GENERAL SKILLS ADVICE

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 74

By | December 15, 2022

Each CCC-TV episode includes awesome advice from some of hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors.  Non-members should know that the latest episode might only be available to the public for awhile. Currently many past episodes are available to the public on our CCC-TV Youtube Channel. Sometime soon, however, all past episodes may be archived (for members-only to view at their leisure).As usual, there are several (or is it all?) segments in this month’s episode that our members won’t want to miss.Awesome advice from some of hockey’s top advisors: – Dr. Mike Bracko– Oldrich Jindra– Dennis Chighisola/Coach Chic– Kimberly Smith Lukhard–…

YOUR Stick

By | December 10, 2022

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Hockey Stick Measurement Help

By | December 9, 2022

She began with the following: Hi Coach Chic, Sorry to bother you but I’ve been searching your site and have not had any luck on finding the info for sizing a hockey stick. By now, I hope she knows she wasn’t bothering me at all.  Again, I invite anyone in our game to bother me in that way.  She also gives me the opportunity to point-out the Search box that’s available on the home page and then on just about every other page or post on this site.  For sure, searches can be tricky.  But I suspect she should find…

Modern Hockey’s Frantic Pace

By | December 6, 2022

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Instilling Heart and Desire in a Hockey Player

By | November 30, 2022

Now, believing in myself as I do, I wrote back to say that I see it as relatively easy to accomplish — with a couple of IFs.   Ya, a couple of dawgoned IFs… Okay, so I’m boasting a bit as I write back to the former pro, telling him I know exactly how I’ve always liked to start infusing a little heart or desire into the young players in my charge. And, reverting back to a few drills I’ve mentioned previously in these pages, I suggested that I’d do it with some combative-type games… I always began with 1 on…

A Great Slot Coverage Drill

By | November 30, 2022

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Get The Eyes up!

By | November 26, 2022

This isn’t going to be a long post, but it is one that’s very much overdue, mainly because of the video I’m going to share right now… Ya, if a picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, well… Just how much is a video like this worth? Now, if you follow me at all on social media, you’ll know I’m regularly on a tear about the gadgets and drills I see used there, especially in Instagram, where lots of unfounded drills and awful training tools are more the norm than, well… Then, as for the brevity of this post, that’s…

This Snippet Offers Secrets for Skating Speed

By | November 19, 2022

Coach Chic’s first inside knowledge about “over-speed training” came about during a session at the Moscow Institute for Sport and Physical Culture in the former Soviet Union — a good 15-years before such methods became more known in North America. To watch the entire video, please click HERE! * PS: The app running this program is truly awesome, but we’re still working out some of the kinks. So, if you should find any glitches in the way it works, please EMAIL COACHCHIC

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 73

By | November 15, 2022

Each CCC-TV episode includes awesome advice from some of hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors.  Non-members should know that the latest episode might only be available to the public for awhile. Currently many past episodes are available to the public on our CCC-TV Youtube Channel. Sometime soon, however, all past episodes may be archived (for members-only to view at their leisure). As usual, there are several (or is it all?) segments in this month’s episode that our members won’t want to miss. Awesome advice from some of hockey’s top advisors: – Dr. Mike Bracko– Oldrich Jindra– Dennis Chighisola/Coach Chic– Kimberly…

Looking, Feeling and Moving Like An Athlete

By | November 8, 2022

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