Skill Development:

• Explain grip of stick
  • Hold with 2 hands; place "pencil hand" at middle of stick with thumb pointing down, place other hand at the side of the top of the stick also with thumb pointing down
  • Hold stick so blade is flat on the floor
  • Pose in "bubble gum card position"
    • Hold stick as if you were getting a picture taken for your own bubble gum card
• Explain "high sticking"
  • Must carry stick so blade stays below knees
  • Any stick that goes higher that knees is an automatic 2:00 penalty for high sticking
• All with puck and stick
  • Dribble puck side to side without moving your feet
  • How fast can you get the puck going without losing control of it?
  • Continue to dribble puck, but know move around gym using various locomotor movements:
    • Skip, gallop, walk, power walk, hop, jump, jog, run
  • On signal, freeze in the bubble gum card position
• All now dribble around the gym, keeping control of the puck
  • Teacher can try to steal a puck from anyone
  • If teacher steals your puck with his stick, you must try to steal it back from him
• Continue, but now if your puck is stolen, teacher puts it away
  • Now you help teacher in trying to steal other people's pucks and put them away also
  • Continue until there are only a few students left with their puck
  • Repeat game

Application:

• 2 man relays
  • All with a partner, stand one behind the other along the purple line facing the dividing wall
  • Each has own stick and one puck to share
  • Give them a set amount of time (:30, :60) to see how many times they can dribble the puck down to the wall and back in that amount of time
  • See if they can beat their best score
• "Fire Engine" in small groups
  • All stand along same purple line with the other members of their group
  • When you call out the name of a team, that group dribbles the puck down to the wall and back as fast as possible
  • Try to beat best time for each group
• Tunnel tag with pucks
  • All with own stick and puck
  • Pick certain color of stick to be "it"
  • They try to dribble their puck to try to tag others
  • Other players have to dribble their puck to get away
  • If caught, they must stand with their legs apart and their stick held against their leg
  • Someone else must come up to them and pass their puck through their legs to get them back in the game