where do you practice?

[Super Star 0]

Just wondering where do people practice their shooting off ice and what they use - a real puck, roller hockey puck, ball or something else and what stick. And where people that don't have garages or a goal set up in their back yard do their sooting?

[clarke-BOH 0]

I use a metal hockey net, a large sheet of plastic to shoot the pucks off of, and weighted pucks. As for the stick i use an old shaft and a wood blade.

[davis 0]

clarke...what kinda plastic sheet do you use and where did you get it?

[sabre09923 0]

Skillpad+Net in my backyard. Only stretches about 50 feet end to end, but that's perfect for long range practicing. I've tried stickhandling in my basement, but I found out that my smartballs actually roll better on my skillpad, for some reason. Now I stickhandle outside.

Use my game stick to shoot too!

[Spreedizzle 1]

Smooth concrete in my 2 car garage, pull all the cars out, and I have a 4x8 piece of plywood against the wall with a goal painted on there and the "holes" that I want to hit. In the few years I have been doing it....only shot 2 pucks through the sheet rock. :P

[BK 0]

Right now I wreak havoc on the hardwood floor in my breakfast room (Cheap hardwood floor job..). It scuffs but if you use a well taped up stick, its easy to remove the scuffs. When we finally buy a place, I am going to get a practice net and paint my garage floor with protective paint. I used to use a ball until I found a weighted slide puck at my lhs.

[chikinpotpie 137]

I usually practice doing shots at the pub down the street.

[Dougie8 0]

I practice out on my back deck. It has a roof over it so I can go out in the rain and in the winter. I use a official sized metal net. A sheet of plexi glass (my dad used to travel around to baseball and hockey tournaments and have a hardest throw/shot, winner would win a stick or glove or something. He used the plexi glass for hockey tournaments out in the parking lot, so i'm not sure where he got it from.) I just use my regular sticks out there because the plastic isnt hard on them at all.

[ghockey11 0]

my basement i have a shooting room with free weighs and a full sized net and length from shooting board to the net is about from the top of the circles to the net old rbk sickick and weighted pucks