No Detail Too Small To Study

No Detail Too Small To Study

That featured photo up there may have confused some of my long time readers but, I think you’ll soon understand its meaning… Ya, I begin this entry with one of my favorite sayings, this one borrowed from the late, great Soviet hockey coach, Anatoli Tarasov.  As I recall,  “The Father of Russian Hockey” was referring…

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Moving From A Vacuum To The Hockey Game

Moving From A Vacuum To The Hockey Game

While this one originated with a question from a long time high school hockey coach, my answer probably isn’t going to exactly get too much into what he expects.  Oh, it’ll be good stuff for him, but I’m going to go a little bit beyond what he’s asking in order to really help his player…

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A Brief History of Studying Genes

A Brief History of Studying Genes

As sort of a background to our study on genes, I thought members would be helped to discover how new that study is. As quoted in Wikipedia: “In the fields of molecular biology and genetics, a genome is all genetic material of an organism. It consists of DNA. The genome includes both the genes and…

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So You Think Your Genes Determine Your Fate In Sports? — Part 1

So You Think Your Genes Determine Your Fate In Sports? — Part 1

Before reading this posts, members might like to get some further scientific background on genetics in “A Brief History of Studying Genes“. In what will likely be a three-part discussion on the human building blocks known as “genes”, I’m going to ask my long time friend and trusted advisor on such matters, Shaun Goodsell, MA,…

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Teaching the Beginner Hockey Player

Teaching the Beginner Hockey Player

Okay, I have to start with a huge smile here,  because I’ve just finished browsing through some old notes reflecting back on what I’d call — for the lack of a better name — a “tryout” I ran a few years back for a new 5- and 6-year old team coming from my winter Learn-to-skate/Learn-to-play…

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Teaching the Beginner Hockey Player to Shoot

Teaching the Beginner Hockey Player to Shoot

Number one, just because this piece centers around young hockey players doesn’t mean those dealing with older players aren’t going to gain from it. With that, I recently received a great question via social media.  And, since it seemed something worthy of most parents and coaches of very young kids, I asked the writer if…

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