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Goalie trainer James Wendland and athletes balance on BOSU balls during off-ice training drills in a gym setting.

5 Damn Things with a Bosu with James Wendland

James Wendland has already had a big impact on the InGoal community — and goalies right up to the NHL — with his first three entries into the 5 Damn Things series (links below), so we didn’t want to wait long to bring you Part 4 on how to use a Bosu for position-focused training.

Like the last segment on a rocker board, PWHL Toronto’s Kristen Campbell is demonstrating again, but this time she’s joined by Matthew Hutchison of the WHL Vancouver Giants, as Wendland uses a Bosu ball to simulate some of the balance required from our knees:

Still ahead in this article:

Wendland's explanation for why both goalies are positioned so far forward on the Bosu — and exactly what part of the pad stack it's simulating — is in the next paragraph.

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