Hockey Training Pads Review
The Hockey Shot Training Pads are one of the most popular training aids on the market today. These training pads help your player practice shooting while greatly reducing wear and tear on your player’s hockey stick. That’s one big score. So are they worth it? Here’s our review of Hockey Shot Training Pads:
Purpose of training pads: Players can practice off-ice shooting or stickhandling skills while protecting their hockey stick blades from the concrete or paved surface. Shorter pads allow for a shooting and basic stickhandling, while longer pads add more stickhandling and passing opportunities with a partner.
Prices: $34.95 for four-foot long by two-foot wide Junior pad with 1/8-inch thickness; $59.95 for the four-foot long by two-foot wide Intermediate pad with 3/16 thickness that is recommended for heavy shooting load; and $79.95 for five-foot long Professional pad that is also a foot wider than Junior/Intermediate and the same thickness as the Intermediate. The Premium SkillPad at $109.95 is the thickest pad at 1/4 inch with four-foot length and three-foot width.
Top Features: The pads are made of a synthetic composite to replicate the feeling of the ice surface. The shooting pads can be used virtually anywhere (driveway, cement floor, you name it) and work with any pucks or balls. There are synthetic ice pucks that might work the best.
As parents know, hockey is an expensive sport. The cost of equipment can be overwhelming, especially when kids continue to outgrow their current gear. The key difference with the hockey training pad is your player will not outgrow this training aid. It can be used whether a player is 6 or 16. Some other bright spots:
- It prevents those nasty tape marks on your floors or driveway.
- Parents save money by preventing wear and tear on expensive sticks.
- Your player’s off-ice hockey shooting practice is more realistic and effective.
- The shooting pad is flexible – it can be set-up/stored anywhere.
What Hockey Shot says: On its website (www.hockeyshot.com), Hockey Shot says that the shooting pads will make your player better – guaranteed. Of course, no training aid can take the place of proper instruction. If your player receives the correct coaching on technique, then the shooting pad will help your player maximize instruction time. The shooting pad will also help lessen the amount of “ice-time” needed. This saves parents money that is usually spent on drop-in or open-ice time.
Final period: The Hockey Shot Training Pads are a valuable training tool. The training pads give young players a training aid that will help them practice while preventing wear and tear on sticks. It’s a training aid that will be useful for years – you don’t outgrow it.
Editor’s Note: For a limited-time, when you use the code “cares1″, parents will receive 15% off of any Hockey Shot-branded training pad.
Reviewed by Cares program editors.
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