SNAPSHOTS?

[Zjack38 46]

So I honestly have no clue what a snapshot is, a lot of people give me different answers or instructions on how to take one also. Some people tell me it's just shooting with my body facing the net, and other say to snap down with your stick on the puck. I play a pretty high level of hockey to so this is kind of embbarrassing, so how do you take a snapshot?

[Chadd 916]

You'll get a dozen different answers here too. Everything from a half slapshot to a no windup shot. I say that it has to have no windup and the shot starts from a stickhandling position, but many people will disagree with me. When I take a snapper, I press down and forward with my bottom hand to load the stick and follow through to the net as I would with a wrist shot.

[Zjack38 46]

That's what I usually do and my coaches tell me to do something else it get kind of confusing.

[avery16 5]

id say watch jeff carter shoot.. no wind up, just a bit of the snap of the wrist, follow thru like a wrister..

[Capt.Hook 23]

You're coach may be an older school coach and referring to the older style of snap shots.

My belief is that the increase in technology in carbon fibers has allowed all of us to utilize the "whip" of sticks which allows us to use no wind up shots to great effect that would not have been possible with the older wood/glass models.

An old school snapshot is one of two types. #1 pull the puck in to the body and shoot out of that motion. Drag it with the front of the blade/toe and then as it comes in, lean on the stick and shoot. #2 the 1/4 wind up slap shot. It's like a mini slap shot. You actually have a back swing, just very small. I believe I've seen a whole thing on Olli Jokinen doing them on You Tube somewhere.

I agree that the new snapshot is a ultra quick release, no wind up shot that takes place out of the stick handling position. Just lean and get as much body into it as possible and follow through.

In my experience though the old school snap shots either involve that drag-in motion and shoot or a mini wind up.

Don't know if that helps or not but best of luck to you bud!

[Souldriver 64]

I agree with hook. Growing up snappers were a mini slspshot type of thing. Now they're more of a quick wrist snap motion that uses the flex of the stick to really get your velocity and your wrists for your accuracy. Almost like snapping a whip, almost.

[Souldriver 64]

So looking at how the nhl rules it this is a snap shot. a good look on the replay after the goal too.
http://video.avalanche.nhl.com/videocenter/console?hlg=20122013,2,196&event=MIN519

It seems that they say a snap shot is when the blade and puck are not touching ( this could also be you cradling and giving the puck a little space) and the player makes a wrist shot type motion (blade drags along ice, no windup etc) and snaps their wrist on contact to shoot.

a wrister seems to be by them the classic roll the puck on the blade motion but the puck is on your blade and youre not meeting it on the ice.

Once again this is how the nhl is scoring them in the books, so take it as you will. but a snapper doesnt need to be as dramatic as the one in the video, it can be much more compact.