Social Media Ice Hockey Sensation Blows Peoples Minds With Incredible Trick Shots And Crazy Skills
A rising hockey star who was forced to give up playing professionally by an injury is back in the game he loves after becoming social media's top ice hockey sensation, who wows his followers with his amazing tricks.
Zac Bell is such a success that he attracts millions of views, and he has even set up a company now incorporated to market and cash in on the popularity of his tricks.
In this shot, for example, he amazes fans by hitting the left post, the crossbar and the right post in quick succession before he twirls his stick in the air, catches it and smashes the puck against the second crossbar.
Zac is a national athlete and holder of two Guinness World Records who has racked up over 317,000 followers on Instagram and 111,000 on YouTube with his incredible ice hockey skills.
He told Newsflash in an exclusive interview: "My Guinness world records are most consecutive puck flips in 30 seconds and most consecutive puck flips in one minute."
He opened up about his journey to becoming the so-called 'Hockey Jedi', telling Newsflash: "I played hockey my whole life. Unfortunately, I only got one season of junior hockey before being forced to retire due to head injuries. I was in the dark room for a long time battling PCS (post-concussion syndrome), unfortunately.
"Not long after that, my mom was diagnosed with cancer. That’s when I decided to put all my energy and focus into my platform and really become Zac Bell, the Hockey Jedi. This is how I stay involved with the game I love so much. This is how I play now."
Zac is just 20, hails from the province of Ontario in Central Canada, and supports the Detroit Red Wings. His social media videos often rack up hundreds of thousands of views, with one particular video of him launching one puck after another into the crossbar with the "world's lightest stick" accumulating an astonishing 1.4 million views on YouTube.
Of his rise to fame and acclaim, he told Newsflash: "I never expected everything would happen so fast. I always knew deep down this was my calling. It seemed to be that everything in my life would lead right back to AlwaysHockey."
AlwaysHockey is Zac's company, which he created in 2014 and incorporated last year. Of his future plans, he told Newsflash: "We have plans to start up our training facility and summer hockey team within the next two years."