CATCH CARDS
Have a coach or friend standing up in front of you, on a bucket for example. That simulates the elevation of a shot coming over the top.
They toss cards at you one at a time. You drive your top hand through. You’re focusing on a fluttering card.
TRY YOUR BEST
You know you’re not going to catch every card, so you have to focus on the next card that comes out. The biggest need for a goalie is to focus on the next shot coming.
REPEAT IT
You can’t overdo it. You’re strengthening to the point where you can give up five goals in a row, and then come back and make six or seven saves in a row.
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ALTERNATE REALITY
Making 27, 28 or 29 saves, to be honest, it feels pretty good, but it also doesn’t feel real. During a game you’re not really counting saves. You’re focusing on the next shot. Once the game is over, you hear the stats or review film and look back at each save and see how well you were seeing and reacting to the ball that day.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
Joining Florida this year was a great experience for me; playing with guys like Tucker Durkin, PT Ricci, Kieran McArdle, Chris Mattes and the rest of the team was rewarding. I was honored to be able to play with a veteran like Casey Powell, someone who I grew up watching and who dominated the sport. Playing with Lyle Thompson was a challenge, especially in practice. He’s such an accurate and deceptive shooter.
NUMBERS GAME » This is
a positioning, mental and numbers game. Have a coach or partner in front of the crease. He or she holds up either a 1 or a 2 with either hand. The coach is facing the goal.
RIGHT, LEFT, 1 OR 2 » If T
he goalies I admired growing up were Brian
Dougherty and Drew Adams. Adams. They’re from the same high school (Springfield-Delco, Pa.) and taught me everything I knew.
your partner holds up a 1 with the right hand, the goalie moves left, one step on your five-step arc. If your partner holds up 2 with the right hand, you would move two steps to your pipe on your left side. If your partner does that with the left hand, you move one or two steps along the left of the arc.
ADVANCED » What gets
confusing is if I cross my right arm over and point to the left with a one or a two. You still move to your left along the arc. This simulates focusing not on a fake, but where the ball or shot is.
October 2015 » LACROSSE MAGAZINE 53
©MARK SELDERS (AK); ©JOHN STROHSACKER (DA)
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