Your shooting motion should be similar to your passing motion. The big difference is that you need to have your feet angled sideways towards the goal. When you are shooting, you must always step forward towards the goal. If you shoot and step away, your shot won't be good. Your hips must be opened up when you shoot because you don't get much power when you just stand and shoot.
Your hands, arms, and stick must always come through when you shoot. Your stick should be the last one to come through. So your feet should be sideways, then you should be stepping, and then opening up the hips.When you are getting ready to take your shot, your stick must be back and away from your body. When you have your hands high you can generate more power.
The last thing you should do is have a push pull motion, pushing with your top hand, and pulling with your bottom hand. If you pass with one hand, it will strengthen your top hand. When your shooting aim low and off hip of the goalie. Bounce shots are a good shot to take, and you often have a better percentage of making the bounce shot because it's harder for the goalie to figure out where it's going.
I use to play lacrosse before it became "lax" and played with no skill or technique. All I wanted to do was to hit kids and well that is pretty much it. I had no idea you had to do certain stuff for shooting, I just swung the stick like a bat whenever i had the ball.
ReplyDeleteI to used to play lacrosse. But I was terrible and in my second year they made me play with the younger kids because I was a disappointment to the team. But hey! I got to hit people with sticks and throw stuff so yah! Also that's a pretty accurate representation of how to shoot. I would know, I played lacrosse.
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