Short stick? The essential skill all goalies need to have
By Coach Damon
When I first started my lacrosse career, I actually wasnât a goalie. I played middie. I was the Lax Middie Rat, if you will.
It wasnât until mid-season of my freshman year that I converted to goalie when our backup tore his ACL. Thereâs no doubt that starting at midfielder was tremendously valuable in helping me excel once I did make the transition to goalie.
Why? Â Because I already knew how to use a short stick.
And having great stick skills is something that every goalie should have!
Even if your very first position in the sport of lacrosse is goaltender, it is still essential that you learn to throw and catch with a short stick.
Youth (and experienced) players should not step into the goal without having thrown and become comfortable using a short stick. Itâs really hard to get in goal and save a shot that is moving 70-90 mph when you donât even know how to catch a pass with a lacrosse short stick. Itâs starts with basic fundamentals.
The first thing I make my goalie students do is to grab a short stick and thrown against a wall or with a friend. And practice, practice, practice! Throw against the wall everyday for at least a 1/2 hour until throwing left handed and right handed feels with a short stick feels comfortable.
In the dorms in college when I was learning the position, I drove my roommates nuts because I always had my stick in hand. Throwing fakes at their faces and having an occasional ball squirt loose and crash into their computers. Hey, I did bring some other positive qualities to the room.
If you love the sport of lacrosse like I do, this part should be easy. Iâd bring my stick everywhere with me. When youâre studying, take a 20 minute break and play catch on the wall. When youâre the grocery store, bring your stick and practice ball handling. Always working, always getting better with the stick and as a lacrosse player.
Learning to use a short stick is essential skill that all goalies needs to have. How do you developer short stick skills?
The greatest thing about it is that you can learn with just a stick, a ball, and a wall. Oh, and hours and hours of practice.
You have to fall in love with the process of becoming great.
Playing wall ball for hours is apart of the process and thereâs no better way to build your stick skills. Hereâs a specific wall ball routine that you can use to get comfortable with a short stick.
Standing about 7-10 feet away from a concrete wall perform 30 throws of each of the following. Try to limit yourself to a single cradle between each throw. You should attempt to throw the ball to the same spot on the wall or same exact brick every time so that the rebound comes to âthe boxâ near your head.
50 throws of each of the following â
- Right Hand Overhand
- Left Hand Overhand
- Right Hand Overhead, catch left side â Throw across your body so the rebound comes to the left side of your body.
Keeping the right handed grip on the stick, make the catch and bring the stick back to the right side. Repeat.
- Left Hand Overhead, catch right side â Same as above except reversed.
- Right Hand Side Arm â Drop your release and catch point down to a sidearm arm
- Left Hand Side Arm â Same as above except reversed.
- Throw Right, Catch Left â Throw with your right, while the ball is in the air, switch to the left and make the catch. After making the catch, switch back to right with a split dodge and repeat 29 more times.
- Throw Left, Catch Right â Same as above except reversed.
- Throw Right, Catch Left One Arm â Similar to above however now just use a single hand when catching the rebound. So you throw right and then catch the rebound on the left side of your body with the stick only in your left hand.
- Throw Left, Catch Right One Arm â Same as above except reversed.
- Right Handed Quick Stick â Move closer to the wall (5 ft.) and move your hands up the shaft to the mid or 3/4 point. Now we use no cradle in between throws. Catch and throw in a single motion. Cushion the catch like youâre catching an egg and then throw in single fluid motion.
- Left Hand Quick Stick â Same as above except reserved.
- Right Handed Quick Stick, Catch and Throw âCanadianâ style â Â Throw with your right and catch the ball on the left side with the right handed grip. Now throw from the left of your body using that same grip and catch on the right side.
- Left Handed Quick Stick, Catch and Throw âCanadianâ style â Same as above except reserved.
- Right Hand Overhand with a snap fake â In between each throw, after the catch now do a wrist fake (also called a quarter turn fake or a snap fake).
- Left Hand Overhand with a snap fake â Same as above except reserved.
- Run the Wall â If you have the space, run along the wall for 10-15 years while throwing and catching. When you reach the end wall is long enough, run along it for 10-12 yards while throwing against it and catching the rebound. When you reach the end of the wall, turn around and repeat using your opposite hand.
- Behind the Back Throws â The more things you can do with your lacrosse stick, the better youâll be.
If you do 50 repetitions of each of the following throws, thatâs about 900 reps and it should take about 20 minutes. This wall ball routine will not only help you build your short stick skills but its also a cardiovascular exercise as you should have a sweat going and an increased heart rate when youâve completed all the different drills.
This video from professional lacrosse player Kevin Crowley shows many of the throws above in motion:
Hereâs another video from Trilogy lacrosse with a demonstration of various wall drills you can use to improve your short stick skills:
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Hereâs a final video from Marcus Holman outlining his wall ball routine:
Being good with a short stick is a necessary element of being a dominate lacrosse goalie. Before starting to learn the skills essential to making saves, you should learn to catch and throw with a short stick.
20-30 minutes a day using the wall ball program outlined above will get you good with a shortie in no time.
After that, itâs time to jump in goal.
Until next time! Coach Damon
Have you found that learning to use a short stick improved your goalie game? Iâd love to hear about it in the comments!
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Vechernyaya Moskva correspondent Denis Vlasenko catches a ball flying into the goal during a lacrosse match / Photo: Anna Temnyshova / Vechernyaya Moskva
900 09 At the Moscow stadium Metallurg has passed a master class in lacrosse. The correspondent of “Evening Moscow” took part in the training, learned the secrets of the game and other features of this sport.
I enter the training ground and immediately notice the gates facing each other. I immediately remembered my childhood: after school I managed to play football on the school field and score a couple of goals against my opponents. Before starting the game, I warm up and do some simple exercises on my arms and legs to disperse the blood. After that, the head of the Moscow branch of the 6 Ă 6 Lacrosse Federation, Alexander Zarubin, gives me playing equipment.
First of all, I put on a helmet that resembles a hockey helmet, because it has a steel mesh that protects the player’s face. I tighten the straps on the helmet and secure them with latches. Then – elbow pads and gloves with soft linings, which are also similar to hockey ones. They give me a club with a net at the end in the form of a net, it is called a cross. I put a rubber ball in the net. It must be carried across the field and scored into the opponent’s goal.
âLacrosse is a contact sport where you can hit the hands and the cross to knock the ball away from the opponent,â Zarubin instructs me, after which he quickly hooks my cross with his own, which makes the ball jump out of my net. – You must always be on the alert and keep the cross with both hands.
After such a trick, I understand that the game will not be easy. The next exercise I work out serves. The coach throws the ball to me with one stroke of his cross, which I stop, and he ends up in my net. I repeat the service several times, after which the whistle sounds, and all the players gather in the middle of the field to start the game. There are six of us in the team.
I got the role of attacker. I go to the center of the field, get down on one knee and put my cross on the ball. The enemy stands in front of me and does the same. As soon as the signal for the beginning of the game sounds, we simultaneously lower our nets onto the ball. I fight for it, trying to push the opponent’s cross and capture the coveted ball into the net. It turns out with difficulty, but I succeed, and now I’m running to the opponent’s goal in order to earn the points necessary for victory.
One of the defenders is standing in front of me, who tries to hit the “net” to clear the ball, but I dodge, remembering the lesson, and go around him. Ahead I see the goalkeeper, who is preparing to repel my attack. I have to be cunning: I start the cross to the left side, as if I want to throw the ball, but I lower the stick with lightning speed and throw it into the opponent’s goal. Goal!
Each team has four, six or ten players. There are forwards, midfielders, defenders and a goalkeeper. After the referee has blown the whistle, the players must use their sticks and body to attempt to gain possession of the ball. A lacrosse match is divided into four equal time quarters. In play, the ball can be carried, thrown or hit with a club, rolled or kicked.
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The Lacrosse Game
Although ice hockey is the most famous and most popular of all stick games, many people also enjoy playing other hockey games, sometimes very peculiar ones. Competitions are also held on them, they are also included in the program of the Olympic Games. Very unusual lacrosse game. It is at the same time akin to ice hockey, rugby, and field hockey. Her name is also very unusual, because the word “lacrosse” can be translated from French as … “a curved bishop’s baton.”
This is explained by those who are playing sticks and really resemble the rod of one of the highest Catholic dignitaries. There is a version that lacrosse was played in France in the 14th century. Then the French settlers brought her to Canada, where she enjoys great popularity, yielding, however, to ice hockey. Another version of its origin is also widespread: it is believed that modern lacrosse originated from an old game of Canadian Indians called “boggathaway”. According to contemporaries, this elk-skin ball game was extremely exciting. So much so that in the middle of the 17th century, the soldiers of the English fort Michilinmakin looked so much at boggataway , which the Indians started near the walls of the fortification, that they missed the moment when other Indians made their way into the fort and captured it without any noise … Perhaps, the Indian boggataway really resembles modern lacrosse. Where is the truth? It is quite possible that two similar games originated in different regions, separated by the ocean, and then they turned out to be something in between on Canadian soil.
People love lacrosse for its dynamism, fascination, and also for the fact that the game makes very high demands on the participants. You need to be stamina, be able to run like a sprinter, and be fluent in a long racket-stick. A grass lacrosse field is longer than a football field, but also slightly narrower. Gates of a very unusual shape – triangular, are not installed on the front lines, but almost twenty meters in front of them. Therefore, the game goes beyond the gates, like ice hockey. Twelve players of the team are armed with long sticks. At the end of the club there is a triangular blade with a mesh stretched over it, forming a shallow pocket. It is interesting that, depending on the playing role, the racquet sticks of the participants in the game are different. The attackers have small blades on the clubs, allowing them to hit the ball hard and sharply. The defenders have more shoulder blades so that they can reflect the blows of the attackers. The goalkeeper has the largest stick with the largest spatula – he catches the balls aimed at the goal with it. The weight of a lacrosse ball, as defined by modern rules, is 142 grams and the circumference is 20cm. In the old days, balls for the game were made from a sea fungus, but now they use a rubber sponge. The goal of each team is to score the ball into the opponent’s goal, inflicting a strong and accurate blow with a stick-racquet. On occasion, you can hit the ball with your foot, but touching it with your hands, as in football, is strictly prohibited. There are lacrosse players all over the field. Often between them, as in ice hockey, there are power martial arts. In an effort to take the ball away, you can hit the opponent’s club with a club, but you can not hold it with your hand or foot. It is allowed to push the opponent with the shoulder or hip. You can block the opponent who has the ball. But power moves are used only when the opponent dribbles or receives the ball. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden to attack him from behind, as well as to use your hands. You cannot push an opponent if he is already fighting with another player.