Gripping Ice Hockey Sticks

Video Transcript

"I am going to be showing you the grip today of how to hold a hockey stick properly. If you're a righty like myself, you're going to hold your left hand at the top of this stick. For the most part when you're playing, you're going to keep this hand in this position for the most of the time. Your other hand however is going to be doing the most moving. General stick handling position, it's going to be about a elbows length down the shaft. But when you're shooting a puck, you're going to usually slide it down towards the middle to get better leverage on the shot. But if you're stick handling, it's going to be about down to here. So you can have better control. Also, if you want to, I am going to show you how to hold a goalie stick properly. You're going to wrap your hand around the smaller part, the bottom of the smaller part of the stick. Wrapping all your fingers but your index finger is going to stay out pointing outwards. And also, the goalie for the most part only has one hand on the stick but once in a while, the goalie will use two hands similar to a shooter to play the puck. So the glove hand is the right hand is going to stay up here if you're a righty and the left hand is going to, similar to the, for the shooter, it's going to be about middle way down the shaft of the blade to play the puck. And that's the basic grip on how to hold the stick properly, properly."