If there’s a difference between my old coaching schedule and those of most members, it’s that my high school guys started way back in June only to leave me at the American Thanksgiving, while my youngest teams were just getting underway in the early fall…
A worthwhile off-season usually takes some forethought and planning. And this has me suggesting that youth coaches or really into it parents might consider organizing an off-season team — or a couple of teams to form a league.
From an introduction to Coach Chic’s long ago studies at the Moscow Institute for Sport & Physical Culture, this snippet moves into the most important principles in motor learning for hockey players — don’t miss it…
Shaun Goodsell, MA Founder and CEO of Mental Edge Athletes invest enormous amounts of time in practice. Go to a football field, a hockey rink, a baseball diamond and you will most likely see coaches and athletes preparing for an upcoming contest. Many report that practice seems insignificant and boring leading some to quit and many to disengage, believing that the cost is simply not worth the perceived benefit. The question is, what are the vital principles of meaningful and effective practice that enhance the development of the athlete? It just so happens that researchers have uncovered some targeted principles…
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Aaaaah, the memories… When I was a very young coach, I was just starving for any kind of information that would advance me in that profession. And so I enlisted in just about any clinic or course that helped me in that way. (Actually, would you believe I climbed US hockey’s coaching ladder twice? Yup, I achieved Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Coach certification under the original AHA organization — even taking the Advanced level program twice; and then I climbed the entire current-day USA Hockey ladder, from Level 1 to Level 5 Master Coach. Among my fondest memories, however, was…
Fans watch through a different lens than scouts, who watch through a different lens than management personnel. While many fans are focused on the best players or their favorite team, scouts are primarily focused on draft-eligible players… More…
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I made these recordings not long before my move to Florida. After many years of coaching high school, Juniors and college, I found it fun to be paid to coach both a Mite and a Bantam team. Anyway, the reason the enclosed audios aren’t so great is because I was recording while driving to a rink, and because one of those trips was in the rain… Hockey Talk While Driving Honestly, I believe the information I shared on those trips is as good as it gets. I also hope that it proves good food for thought, so that listeners might…
By now, most serious hockey fans have seen the following video, and many have replayed it until almost memorizing the moves — if it’s even possible to memorize them. Anyway, whether you’ve seen this clip before or not, I’d like the visitor to watch it a time or two, before allowing me to say my piece… Okay, that thing about the “chicken or egg”… Well, what really bothers me nowadays is something the previous generations of hockey players never faced. And by that, I’m talking about the video fads we now see on the likes of at least Instagram and…