How to improve your shot: sequence before strength

Ask a room of players how to shoot harder and most of them will answer with a body part: wrists, forearms, core. Film them and the problem is almost never strength. It is order.

A shot is a sequence. The ground is pushed, the hips rotate, the torso follows, the hands arrive last and the stick releases what everything before it stored. Reverse any two of those and the ceiling drops immediately, because the later links are smaller and weaker than the earlier ones.

The quickest way to find your own order is to film from the front at sixty frames a second and step through the release. If your hands move before your hips, you have found the thing worth fixing this month.