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tuck, here's a little clip showing something along the lines of what you were talking about... though this is really simple, for controlling a puck into a turn or something like that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQ9ojU8vX8 ... i have a slowed down version i'll post in a minute, this ones a bit fast.

ok, not perfect, used the glove a tad, but a jury might not convict me in a game, haha! sorry some is lost with the horrific camerawork but you get the idea ay. basically just take the sting off the puck and bring it down gently and you can put it where you want, within reason.

i actually think many players stop the puck too early instead of letting it do as much work as possible by itself, and then using the momentum of the pass in their initial movements.... especially if a team-mate has passed you the puck. hopefully, they put that pass past you for a reason, cos they wanted you to go with it... and often they have a better view of whats around you than you do, as you're looking at the puck to get the pass.

nothing worse than throwing a decent pass for a team-mate to run onto only to have him reach out/back and knock it down as soon as he can reach it, and then see him get destroyed by an opposition player because he's made the puck static and put himself off balance.

controlling the puck like we're talking about is a nice medium between getting control asap and keeping the pucks momentum, i think. i'm all for it.

of course, if there is an opposition player close enough to hit you as soon as it lands, as you guys discuss above, then almost certainly he's also close enough to hit the puck before it lands too... and just because you have the skill to move the puck in the "air" to try to evade the tackle doesn't mean he can't follow that movement just as he was previously following the movement of the pass, and smash you in midair or at the new landing point of the puck... in short, i think it's helpful in keeping momentum and your swimming line or protecting the puck with your body asap, but pretty useless as a means to beat a guy in itself. (especially if you have a wispy little toothpick stick, as the easiest way to control the puck in the "air" is to use the flat of your stick, and the more flat the easier it is to do... doesn't stop some but is a general rule most of us have to follow. don't even get me started on those toothpick sticks... rant for another day)

cheers! liam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qvfryYhAQ0 ...slower

You are catching that puck with your hand, you dirty rotten cheat!

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Thanks Liam
I was forgotten to write the legal version off this move down.
Thanks for remembering.
Try next time to catch the puck with your stick (not the handle part)
You dont even then have to waith to trow the puck back till its landed.
Like a polo player( cath and trow) catch,
move some 10 cm in the same direction of the puck and the trow it back.
It can all in midwater be done.

But this one was near the bothem from the pool.
YOu can easy stop it by the bothem (legal) and then trow it back like you also did.
With the underside from the stick

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i know, i know, naughty boy... so you can throw the puck back to the guy who passed it to you sven? like, properly throw it, i dont mean just push at the puck in midair so it goes a couple of feet?

video that mate, it must be seen, i wanna learn it.

All in time boy. The video system is not repairt yet.
And then it is on VHS
in the vacation next summer we going to try to put the system to a laptop system.
So we can very easy share it.

But why throw the puck back to you opponent?
If you can catch it in midair you can chanche also the direction.
But i will try to photograph it next training.

But like some other skills i must also train it more to be effective.
Now it goes to much often wrong. :cry: to be already effective.
But sometimes it works already, so it can be done effective.
Call me mad or crazy but iff someting happens/works 1 time (even if it was by misstake)
i want to learn it to do it if i want it to happen.

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Try when training
Please ask somebody that can shoot in the direction he/she wants.
The first 2 stages i already now good. Stage 3: 1 out of 2 goes good.
Stage 4: sometimes i goes well.


1.Ask somebody to go shoot pucks to your side.
First low so you can catch them like you did but then leagal and shoot it back

2.And after a time ask that person to shoot higher.
Then try to catch them en turn the puck to the bothem.

3.The sweep you can pratice by trowing the puck sideways to midwater with 1 hand
and then try to catch/sweep it away with your playing hand/stick..(catching please like waterpolo first move 10-15 cm in the same direction as the puck when you have it. It give controll over the puck. After you can do the sweep.
((in this stage it dont matter were to. Only it can give a headage. I did hit my own head sometimes the first times)
There are more ways to pratisch the basic for the sweep before this one.

4.If it works good. Then try to give the puck not a hit! Not a trown! but a sweep after
catching it in midwater in a direction you want like you do in your movie.

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boy!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hmmm, i dont really like picking the puck up with my free hand to do anything. may as well just flip the puck up onto your stick and "sweep" it where you want to straight from the tiles, surely?

how on earth did you hit yourself in the head though sven? did you throw the puck into your head with your free hand? sounds a bit crazy.

No i did that when i did catch the puck with my stick and did try to sweep it away the first time.
But i will try to get some photos next fryday.

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