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Like countless other kids, I was involved in numerous sports growing up. You name it - hockey, baseball, track, tennis, golf, and swimming. I had initially begun my athletic career at the golf range and at the batting cages. I swung lefty in both sports, which was useful since they required similar movement mechanisms. So when it came to beginning my career as a hockey player, I naturally held the stick as I did with a bat and a golf club: lefty! I could easily use the motor skills I learned with golf and baseball to exhibit positive transfer in skill and speed I learned into an effective hockey shot.
Fast forward a few years later to my new home when I entered middle school. My family, or should I say, I was blessed with an unfinished basement. Why was this so great? At this point in my life, I knew hockey would be the sport I would enjoy the most and give the majority of my attention to, so it allowed me to assemble my own hockey shooting area. The concrete floors mimicked the ice I would normally shoot on and the tennis ball I shot with is similar to a hockey puck. Even though I was not practicing on the ice, practicing in my basement allowed me to utilize transfer-appropriate processing to improve overall as a shooter.