Goalie Training & Lessons
Unlock Your Potential: Elevate Your Game with Extra Hour's Goalie Training!
The difference between good and great often lies in the details—the precise, focused training that turns potential into excellence. Our coaches are not just trainers; they are mentors dedicated to every aspect of goalie development. With training equipment tailored for goalie-specific skill enhancement, we offer a positive training environment that fosters growth, resilience, and success.
At Extra Hour, we understand that being a great goalie is not just about physical skills. It's also about mental toughness, strategic thinking, and a positive mindset. Our training programs include positive motivation and psychological instruction to build not just the athlete, but the individual. With instant feedback and focused personal instruction, we create an environment where goalies can learn and grow.
Beyond Physical Skills
At Extra Hour, we understand that being a great goalie is not just about physical skills. It's also about mental toughness, strategic thinking, and a positive mindset. Our training programs include positive motivation and psychological instruction to build not just the athlete, but the individual. With instant feedback and focused personal instruction, we create an environment where goalies can learn and grow.
- Positive coaching to instill self-confidence
- Refine motor patterns and enhance athleticism in goaltenders
- Learn key areas to focus on for solid goaltending
- Puck Control- rebounds, freezing pucks, stick handling
- Positioning- angles, depth, tracking the puck, being square to the shooter
- Stance- basic, butterfly, position, balance
- Movement- T-push, C-cut, Pivot, Pivots into T-push, shuffles, slides
- Save Selection/Save Cycle: Find the puck (eyes first), Movement (getting into position), Position (stance, angles, square to the puck, depth), Save selection (appropriate to the situation), Puck control (rebounds and recovery)
- NHL regulation net on moorings
- Boni Puck Shooting machine- tracking the puck
- Video analysis for self-correction and to measure player improvement
- Private or semi-private individualized training for skill development, positive motivation, and psychological instruction (that often does not happen in team practice settings).
- Focused personal instruction with instant feedback to create smarter, stronger, more skilled, and more confident goalies.
- No other local off-ice skill development program offers as much individualized goalie training to mirror on-ice scenarios.