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Summary: When playing hockey, you can catch the goalie by surprise with a wrist shot; learn how to snap your wrist and flick the hockey puck for a wrist shot in this free beginners hockey online video lesson.
For over 20 years, Reyno Benjamin has played Ice, Street, and Indoor (floor) Hockey, and currently plays on a professional Ice Hockey League. Reyno has coached the sport for many years...read more
" Hi I'm Reyno Benjamin with expertvillage.com. We are going to talk about a wrist shot. A wrist shot is basically, you are using your wrist to flick the puck, snapping the wrist at the last second. You bring the puck all the way in to get more velocity. You just put the puck or the ball from the back where you can just snap to the front. You let it slide to get some more velocity and it snaps in. Basically you want to catch the goalie by surprise. So you start here and you just shot it. You're still using your whole body, but it is all in the wrist. You take it from here and snap it. Same thing with a puck. We are going to use this rubber puck for right now. You want your puck here get you some well velocity and just snap it the front. Basically you want to cradle it. Cradle it from here to here and snap it. "