Footwork & Fundamentals Drill: Nearside Farside with Shooter's Walk

Here at Upper Echelon, I've wanted to make as much of my drills and ideas for training available to anybody who asks (or can download the files).  I'm going to add every day or so, one of my Footwork & Fundamentals' Drills for coaches, assistant coaches, and goalie instructors to use.  To kick this program of a drill dump, I'm going to start with a variation of the Nearside Farside Pushout drill that was part of the Back to Basics drill plans.  

The variation is the Nearside Farside Pushout with a Shooter's Walk.  For most of our F&F work this spring, I'm hoping to work more on movement transistions and movement chaining where goalies are forced change their movement selection from one form to another.  This movement selection transistion may also be combined with changes in direction or tempo.  The idea is to create more realistic drill scenarios that can help a goalie train in a predictable and consistent way.  The game of hockey is basically "barely contained organized chaos", but in order to allow a goalie to practice a skill, they must follow set patterns that give them a chance to execute the same repitition over and over again.

Anyways, the next downloadble drill has a enough meat on its bones to give the goalies several different challenges that apply to the game today.  Namely, plays that originate down low and move to the perimeter and shift east or west by the goalie's perspective.

Download here...http://www.upperechelongoaltending.com/downloads/footwork-fundamental-drills/NearsideFarsideShootersWalk.pdf