarily need a shooting pad, plus they don't wreck the cheepo nets like pucks do, and for stick handling jsut get a chair and stick handle in and out of the legs...Thats just what I do.

[twiztidwrista10 3]

I made some room in the basement and do a lot of stickhandleing drills with golf balls. I do the drills from this site...

http://edit.usahockey.com/ntdp/ntdp_featur...ce_drills_home/

PS, what team are you trying out for?

[lee92 2]

just get a piece of plexiglass or something to put down on the ground to shoot off of. thats what i do for in the back yard here, and on the streets.

[Adam91 0]

I know this has come up alot but what is the floor material made out of?

[biff44 0]

You can use the smart hockey ball or a golf ball for stickhandling practice. But do it right--no looking at the ball!

It is hard to practice shooting without real pucks, so you have to spend the $40 for the piece of plastic to shoot off of. If you hang an old rug between the goal and the wall, the pucks will not bounce off and kill you.

[All Torhs Team 0]

to twistedwrista----the team is Peoria Jr. Rivermen....out of central illinios. but still not sure if im really gonna tryout.

to adam-------im talking about outside on my driveway. ive shot and stickhandled in my basement alot...but it is litterally a cell. no windows or paint or anything. really depressing.

im pretty sure im gonna invest in one of these items

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but that rug idea sounds alot better than that tarp price.....ill give it a shot

[twiztidwrista10 3]

Cool, I played a peoria riverman team when i played bantam AA for omaha last year. lol, looking at that skillpad website, man Id hate to miss the net!

[Hockeyman9621 0]

Cool, I played a peoria riverman team when i played bantam AA for omaha last year. lol, looking at that skillpad website, man Id hate to miss the net!

I think you'd learn to hit it pretty quick.