Best practice with only you and your goal?

[alex001]

what do you guys reccomend instead of just right and left hand stationary shooting?

[Aesop Rock]

Never shoot stationary, shoot on the run. Shoot left handed, right handed, behind the back, under hand, overhand. Make it interesting and fun. Practice High-Low fakes, Picking Corners......theres a lot you can do by yourself

[mdawg]

you need to practice shooting stationary too. its not like it doesnt happen in a game. but mostly on the run over hand. try shooting to the opposite corner of the direction you are running.

[faceitoff]

Goalies can read side-arm shots better than overhand shots.

[Lax101]

true, but if you're doing a shot on the run and you shoot "across your body" (in other words if you're running towards one side of the goal and you shoot it so the ball ends up in the other direction...like you're running to the left and you shoot the ball to the right corner instead of the left-a little complicated but I saw it in the Million DVD), then goalies will usually be fooled by that.

Try Long Range (usually stationary or at least with a decent crank), short range (quick shots off of dodges or maybe some quick stick fakes to fool the goalie), and shooting on the run (if you have Millon's DVD he does an incredible job of demonstrating shooting on the run). Also, try some sidearm, 3/4, underhand, weak hand, whatever shooting.

If you don't have one of those fancy target covers with your goal, just put pieces of masking tape diagonally over corners or certain areas (like if you're doing a corner tape one side to the other to make a right triangle), which will help your shooting accuracy.

[CornerPicker22]

Do a whole lot of these:

Stand at an imagenary GLE, throw out a gound ball, sprint to it.. turn around and immediately pick a corner. Vary your shots- under, side and over. Keep moving while you shoot, imagine you have a defender on you who tried to pick up the gound ball too. Excellent as it works on ground balls, game speed/simulation and shot accuracy. Pretty fun too.

Something that really helped me was getting one of those sharp shooters from like lax.com.. they're worth the 50-100 bucks.. mine cost 50 at a local sports shop.. leaves just about 6-10 inches between all sides of the material to pick a shelf or side or whatever.

Try also a move and then IMMEDIATELY a shot. Like any other skill bilder you will have to run in this one but it helps with hand placement. After a while it becomes second nature and so when you get that quick pass in a game you can get a quick shot off without even planting your feet.

At a camp they told us to stand stationary at the goal, right out side the crease and hit a corner over and over and over and over (stand on the left half of the crease and hit the right corner with your right hand, vice versa)... back up 1 foot, do it again and again again. Dunno, helped me quite a bit.. plus the ball will come right back to you if you hit the corner right :-D.

Have fun, I love blasting my goal when I come home from school.. but my neighbors hate it when I break the fence all the time.. oh well.

[ex-lax]

how do you do an underhand shot

[1/2man1/2amazin]

how do you do an underhand shot

Try to think of a baseball pitcher throwing overhand.
Now think of him throwing underhand.

You need to be able to cradle the ball very low, take it back to almost hip level, step into the shot and bring the stick down almost along the ground. It allows you to get awesome torque on your shot, but can take a while to gain any sort of accuracy. But like anything keep practicing.

If you've ever watched a game on tv or anything, or watched good players im sure you've seen an underhand shot before, maybe you just call it something different.

[GBaschski]

I practice accuracy with normal wall ball, but I practice shooting by standing about 10-15 yards from a brick wall, setting up, stepping a couple times, and just yanging it as hard as I can. I aim low, so the ball either bounces off the ground and hits the wall, or hits the wall and bounces back to me. This exercise isn't for accuracy, but power. With enough power, all you need it to get it on net in the right place and you've got a point.
And if you shoot long enough, as hard as you can, you'll start building up arm muscle.

[Viperlaxer132]

Shot speed is great but accuracy can beat it any time. I can wind up and shoot 80 at the goalie all I want but if you have really good accuracy you can make one move and shoot about 50 and make a goal every time. As for practice with a goal make targets (with tape or whatever you can think of) and shoot on the run and stationary with both hands. Im pretty good lefty, but I still shoot about 5 lefty shots to every 1 righty just to try to make them as even as possible.