Stickhandling Training Aids - What's Out There

There are some really nice stickhandling training tools out on the market.  Sweet Hands, Extreme Dangler, My Enemy Pro, XDeviator, and many more.  I like toys and gadgets, so I wish I could get them all.  Unfortunately, I'm not made out of money, and some of these are really pricey.




Luckily for me (and you), these are all the same thing in concept, and we can easily make our own for a fraction of the price.  It might not be as pretty or as versatile, but just like the commercial ones, just owning it isn't going to make you better.  You have to do the stick drills using them.

There are also things like Attack Triangles and other goodies that we'll worry about in another post.

Now, to be sure, none of these are essential.  You can do the exact same stickhandling practice with mini-cones or even extra pucks spaced out.  The primary advantage these have is that it forces you to lift your stick over the device as you move from side to side, as if you were stickhandling around someone's stick who's trying to defend.

In the near future we'll look at several different ways to build these at home.  In the meantime, you can look at the above examples for inspiration.