Now, if there’s one person who is bashed often at most rinks, it’s the so-called “puck hog”. Ya, parents can be especially tough on that guy (or little girl), which very frequently trickles down to teammates eventually mimicking their (sometimes pretty cruel) comments. I actually find it interesting that no other skill seems to attract such scrutiny. I mean, folks seem to admire you if you’re a good skater, they certainly appreciate it when you pass the puck (especially to their kid), and most fans even accept you if you shoot better than others. But, just handle the puck beyond…
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I’m sure I’ll continue to unveil new and far more elaborate puckhandling patterns here at CoachChic.com. Not that there’s anything new about different configurations, or that it’s unusual to rearrange the pylons to create different kinds of skating or puckhandling moves. Still, as I’ll suggest in most such entries, various layouts should really be aimed at enhancing specific kinds of skills. Now, if you go back to my earliest Mighty Mite post (“Our First Mighty Mite Hockey Practice“), you should see that I used a straight row of obstacles as a very simple of way of showing my babies how…
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Before Dave gets into his video, let me share some thoughts on the benefits of exercising on slanted surface…
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Years back I worked with an adult roller hockey player, especially so I could use work with him as an example for other in-line skaters. And at the end of every week, my friend, Jerry Z, usually sent me an email update on his roller hockey goings on. What I especially liked about these were that Jerry’s reports very frequently pointed towards a few things that were fairly prevalent in my line of work: 1) that I was obviously dealing with an intelligent guy; 2) that he often showed me some remarkable insight; and, 3) that he was quite often…