How To Create Goalies For Your Team!

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How To Create Goalies For Your Team!
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Spotting a Goalie - What should you look for?

1. Athlete - should be one of your best kids
2. Quickness - looking for explosiveness
3. Aggressiveness - look for the kid with a nose for
   the ball
4. Toughness - who can mentally handle it
5. Leadership - do other players respond to them
6. Communication - are they a vocal player
7. Stickwork - should be one of your best handlers

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Whats the 1 thing you can do to increase Goalie
retention?
Keep them involved in every drill! Goalies are
field players too! Dont just leave them in cage
to get rocked all practice!
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Where to start?

• 1. Stick
• create a good pocket loosen pocket from sidewall
  strings
• 2. Helmet - proper fit mounted throat protector
• 3. Other equipment - close fitting, minimal bulk
  possible (ie - no softball leg guards)

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Stance

• Athletic position
• Feet shoulder width balls of feet
• Slight flex in the knees
• Shoulders back
• Arms up and out
• Hands 12-16 apart top hand on throat of stick
  and bottom hand at middle of shaft

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Stance
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Stepping to ball

• Draw line down middle of body
• Shots to right side, step with right foot
• Shots to left side, step with left foot
• Always lead with hands - head and body follow
• 2. Down the line - the most important drill for
  your beginning goalie
• High
• Mid
• Low
• Head and shoulders over ball - shooter should see
  top of helmet
• Should be able to stand up into Ready position

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Individual Drills

• Use tennis balls with beginning GKs
• Down the line - no stick - emphasizes hands to
  ball
• Down the line - boys field stick
• Rebound off wall
• Close eyes - open when you say shot
• GKs need quality reps from coaches!
• Dont rely on your players to warm up GKs. You
  must CONTROL the shots!

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Team Drills

• Use cones to control where players shoot from
• Limit GK reps in drills with lots of shots
• 1 v 1s, 2 v 2s, 3 v 3s (US Double Drill)
• A. Use GK as attacker defender too
• 8 meters
• Transition (man up, down, even)
• Settled
• Clears (Greatest Drill Ever)
• A. Bring GK out of crease
• Ride
• A. Use GK as a defender out of crease

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Other things for GKs to do when not facing shots

• Jump Rope - one of the single best things for a
  GK
• Fast feet / Ladder
• Juggle
• Wall ball
• Clear to trash can (How many can the make in 5
  mins)
• Be a feeder in team drills
• 7. Play offense and defense in drills