Method and apparatus for hockey stick handling training

Abstract

A hockey training kit comprising one or more steel practice balls of varying weights and diameters. Each of the steel balls is heavier than a hockey puck and is used for stick handling practice. The method of the invention includes teaching the proper wrist hand and arm motions for stick handling and offers training session schedules for significantly improving stick handling skills in 60 days.

Description

BACKGROUND OR THE INVENTION [0001] The invention provides a method and apparatus for training a hockey player to control a hockey puck or ball with a hockey stick. The invention specifically teaches the proper hand, wrist and arm motions for stick handling, builds strength and endurance in stick handling muscles and provides the user with an opportunity to quickly improve stick handling skills. [0002] Ice hockey is played on ice with a hockey puck sliding on the ice. Each player uses a hockey stick to control or direct the puck in a desired manner with the objective of shooting the puck into a goal. The act of a single player maintaining control of the puck with a hockey stick is called stick handling. Other types of hockey are also played on non-ice surfaces using balls and pucks, e.g. street hockey, floor hockey and field hockey. In street, floor and field hockey a ball or a puck may be used on non-ice surfaces, but the skills of stick handling are similar in all hockey type games...

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Benefits of technology

[0013] The stick handling training is initiated by applying a first torque to the hockey stick shaft using the upper hand. This rotates a blade of the shaft which is in contact with a practice rolling element thereby rolling the rolling element across the practice surface in a first direction. The user then lifts the stick blade over the top of the moving element using the lower hand, to position the stick blade on an opposite side of the rolling element and to s

Problems solved by technology

This is not enough time to learn and practice stick handling.

As a result, youth players are not skilled or confident enough to stick handle at a desired level by the time they reach high school and college hockey programs.

It is a specific problem that many hockey players do not perform enough stick handling motion repetitions to reach the required proficeincy level and this is especially the problem in current youth hockey programs.

It is important to note that stick handling can be done by other motions of the hands and arms but that these other motions are inefficient and will generally not lead to the player achieving a high proficieny at stick handling skills.

Although a player may achieve some success with this motion, it is not a desirable motion for stick handling and its use will ultimately cause the player to perform below a level that coaches find acceptable.

Accordingly, it is a further problem that hockey players do not learn the proper stick handling motions and instead train their muscles to perform incorrect motions.

This is further compound

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