{"id":5650,"date":"2020-05-04T14:22:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/2020\/05\/04\/diy-hockey-training-tools\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:31:21","slug":"diy-hockey-training-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/diy-hockey-training-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Hockey Training Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>\u201cLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. &#8211; Albert Einstein\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This quote is particularly relevant during COVID-19.\u00a0 Kids are being homeschooled and recreation activities like hockey are on hold.\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19 might be playing the trap but we can figure out ways to beat the trap and have our budding hockey players keep working on their skills.<\/p>\n<p>So how can we help our kids stay active with hockey?\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of 3 hockey training tools you can make at home.\u00a0I went the DIY\u00a0route as it was a good father\/son bonding activity and in most cases we were able to save money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SHOOTING PAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I used a 4&#215;8 sheet of 5\/8 melamine particle board and bought a can of pledge to spray the board. The puck moved back and forth quite smoothly when stickhandling and shooting one-timers.\u00a0I liked the 4&#215;8 size as my son Colten was able to move around the board doing different stickhandling patterns or shoot from different spots on the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to keep it out of the rain as much as possible, as water on the board will end the boards usefulness faster than an OT goal in game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4x8-shooting-pad.jpg\" width=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homedepot.ca\/product\/uniboard-5-8-inch-4x8-melamine-white\/1000117178\" target=\"_blank\">4&#215;8 sheet of melamine &#8211; $37.25<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pledge &#8211; $7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Total cost &#8211; $45<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>REBOUNDER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This short <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JfTrqyP-Ql0\" target=\"_blank\">8 minute video<\/a> is the simplest way to create one and has all the info.\u00a0If you find the rebounder moving you can put a weight on it or something heavier and it will hold in place.\u00a0I put this at the end of Colten\u2019s shooting pad so he was able to take one-timers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 flat bungee cord &#8211; $5<\/p>\n<p>2x4x8 or 2x3x8\u00a0&#8211; $3.55<\/p>\n<p>Screws &#8211; $1.00<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total cost &#8211;\u00a0 Approximately $10<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>FAST HANDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What do you do with your broken sticks or sticks that your kid has outgrown?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Create your own fast hands training aid.<\/p>\n<p>This one shows using sticks for supports but I put 2 pucks under each section which made it more stable. If you don\u2019t have sticks then you can use 2&#215;2\u2019s for the whole thing, 2 2x2x8&#8217;s will be enough.<\/p>\n<p><u><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"229\" src=\"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/fast-hands.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 0px; border-style: solid;\" width=\"305\" \/><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Total cost &#8211; $6 or less!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I spent a total of under $75 for all 3 training aids.\u00a0It was a great project for me and Colten to complete.\u00a0The bonus besides being able to spend quality time with your child is he is spending less time on electronics and instead is outside working on his skills.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a win\/win for this hockey dad!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLife is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. &#8211; Albert Einstein\u201d This quote is particularly relevant during COVID-19.\u00a0 Kids are being homeschooled and recreation activities like hockey are on hold.\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19 might be playing the trap but we can figure out ways to beat the trap and have our budding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"segment":[],"class_list":["post-5650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5650\/revisions\/5651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5650"},{"taxonomy":"segment","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplayhockey.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/segment?post=5650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}