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Konig von Kuhlem

Time Slow Down during stick handling move

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I practice various stick handling moves by myself all the time, but during a game all my fancy stick work seems to disappear. Anyway, I just finished playing a game tonight and usually I don't pull many moves out during games, so no one was expecting anything. I picked up the puck in the offensive zone along the right wing boards just above the faceoff circle and brought it towards the net on my forehand (I shoot right-handed). A single defender, who is usually pretty good, was in front of their goalie and I thought, "I have to try a move". I dragged the puck under the defenders stick on my forehand, went around him, caught it on my backhand, pivoted and switched to my forehand and roofed it over a sprawling goalie. The strangest thing happened during that sequence - time seem to SLOW DOWN! :huh: This was new to me. Has anybody else found this happen while performing dekes?

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that's called being in the zone. i get that a lot when i play tennis, but not as much in hockey. just enjoy that feeling. it means the practice you've been doing is working.

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Yep. I 2nd the jackals words.

It happens to me every game(but not nearly as much as I would like it too!), usually when I'm under pressure i the corners I might make a lightning quick deke without thinking about it, it just happens like 2nd nature and steams from all the muscle-memory you get from practicing.

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It used to happen to me all the time in baseball. I'd also field a ball and be throwing it by the time I realized what I was doing... It's a good thing. Doesn't seem to happen in hockey although I still do things before I think about it a lot.

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Exactly what happened to me when I pulled the Jussi Jokinen move around a goalie last week!

I'm wondering if it has something to do with controlling adrenaline and thinking quickly but thoroughly. Maybe combining muscle memory with reaction with split-second creativity. Whatever it is, it's really sweet and I want to do it more :D

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That is why top players practice really basic things over and over and over. Their body learns how to do the move without the (bad) influence of the mind!

They did a study once of golf putters. They tested a bunch of them while putting. Then they had them putt again, but while counting backwards from 100 in their mind. They all did much better!

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They did a study once of golf putters. They tested a bunch of them while putting. Then they had them putt again, but while counting backwards from 100 in their mind. They all did much better!

Interesting...seems that would make them focus less on thinking about it and more on muscle memory and "feel". I'll try counting backwards next time I'm on the ice...although I have a feeling I'll probably fall over or something :lol:

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I read a book about hockey and it was parly abnout Gretzky and it claims that your brain "gears" work faster and that is tied to some reason why time seems to slow down. (sry dont know all the info just remembering)

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For those of you that have never experienced it...

It's almost like the 2k series and the goalie control. How it slows down and from my experience I could hear things very clearly. Mostly my coach, my teammates and some fans too. It feels like you have all day long to do something that happens in a split second. It's very weird but it's one of those feelings you don't forget nor do you want to.

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That has happened to me twice in the last few games. The first time it happened, I got hit and caught an edge going down and twisten my leg. I sprained my ankle and me knee, but it was weird, while going down it was like in slow motion and it seemed as if I could have moved my skate out of the edge, but I couldn't. I sat out 2 weeks and then yesterday was my first game back and the second time that "the Zone" has occured. I was on the opposite side of the net from where my team mate hadling the puck was. I don't know how, but the puck had managed to rumage through at least a couple defenders and one of my other team mates and it some how landed on my tape. There was about a foot or so opened on the net so I jammed it in. I was all in slow motion.

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Happens to me every time I try to stickhandle to the net and if i end up scoring I usually don't even know what I did or how I got the puck in the back of the net.

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I've started to get it when recieving bad passes, which is good because I'm dropping my head in the process and I can still comprehend what's going on around me with my peripheral vision... hopefully this means the beginning of good things.

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Yeah this happened again last weekend. Drew out the goalie, faked a shot, and dropped the puck to a teammate for a wide open shot on goal. Same thing where I was more aware of the ice and I was able to pull off a move that I normally would choke on.

Seems this has got to really be a "Zen" thing where you calm and slow your mind to the point that instinct takes over. And if I can do it after playing for four months, no reason anyone else can't.

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