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Only problem with that move is the potential to get caught in a pretty weak or compromising position risking injury. You can ask Benny about that (re 99 SHC).

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Whats the name of 2:08 skill ?

nah sophie mareh is right. what you're referring to sounds like the "benson" pickup... which is basically an inverse hook push, while what mareh is talking about is pulling the puck using the same part of the stick.

oh, video video video...

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One goes clockwise, one goes anticlockwise.

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That "inverse" curl, can be very usefull if you are already swimming upside down with the puck. A few of the French Canadians got pretty good at swimming upside down on a break away so they could more easily look above them as they swam. From that point the best way to protect the puck is to curl in that fashion, OR if you want to turn back over start with the same motion, but as the puck comes down to your side rather than curl, roll the puck back to the front of the stick roll over to "normal" body position and keep going forward.

...why would you ever turn, for starters...

and really, if you want to turn back over, are you seriously suggesting that doing that would be faster or somehow more effective than just... turning over and flipping your stick over? pulling back like that might possibly be a positive if you want to draw the tackle back slightly and then punch through it, but most tacklers hitting you there will already be swimming next to you in a chase position and you'll just get it ripped off you anyway.

also, if for some reason you DID want to turn and stop, then it might be ok to turn like that to your left... (your left if you were the right way up, right hander...), but if you had a guy on the left chasing then its pretty much the ideal position to use a barrel roll to your right instead for your turn, in fact pretty much the only situation in which a barrel roll is effective.

i find situations like that to use it as a back when tackling forwards... but you have to be pretty careful you dont have a guy on the other side of you waiting.

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Hey Soph, perhaps take a trip back down to Belle and get her to video it with her new camera! Then chuck it on youtube.

but what will i wear??!!
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yeah i might just do that, then i can get some more tips.

Maybe borrow a pair of Belle's Aussie swimmers. I know Tommy would lurve to see that!

ok, this link is an INVERSE HOOK PUSH (aka the benson) ...inverse because the stick is upside down, hook because the puck is played on the hook, push because the move is pushing the puck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uU3rAWEjqs

...and this link is the opposite, an INVERSE HOOK PULL ... ditto the above but pulling the puck and on the other side of the body

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO6G5ygqgMw


note that though i say hook for easy reference, it's possible and preferable to use the top face of the stick for these skills instead of the actual hook in some situations.

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