New tactic for goalies

[laxman19]

For goalies or I guess whoever wants to do it I found out if you take a rubber band then fling at your ceiling and try to catch it when it comes back it increases your reaction time and your hand-eye cordination.The harder you fling it at he ceiling he faster it will come back so be ready!

[goalieskcickay]

Good tip, I've been looking for a way to improve my hand-eye coordination.

Most people will know this one, but stand like 4-5 feet away from a brick wall and have someone throw a ball moderately fast from behind you, then use your top hand to catch it.

[lax096]

thats not that easy! lol

[laxman19]

i've trying it and i'm not that great either lol...i can get the rubber band to go back to half way then it's going rebounding to fast for me.

[laxpro]

Good tip, I've been looking for a way to improve my hand-eye coordination.

Most people will know this one, but stand like 4-5 feet away from a brick wall and have someone throw a ball moderately fast from behind you, then use your top hand to catch it.
i have some on do that for me even though i don't play goalie
im attack

[LaxGoalie28]

You can also buy reflex balls
http://www.bindependent.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=eeb109
You stand in your stance bounce the ball and then take your step to the ball, but they bounce in every direction.

[goalieskcickay]

^^^A camp I went to had those, they are so useful to have, really helped my stepping to bounce shots.

[Garor]

Juggling helps too.

That rubber band thing is a good idea.

For the wall ball drill where you face the wall, if you like to make it even harder, facer a corner and have someone throw the ball into that corner.

[Tridentslax]

Quite random but if your college plays cricket see if they have a feilding training machine (I'm a brit, maybe baseball has something similar) its like a big dish and someone throws the ball into it and it comes back out at you at a random angle

[slinkyspine]

Well I got one that we use for hockey. Take some raquet balls and toss it against the wall and catch it. Then start juggling off the wall. Or two at a time(with crossovers maybe)

And basically do a hundred or so of each before games and you have gotten your reflexes and hand eye warmed up so that you are quicker. Do it every day for permanent results. It works trust goalies

[OldGoalie]

You can also buy reflex balls
http://www.bindependent.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=eeb109
You stand in your stance bounce the ball and then take your step to the ball, but they bounce in every direction.

Hmmm...those look like they would not be so random in their bounce. Are you sure you don't mean these:

http://www.jumpusa.com/reaction_ball.html

http://littlefitness.com/images/reaction_ball.jpg

[slinkyspine]

Yeah Old goalies are the right reactrion balls those other ones look like massage balls

[jmoose33]

ping-pong. awesome for eye-hand coordination,especially goalies... :thumbsup:

[Trilax03]

Yeah Old goalies are the right reactrion balls those other ones look like massage balls
yeah i hav a reaction ball and it's so good...sometimes i hav like a contest with my trainer and it's fun to see who can pull off the craziest catches and stuff.