Your eye should be level with the thumb of your top hand.
[YOUR EDGE] players Have your hands high.
If you can imagine a clock, you want your stick at 10 o’clock [for righty; 2 o’clock for lefty]. This way you’re never more than 6 hours away from a save, whether it’s a short one across the body, or the farthest one off side hip.
After you’re in good position, fi rst things fi rst is fi nd the ball. You’re looking at the head of the shooters stick. That’s the only place you should be focused on because that’s where the ball is coming from. You react from that. See the ball, drive your top hand and the rest of the body follow up.
My bottom hand is about waist- length apart from my top hand.
Where you hold your hands is about comfort level. For me, I like to have full control, so I hold the throat of my stick, on the plastic of the head, and almost have my fore fi nger and thumb on each side of the head. I think you have more control that way than on the shaft.
You want to be in a nice athletic posture. You don’t want to be standing up straight or hunched over. You want your knees slightly bent and feet a little bit more than shoulder width apart.
56 LACROSSE MAGAZINE April 2013>>
A Publication of US Lacrosse
©JOHN STROHSACKER
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