No Detail Too Small To Study

By | June 21, 2021 |
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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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #15

By | June 5, 2021 |
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #15

This program happens to be loaded with great advice about the hockey skating stride.  And, as I’ll so often say, it’s advice you probably won’t find anywhere else. Continuing something I started last month, you might take a look and listen to the YouTube video that caused such a stir:   Ice Hockey – Balance In…

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Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #14

By | May 5, 2021 |
Coach Chic’s Hockey Podcast #14

Oh, boy.  A link to the video that caused such an uproar so many years ago is to follow — from before I was able to dig up all the scientific information to really support my thesis.  Take a look and listen, though, and tell me how I’m wrong:    Ice Hockey – Balance In…

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Old Soviet (Russian) Hockey Reflections

By | April 29, 2021 |
Old Soviet (Russian) Hockey Reflections

Members will gradually get to know my long time Russian friend, Elena Segal, who has inspired a number of my articles.  We can also thank Elena for the current Russian hockey reflections, though.  She’s super-proud of her work in the use of ballet with other athletes, and she suggests to me that ballet was an…

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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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