Shooting Goals in Lacrosse

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Hi! This is Tamir Elterman on behalf of Expertvillage.com. In this clip I am going to be talking about shooting. First what you need in an outside shooting is your positioning. You need to have your shoulders perpendicular to the goal and your feet parallel to the front of the goal. If you are shooting right handed, you are going to have your left foot closest to the goal. When you are shooting left handed you are going to have your right foot closest to the goal. Next thing you need is to have your hands positioned correctly and you have your bottom hand on the very bottom of the stick and your top hand lower than throwing or catching so as to really get that leverage to get a good powerful shot. The next thing you need to do is get your arms really far out away from your body extended and get your hands really far back to wind up kind of like a baseball swing. You want your top hand about six inches away from your shoulder. You can really wind up and go through with that shot. The most important part to getting power is the trunk rotation, that is kind of like also in a baseball swing where you are back here and you come through with your hips to get a good shot. You also going to want to shift your weight from your back foot to your front foot as you do in the trunk rotation. So it is going to look something like a baseball swing in where coming back your hands far back and you are transferring that weight. Now I am going to show you the full shooting motion incorporating some of the things that we talked about. When aiming to shoot, you are going to want to shoot at either one of the four corners or you are going to want to shoot in front of the goalie on the ground, so that it bounces past them. Those are usually harder for goalies to track. Also when people are winding up to shoot they tend to look at the goalie instead of the wide parts of the goal and if you look at the goalie you are more likely to just shoot into their stick. So you want to do a nice hard shot at the goal either bounce shot or a straight shot.

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