| Importance of Dry Land Drills??
I got into a discussion with my brother the other day on the importance of dry land walk through on team drills. Not just, set plays like advantage pucks or strike plays, but on all points of the game. Like how to bring the puck off the wall, or stall the puck on the wall, offensive corner, defensive corner, etc... Therefore, his opinion was spacing and timing and general vision of what is happening cannot be mimicked on dry land, you need to be in the pool. My thoughts are that communication and distractions are such that dry land drills should be a very large part of team training and hammering in the movements (even if the speed and spacing is not accurate out of the 3 dimensions of the water) till everyone on the team is without mistake, then moving to the water to refine the team work.
So where does everyone stand? From a players point of view or a coaches?
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