THE Most Important Hockey Season Is Coming Up?

By | May 9, 2021 |
THE Most Important Hockey Season Is Coming Up?

I’m hoping my hockey friends noticed the “THE” in my title, because I truly meant to type it that way.  Yes, I feel that in the overall picture of being a hockey coach or hockey dad — or even if I was an adult rec player, the coming days, weeks and months are as important…

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Making Long Jump Ropes

By | April 6, 2021 |
Making Long Jump Ropes

While I studied long ago in the old USSR, I found it interesting that their coaches used a lot of activities for training that we’d have defined as schoolyard or playground games her in the states.  Perhaps what I found most interesting was the fact that we North Americans had abandoned many of those physical…

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Suspension Training for Hockey Players

By | October 14, 2020 |
Suspension Training for Hockey Players

I’m always saying that part of my job is to do the research for my hockey members (and I also like to do it selfishly, for myself).  Anyway, I’ve always subscribed to a number of strength training magazines and newsletters, just so I can keep-up with the very latest in training methods.  So, along came a new…

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Whole Body Vibration

By | October 8, 2020 |
Whole Body Vibration

I’m actually inserting this piece as a way of eventually introducing my rather simple “WakeBoard” invention a few days from now.  With that… Anyone who knows me knows that I’m a workaholic.  Truth be known, though, I love what I do — researching and writing, researching and creating new hockey training methods.  Still, I firmly…

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