How To Develop A Harder Slap Shot

How To Develop A Harder Slap Shot: WINDUP: With your weight on your back leg, raise your stick back between waist and shoulder height.

DOWN SWING: Drive your stick down, stepping and leaning into the shot, transferring your weight forward onto your stick through your lower hand.

IMPACT: Your stick should strike the ice about two to four inches before coming into contact with the puck.

FOLLOW-THROUGH: As the puck rises off the ice, snap your wrists. Continue to follow through with your weight fully transferred to your front leg.



How To Develop A Harder Slap Shot: SHOT BLOCKS
Practice makes perfect, right? So practice. Drop a bunch of pucks onto the ice and rocket them at a block you set up as a target. This will improve both your shooting accuracy and power. The farther back you drive the block with the puck, the harder your shot is.

How to do it:
• Find a block of wood that’s approximately 12 inches square
• Place the block on the blue line — or at a distance you feel comfortable shooting.
• Stand about six feet back and shoot at the target.
• Try to drive the block back as far as possible with the puck
• Do this not just a few times, but a few hundred times.