Soft Hands...Amazing

[Muzza_77 0]

Hey, I was reading some past threads, and got a link to the USA hockey website, I watch some of the videos, one of the videos was about developing soft hands. For the drill you got a toilet roll or PVC pipe, I used a toilet roll. You slip the toilet roll onto the stick. Your lower hand holds onto the toilet roll, so your stick can rotate freely. I saw results within 10 minutes, now after 30 mins I am better. When I came back to the computer, I noticed that I wasn't holding my mouse as hard as I usually do..lol.

Try it.

[DavisP 0]

Cool tip. thanks. It helps hand speed more than you'd imagine. :)

[srv2miker 0]

Cool tip. thanks. It helps hand speed more than you'd imagine. :)

Back in my day we didn't fancy toilet paper rolls to build hand speed. We just went behind the woodshed and...well never mind, we just built quick hands! And don't get me started on "grip" sticks either. Back in my day we just went behind the woodshed and...well never mind, we just got our sticks sticky!

[LkptTiger 1]

...you've effectively ruined the thread.

[Jake 0]

That was a comedy goldmine.

[DavisP 0]

Cool tip. thanks. It helps hand speed more than you'd imagine. :)

Back in my day we didn't fancy toilet paper rolls to build hand speed. We just went behind the woodshed and...well never mind, we just built quick hands! And don't get me started on "grip" sticks either. Back in my day we just went behind the woodshed and...well never mind, we just got our sticks sticky!

It sounds like back in you day you had too much time on your hands... along with other things. ;)

[Quintin 16]

Isn't there a tool called "soft hands" as well, like you slide it in through the blade side of the stick and it goes onto the shaft?

[zochi 1]

I might go and try that it seems like a really effective way to develop those N.H.Lers hands that everyone wants.

[srv2miker 0]

I might go and try that it seems like a really effective way to develop those N.H.Lers hands that everyone wants.

What, the toilet paper roll or the woodshed? Y'know, if you were really efficient (and talented), you'd take full roll of toiletpaper behind the woodshed, and come out with the empty roll.

[zochi 1]

haha the paper roll

[TBLfan 25]

If you really want soft hands you can work on hacky sack-ing a smarthockey ball or roller ball. Then catch the ball on your blade, it also helps develope memory of where your blade is which helps with deflections.

Another way to help with soft hands is moisturizer but that's a whole nother forum.

[LkptTiger 1]

Another way to help with soft hands is moisturizer but that's a whole nother forum.

...you're only fanning the flames.

[srv2miker 0]

Another way to help with soft hands is moisturizer but that's a whole nother forum.

In my day we didn't use moisturizer; we used broken glass! Softens them up good. It made things a litte more difficult behind the woodshed, but dammit we were tougher back them.

[shnuggs 0]

Hey, I was reading some past threads, and got a link to the USA hockey website, I watch some of the videos, one of the videos was about developing soft hands. For the drill you got a toilet roll or PVC pipe, I used a toilet roll. You slip the toilet roll onto the stick. Your lower hand holds onto the toilet roll, so your stick can rotate freely. I saw results within 10 minutes, now after 30 mins I am better. When I came back to the computer, I noticed that I wasn't holding my mouse as hard as I usually do..lol.

Try it.

Ya been using that website for about a year.

For some reason -- its not working for me anymore-- wont play on real player. Its working fine for you eh ?

[Muzza_77 0]

Yeah it works fine for me, I play them in quicktime on my mac.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Sorry to bump this old thread, but does anyone have a link to these drills? I cant seem to find them on the USA Hockey website.Thanks

[revolutionz_s13 0]

Here is the link for the website with all the videos:

http://www.usahockey.com/Template_Usahocke...AHockeyType=ICE

and here is the link for that specific video:

http://usahockey.vo.llnwd.net/o10/ntdp%20v...PVC%20Tubes.wmv

Google is your friend.

[fatwabbit 93]

tried the toilet paper rolls before and it works wonders.

[Hoffer 0]

Thank you for links to these videos they look like they could really help.

[TBLfan 25]

I'm still a big fan of hacky-sacking a smarthockey ball for soft hands. If you can catch a ball on your blade you can recieve a pass, simple as that. It's great for hand-eye coordination too.

[Sven 1]

I'm still a big fan of hacky-sacking a smarthockey ball for soft hands. If you can catch a ball on your blade you can recieve a pass, simple as that. It's great for hand-eye coordination too.

So you are talking about bouncing this hackysack off the blade up and down? Just to get sure i got it right.

[shute 4]

I might go and try that it seems like a really effective way to develop those N.H.Lers hands that everyone wants.

What, the toilet paper roll or the woodshed? Y'know, if you were really efficient (and talented), you'd take full roll of toiletpaper behind the woodshed, and come out with the empty roll.

:lol: best i've heard in a while!

[Aussie Joe 0]

Best drill for soft hands that ever worked for me was playing ice again. the extra rebound and slide whilst puckhandling really gives me ultra soft touch with the inline puck.

PS: The whole Woodshed thing really isn't that much of an advantage, I mean c'mon there'd have to be a tonne of guys on here that do that and they aint playing that much better. ;)

[TBLfan 25]

I'm still a big fan of hacky-sacking a smarthockey ball for soft hands. If you can catch a ball on your blade you can recieve a pass, simple as that. It's great for hand-eye coordination too.

So you are talking about bouncing this hackysack off the blade up and down? Just to get sure i got it right.

yes... then catching the ball on the blade. Just doing basic tricks, it's fun and it helps.

[Jarick 5]

I was out shooting some pucks outside a local rink when a group of kids and coaches came around for dryland practice. Here's what the coaches were doing:

Soft Hands - (back and forth as fast as possible with little movement), knees bent, head up, facing forward, for 30 seconds at a time. This will burn those wrists and forearms. Alternate between smart hockey ball and golf ball.

Then do this for 30 seconds to your left (still facing forward), and 30 seconds to your right (still facing forward). This helps get the puck feel and control while protecting the puck. Stickhandling on your off side (on my right for left handers) is a good challenge.

Doing these with your head up, and even with your eyes closed, really helps get the feel for the puck. Yes it's different on ice, but it seems to translate well.

Also, the drills where you stickhandle in front of you, to the front and side, then side, then back and side for 30 seconds in each position, is a killer. If you can work your way from your back left to your back right doing 30 seconds each position keeping your head up, you have some soft hands.

And the last drill I was working on was stickhandling for 10 seconds on your left side then quickly moving to your right. It's hard to explain, but you see it in the Sean Skinner videos. Your weight is on the left leg and you're stickhandling in front of it, then you bring the ball quickly to the right while jumping to your right leg and stickhandling in front of it. This is useful for deking defenders.

And finally we were "hacking" with a golf ball and smart hockey ball, both trying to bounce it as many times as possible and the toss and hold.

I've done all these exercises before, but not seriously enough or long enough to make progress. Spending 5 minutes on each of these exercises stickhandling for 30 seconds at a time would give you some pretty soft hands after a couple weeks. And after that, switch to another exercise from the USA hockey page once you master an old one.