The Speed of Learning

The Speed of Learning

Shaun Goodsell, MA Founder and CEO of Mental Edge Athletes invest enormous amounts of time in practice.  Go to a football field, a hockey rink, a baseball diamond and you will most likely see coaches and athletes preparing for an upcoming contest. Many report that practice seems insignificant and boring leading some to quit and…

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Another Chicken or Egg Story

Another Chicken or Egg Story

By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my…

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This Snippet Shows Some Awesome Off-ice Skating Drills

This Snippet Shows Some Awesome Off-ice Skating Drills

Dave Schmitz offers some “band training” ideas especially aimed at working the core, but also including some really taxing movements for the skating movement. (I’d use these at home to pass by others on your team or in your league.) So, do check this one out… To watch the entire video, please click HERE! *…

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Get The Eyes up!

Get The Eyes up!

This isn’t going to be a long post, but it is one that’s very much overdue, mainly because of the video I’m going to share right now… Ya, if a picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, well… Just how much is a video like this worth? Now, if you follow me at all on…

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This Snippet Offers Secrets for Skating Speed

This Snippet Offers Secrets for Skating Speed

Coach Chic’s first inside knowledge about “over-speed training” came about during a session at the Moscow Institute for Sport and Physical Culture in the former Soviet Union — a good 15-years before such methods became more known in North America. To watch the entire video, please click HERE! * PS: The app running this program…

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