I have to bump this again.
I went down to the shooting range tonight to see how it worked. OH MY GOD.
Despite my horrible videos, I've got a decent shot. When I'm not trying too hard, I'm good at leaning into my stick and snapping my wrists. It's the accuracy that throws me off, and then I spend an hour shooting until I'm sore and angry.
First time using the Drury tonight, aside from the two wrist shots I took on Friday...and BY FAR the best accuracy I've ever had. It was comical.
I bought some more pucks tonight and was aiming high left and hit about 17 of 20 in that corner. Before, I'd probably be maybe 10 in the net but most just wide or high. This time, it was seriously over and over right into the corner.
I had a nice string of four shots that went bar down within a couple inches of each other. Nuts.
But the previous time I tried to use a Drury, I couldn't shoot low...this time not a problem at all. I literally had to keep my stick damn near on the ground on the follow through, but the shots were right where I aimed, left, right, or five hole. Typically on low corners I could get maybe only 8 of 20 shots where I'm aiming (most of the time it would go wide or up in the corner), this time it was probably closer to 15. The other thing that worked really well was not leaning so much into them, just trying to quickly snap that puck low rather than bearing into it.
And especially fun, the velocity was better than normal too. I only took snappers because it's a wood blade and torqued off target for slappers, and frankly I don't want to take pure wrists shots anymore.
What I found was that, no matter the shot, I have to roll the blade over the puck before shooting. Don't try to wind up, don't try to do anything fancy, just cup the blade over the puck a bit with the puck right in the back corner, lean in and snap the wrists in one motion, and the puck goes where I want.
I think the reason it's working so well is that the blade is so flat that it's forgiving of where you release the puck. With a mid curve, if the puck is 1/4" off when you snap your wrists at the release point, it could change course quite a bit. And because it's got that kink at the heel, it puts a ton of spin and zip on the puck compared to the Modano, which just kind of lobs it.
So yeah, I'm pretty excited about the Drury.