Video Tutorials

Learn DrillFlow
in minutes, not hours.

Short, focused videos that get you from zero to drawing polished animated drills as fast as possible. No fluff.

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DrillFlow in 5 Minutes — Complete Beginner Guide
Place players, draw paths, hit play. Everything you need to build and share your first drill. No prior experience needed.
⌨️ Shortcuts
5 Shortcuts Every Coach Should Know
Hold Shift for a dead-straight line, hold C to ride a faceoff circle, D/W/P/T to switch tools, Ctrl+Z to undo and F to flip the drill to the other side. Shown drawing the classic Circle Passing drill.
Try them in the builder
📅 Team Calendar
One Calendar for Every Team
Merge TeamSnap, GameChanger, Spordle and your own calendar into one Google Calendar with drive times and the weather. Put the week on the kitchen TV, play practice plans, see game-day lineups and send team-only links to families.
Set up your calendar
🏒 Teams
Run Your Team From One Page
Your schedule, who's coming, staff and volunteer jobs (a safety-certified coach covers the safety spot), one family link, lineups that rotate the starting line, season stats and a printable end-of-season report.
Open Teams
📊 For Scorekeepers
Keeping Stats at the Game
The parent keeping stats? Check who's dressed, then tap goals and assists, shots, penalties and periods from one link. Undo any tap, try it first with a practice game, and it works with no signal at the rink.
Get your team's scorekeeper link
📱 For Parents
Your Team's DrillFlow Link
Your coach sent you a link? Open it on any phone: no app, no account. Tap Going, Can't or Maybe, help out, watch tonight's drills, see the lineup, log shots and watch games live. Then add it to your home screen.
Email template to send your parents
📧 Email template for your parents copy, fill in the [brackets], send

Tells your families about the team link and the shooting challenge, and points them to the video above. Fill in the [brackets]. Signed in? Your team calendar link fills in below on its own (pick the team if you have more than one); otherwise it's in Display setup → Share this display → tick your team → Create link → Copy. The 📋 Attendance and 🎯 Log shots buttons appear once you add them under Display setup → Team link buttons. Haven't turned Attendance on? Delete that paragraph.

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Short version (team chat or text)
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Getting Started
Placing Your First Players on the Ice
Learn how to select pinnie colours, place player tokens on the canvas, and position them for any drill setup.
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Drawing Your First Skating Path
Freehand vs. straight-line mode, how to chain paths together, and how to use the snap system to connect one path to the next.
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Adding Passes and Shots to Your Drill
Use the pass and shot tools to show puck movement between players. Learn how the puck automatically transfers at the right moment.
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Drawing Tools
Forward vs. Backwards Skating — When to Use Each
Defenders back-pedal. Forwards pivot. Learn how to use all six path types to show exactly what each player should do.
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Drawing Tools
Editing Paths — Drag Nodes, Reshape Curves
Select a path, drag anchor points to reshape it. Tip: hold Shift to create sharp corners. Move entire paths by dragging the body.
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Drawing Tools
Multi-Select — Move Groups of Players at Once
Shift+click, Ctrl+click, or lasso-drag to select multiple players. Move your entire forward line without redrawing anything.
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Animation
How Puck Handoffs Work in Multi-Pass Drills
Deep dive into the animation engine — how the puck knows when to transfer, and how to draw complex multi-player sequences that play back correctly.
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Animation
Speed Control — Making Your Drill Feel Realistic
Use per-segment speed tiers (1–10) to show a player accelerate out of a stop, glide through a zone, or sprint to a rebound position.
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Tips & Tricks
5 Keyboard Shortcuts Every Coach Should Know
Undo/Redo, copy-paste players, S/F for speed, Ctrl+click paths for batch edit, and presentation mode. Work 3× faster once these are muscle memory.
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Tips & Tricks
Building a 3-Man Weave from Scratch
Full walk-through of one of hockey's most common drills — building the weave, chaining the passes, and making the animation look exactly right.

Build your first drill in 90 seconds

No account needed. Open the builder and follow these steps:

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Select a pinnie colour
Click any coloured circle in the left toolbar — Red, Blue, Yellow, Green, or White.
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Click the rink to place players
Each click drops a numbered player token. Drag to reposition at any time.
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Pick Draw mode and drag
Select a player, click Draw Skate (or Pass), then drag from their position to draw the route.
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Press Play and Share
Hit ▶ Play to animate. Click Share to copy a URL your staff can open in any browser.

Work faster

Ctrl ZUndo last action
Ctrl C / VCopy / Paste selected elements
S / FSlower / Faster on selected path
DQuick switch to Draw Skate mode
PQuick switch to Draw Pass mode
EscExit presentation mode