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.
While physical prowess and skill development are crucial components, understanding one’s learning style can be a game-changer in achieving peak athletic excellence…
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I pulled parts of this piece out of my archives. It’s a few years old now, but it’s still loaded with great advice for my current hockey friends…
In my honest opinion — and after decades of observation, I firmly believe that young hockey players should learn checking…
Please know I do this as a courtesy to members and potential members, trying to give them a sense of what’s “coming” within the next month…
Of course, chances are good that you also have to do tons of problem solving, if you’re a hockey player, hockey parent or hockey coach…
Despite my inclination to frequently think outside the proverbial box, I’d like members to know that I don’t make hockey related decisions without a lot of serious thought. In fact, over my forty-plus years in coaching, I’ve mostly relied upon a set of standards I’ve come to call “The Nature of Our Game”…
I think it best that I show you a very short video before we get into a discussion on the benefits of rope skipping, this to act as sort of a frame of reference…
Every so often I like to dig back into my video vault for something that offers some solid teaching principles. And for today, I have a doosy from way, way back