As it turned out, my presentation encompassed six videos, with those segments containing both old and new information (when it comes to what my CoachChic.com members now). With this, my aim in this first segment is to just introduce the idea of “teaching hockey in a closet”… For those who won’t have access to the…
One of the little known sports available for cross-training hockey players is that of “floorball”. It may be confused with a long standing recreational game known as “street hockey” or “ball hockey”, but it’s floorball has been taken far more seriously in many European countries. In fact, many current day NHL players with European roots…
Okay, let’s get that last part out of the way — about systematically (and safely) bringing a youngster from one level to the next… You see, I often liken this to the math sciences, asking a hockey parent or coach if he’d recommend a first grader skip right from basic addition and subtraction — never…
I have my long ago friends at the Sports Connection to thank for this extremely informative article. (I say long ago, because it seems they’ve disappeared since I borrowed this awesome article from them.) I love that they’ve provided a brief history for floorball, and that they go even more into the rules than other articles I’ve…