Hi, I'm Mark Millen, two-time member of Team USA, and today we're going to talk about some of the methodology and skills it's going to take to be a good split dodge. Split dodge is really, I think, the most important dodge for an offensive player. And the reason I feel that way is it's just so hard to cover. A split dodge is considered a north-south or a downhill dodge, and the reason people say that is you're square. Your shoulders are square, you're looking right at the goal, and you're attacking almost in a downhill fashion, so it's really hard for a defender to cover. The first thing is a split dodge is a, I think there's a two-part dodge, and the first part is really your hands, and making sure you have good, quiet, calm hands. Alright, you notice I don't flip the stick over my head like a lot of young players do. I don't bring the stick all the way across here, so nice and tight across your chest. I'm sliding the stick over, my bottom hand is coming up. The next part of the dodge is the footwork, and the little drill I like to do is to show the footwork here. I put a stick here with the head of the stick down towards my left foot, and then I have a defensive stick to show that you've got to start this dodge pretty early, pretty far away from your defender. I'm taking my left foot as I'm running to the head of the stick, and then my right foot is going to go to the butt end of the stick, so I'm going left, right, and then I'm going to split across, turn my feet over really quick, and attack out of the dodge. So as I'm running towards my defenseman, alright, my left foot for a right to left split is going to go to the head of the stick, left foot to the head of the stick, right end to the butt, and split across. You notice when I do this, I stay really square, my head is not swinging all over, so I come in, and it's left, right, split across, and then I want to turn my feet over and attack out of the dodge as quickly as I can. The way I recommend starting is first, you can see I'm about just two or three feet from my stick, go through the progression like that, okay? After you start to feel comfortable with the hands and the footwork, I want you to walk into the dodge. And once you feel comfortable walking into it, now you can start to just jog into it. Again, nice, tight hands, quick feet, and I think that progression will get you on your way to being a great split dodger. And I'm telling you, if you do the progressions that I'm teaching, and you work on your hands and you spend a lot of time working on this, you're going to make yourself a really dangerous player. I'm going to be taking us through how to win the draw, get it to space, and create a fast break coming off the draw. I think the biggest thing is really being able to explode off that line as soon as... We made a couple turnovers early that they capitalized on, so you have to give them credit early in the game, they scored two right away.