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I'm a 45 years old beginner goalie. And on my first skate I was actually scared of hurting myself going into the butterfly. I have one advice I can already give to beginners: do Maria's 14 days butterfly challenge!!! It made my entry into goal tending a lot smoother! Thank you Maria!

Yes, please more beginner videos. I know I was scouring around looking for beginner videos of basic goalie moves and positions when my son decided he wanted to be a goalie last year.

Awesome! Thx Maria. Probably the oldest goalie in Tennessee at 64 but working hard to improve. Appreciate your videos. Go a bad 5 hole issue trying to fix

These videos are always really helpful! The stretches on/off ice are really good, I feel so much better and less achey after training. And now, I'm starting in a tournament! I love the 14 day butterfly challenge, it's been really good at getting my butterfly wider.

Great video, I plan to get a lot of use out of it. It's been seven months since I returned to the net after being away for 30+ years. The butterfly has been a challenge but I'm learning. Here's just two of your other videos that helped me out. Recovering from a groin injury. I jumped into a clinic last night for the first time in a month since I injured myself. Not 100% fit for sure, injuries at my age will take longer, but it felt really good and I and thank you for your recovery series for that. Second video was the Tydan skate profile. The six months I have been out there, I've tried to figure out what to improve. Discovered I'm a toe pusher when it comes to the butterfly. I took the Tydan profile survey and I got to try out my new SAM 10/50/27 blades at the clinic last night. Wow, what a difference! Pushing in the butterfly is so much easier. Standing in the crease feels more natural. Shuffling across the crease is easier, I'm not fighting it. Lastly, my backward skates are easier and faster. I surprised myself on one drill when I collided with the crossbar, I had no idea I could pop backwards so much quicker with this profile. Great stuff, looking forward to more videos.

Thank you Maria! Really appreciate this video. I'm coming back in after 18 years off and loving it! I was a good goalie, old school, but learning to naturally, instinctively butterfly has been such a challenge. I'll definitely be coming back to this video repeatedly to get this in my system. I'm doing your off-ice warm-ups which you demonstrated with your young goalie friend. They have been so helpful.

I don't think I could add anything. I could add making a drill to slide from center top of the crease to the posts and back, getting use to target the post. This is really good!

I love the way you break down and simplify the butterfly. Thanks for this as always. My tip that you touched on is opening a wider stance, especially with the newer pads that sit on top of the skates.

« I just always wanted to be a goalie and I don’t know where to start » That’s me :) I’m 35 and switching from player to goalie - thanks for your videos!

I had fourth skate now Maria, and your butterfly challenge and all your tips have allowed me to play without pain or worry in my hips and legs about sprains. I feel so much better and it’s all thanks to you 🤗 Now if I could actually stop some pucks down low..lol I need lots more practice

Thank you that was so helpful. You are awesome

Great video and explanations as always! Love the way you teach! I would mention also that having a good sharpened skates helps a lot. ^_^ For me, I like front part of the edge to be way much more sharpened than the late end of the edge. It helps me to better set the skate and have more confidence when pushing strong.

This video was just what I needed! I love the comments too! I was wondering if I was crazy making return to playing goalie. I've had a few hip replacements and I'm loving life back in the net!

Well done. 👍

Although advanced, it’s important you learn a couple things on top of this. When pushing, keep your lead leg out. Assume this is your butterfly:/\ A lot of the time, new goalies will look, turn push (as you had shown), and as they turn, (pushing left on their right leg) their butterfly will turn into this |\, keep it at /\ and push with the leg out. You also need to lead with the foot so when you push, the ice has the coverage of the leg. Because leading with the knee like |\ will cause an open net.

Bad stick drift when dropping into butterfly. Switched to a smaller stick that ha helped but mostly poor hip rotation. Going to try your stretches for the next few weeks to see if it helps. Thx!

Your oldest (62 year old) student says “Gracias, Maria!” * Grant in Mount Hope 😁

Hi Maria and Adam, This was fantastic. I was in touch with the 2 of you a few weeks back. I am 69 years old, live in Columbus, Ohio and recently had a knee injury from a running dog. Luckily I am about 98-99 % good and have played goalie 2 times this week. I do plan to start the goalie challenge this week. I really liked the 1st 2/3 of this video. i was hoping you could go over in more detail butterfly recovery, particularly describing where both feet and skates need to be and if you use both to get up. What cut do you use for you skates? Many thanks for all you 2 do!

Oh my goodness, I'm literally crying here. I started in goal at 50. I'm 56 now and was starting to feel like I'd never get better and should just give it up. You made my day and gave me hope. Thank you! I'm signed up for your butterfly challenge. I do have a question about how not to roll my pads?? I drop into butterfly (more times than I should because they just pop the puck over my shoulder) and at least half the time I land on the front of the pad instead of the side. Any vids on that? Thank you again!

i always wanted to know how they make it looks so easy

I'm in my first full year as a goalie (just turned 46) I'm not very good at my butterfly movements yet. I try to take advantage of the moments during the game when it's quiet to practice my movements ... it's hard to have ice time. We must take advantage of the time we have.

What are good guidelines for how tight/loose our pads should be? I'm a 30 yr old beginner and my right pad doesn't always rotate, maybe I have it too tight? Thanks yall

Love all your videos. I cannot get that leg up to make the push. What can I do to get that leg up to push.

Hello! I am young women’s lacrosse goalie and am hoping to master the butterfly technique(or something like this) so I can improve my low shots, I am wondering if this can apply to my sport or if anybody in this community has any recommendations on low shot saves. Thanks, I love the video!

As a new goalie on ice, pushing on/from one foot and slide is a lot harder than it looks. I can't even move 😂

Hi, Maria, very good video. Can you please do one on the difference in technique between the VH and RVH? For pucks behind the net, I like to VH (meaning if the puck is behind me to the right, my right pad is up against the post, with my stick flush to stop pucks from being centered, and my left pad is horizontal). I find it easier to then quickly push to my left, since my weight is already on my right leg. Most NHL goalies, however, play the RVH where the right pad is horizontal and flush on the ice - how do they then load up on that leg and push across? Thank you.

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Do you think the ski wax trick would work on a gym floor too or would I just stick even worse? I only play floor hockey now and friction is my worst enemy.

My 5 hole is by far my weakest point. Need to really work on it :(.

Hi! Thanks for this awesome video! I’m 32 y.o. beginner goalie who switched to it from playing D (usually) Two questions: where can I find the link to the butterfly 14-day programme? If my pads overrotate and I some times land on the “face side” of the pad, can the problem be in the toe tie which is like super tight?

As a separate topic, do you have or can you make a video on foot care and foot injury recovery? We just had to x-ray my son's foot today for potential stress fracture. We're hoping it's just a muscle/tissue soreness in the arch from his podiatry inserts.

i am normally a winger in hockey i have a game Saturday and I have to play goalie what are some tips so I don't mess up to much

I'm 36 just started playing. I need help with basically everything. My biggest thing is 5 hole and making a save and not moving with the play. I freeze

The one thing I need help I'd some times when I go to butterfly or rvh or vh I land on face of pads I need help stop that

I love the videos but you said you’re not a goalie coach but the channel name is goalie training 😂

Thise pads trippy af. They skinny as h3ll

What if you are a stand up, like me

Well my issue is that you do not show how to extend you pads upfront as to cover most of the width of the nets like pros do. I realized lately that you do not have to extend ur legs to the sides but push ur legs (the bottom parts) to the front so the pads spread in the width. You do not show how to do this and I think it is a major move to stop shots

It's not HOW to Do,it's- look how i can sit in butterfly . How sit on knees and turn feets out?or yuo think it can everybody to do?

I got my daughter to use the boards to push off until she got use to it