This video game is also a hockey training instrument

I've been playing hockey for a little more than a year now. I'm not very good, but I get better. Between the games I used an in -development game and a training tool called called DangleWhat helps me practice outside the ice rink.

Hockey is an expensive sport. The equipment just costs a lot and you pay an ice rink every time you step on the ice. I go there to practice quite often. I play either in pickup or league games twice a week, train with a trainer and fall in public skating sessions whenever I can. There are ways to practice at home, and I do that how to shoot pucks into a network in my garage. Occasionally I click a golf ball around my living room floor.

Of course, there are devices that you can buy to optimize the off -ice embroidery handling exercise. These often require that the player looks down on the tools. For the complicated trainers who light up as an indicator of ascending, it is particularly important to look down directly at the device. But in hockey it is essential. You have to be able to see your teammates and opponents.

It requires two devices, but I use three – my phone to follow the puck, my husband's iPad to display the video game and then bring the video game on TV. On the floor I have set up the Faux Ice Panel, from which I usually fall in my garage. This is shown by my phone with a MacGyued stand to follow my stick and puck. The puck is essentially the controller, and her stick is her fingers that push his joystick around. With a view of the screen, I use my stick to push the puck around and avoid the screen character and collect coins.

It's very simple and I have only played it in simple mode so far. But I can see the value both as a training instrument and just for fun. My husband and I are already trying to prove who has the best embroidery handling and reaction skills. And I work on a significant mechanic while I build strength in my wrists. (Embroidery handling is really exhausting on the arm and holds the top of the stick. There are many quick wrist movements.)

Nickolay lamb, DangleThe Creator told me that the idea as a peloton for hockey began; He and two others actually built a small miniature hockey track. But that was too far, a little too inaccessible. They started using software and a way to use the tracking technology on which lamb had worked to create embroidery handling video game. Lamm said it took about five or six months to make a demo.

“The risk in all this little adventure was, What if you are too delayed in this game for the speed of a hockey puck?“He said.” That was my risk because nobody had ever played a video game based on a sports object, especially something that moves as quickly as a hockeyuck. “

It works pretty well with a minimal delay – at least if you have a good internet connection. Lamm said with a good internet connection that there is about five frames of the delay, “which is actually pretty similar, what you get from a normal joystick.”

Lamb intends Dangle Have fun at first, secondly train. “People like [hockey influencer] Pavel Barber, for example, they are extremely qualified hockey players, “said Lamm. It's all entertainment.” Lamm's right; Instead of shooting it.

“In the same way, this product is all entertainment and training is just a side effect,” said Lamm. “You know, children play hockey all day. And the last thing they want to do is more training at home.”