Drills

Everyone is interested in drills first, but if this is your first time visiting, I would advise you to consider reading some of the other pages. The position is much more than having done drills, so I would recommend you check out some of the other sections, like personal development, if you want to make major gains in the position.

Drill Master List

Now that that preamble is out of the way, I have drills organized into what they target below:

Throwing

• Long toss
• Goalie route running
• Dodge-shot outlets

Outside (velocity) shooting

• Extra long range shooter
• Spot shooting
• Two shooter pass-shot

Stepping to the shot

• Ball toss
• Off-center shots (goalie stands off-center to make the goal feel wider)
• Walk the line

Hand quickness

• Strength training
• 3 foot wall-ball
• Weighted shaft
• Delayed save

Reaction Speed

• Ball release reactions
• Wall shot reaction

Stepping in the goal/position

• Rope triangle walking the arc
• Pipe to pipe
• Climb pipe shoot-pass
• Skip passes from X

Shot-specific drills

• Walk the line
• Bouncer: smother & clear
• Off-hip: no-step (on knees) karate chop saves