General Skills Advice
Where Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 2
Now, from this old coach’s perspective, new drill ideas frequently come about because there’s a problem. Said yet another way, a new drill can be created to solve a difficulty one of our players — or most of our team — is experiencing…
Read MoreWhere Do Hockey Drills Come From? Part 1
It’s been several years now, since one of my Team NEHI assistants described something he’d seen on a newscast. I guess the sports segment showed some clips of our local NHL hockey team, and then it highlighted the team’s new coach…
Read MoreHow About a 3 on 3 Tournament
Perhaps like anywhere else, a lot of rinks in Massachusetts looked for creative ways to use ice-time during their off-season months…
Read MoreCoach Chic’s Hockey Podcast 48
Please allow Michael to re-introduce the changes to our monthly Hockey Secrets Podcast, plus another new one. I know you’ll like it…
Read MoreBuild Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center
Many good drills require some sort of training aid (I’ve mentioned previously that a lot of pretty good training tools can even be homemade)…
Read MoreProfiling the Hockey Skate Blade
I’ll introduce David W. Carlson a little later, and invite visitors here to leave questions down below for David. But for now, let him take it away…
Read MoreDustin Pedroia’s Hand-eye Coordination
A future MLB star played lots of tennis and ping pong as a boy, and I thought… That’s something that deserves some discussion here…
Read MoreCan We Learn Anything From the NBA’s Greatest Small Forward?
If I had my way, site members would watch the following video all the way through before thinking about another thing. That done, however, we could move on to consider the real question at hand…
Read MoreAthletes Just Keep Getting Stronger and Stronger
Two long ago news events caused me to bring a few thoughts to my members’ minds — those having to do with MLB and the NHL…
Read MoreJerry Z’s New Stick
After several hockey friends recently hit me with questions having to do with hockey sticks, it struck me that I might dig back into the CoachChic.com archives for a long ago post where I really got into a former student’s issues with his stick.
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