I have a nice young lady to thank for this entry. For, you see, my video on “Incredible Stickhandling” made it just about around the world — even to a lady hockey player over in the United Kingdom. Sometime near when she purchased and downloaded those videos, she messaged me to express some concerns. (I think she…
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It’s a funny thing, in that some subjects necessary to playing our game well seldom get talked about in hockey circles. That’s why I spend so much time seeing what coaches in other sports are doing, and that’s why I got psyched to find some pretty good help for our hockey players’ vision… Okay, I…
Long time hockey friends know I love fielding questions — because trying to solve them tends to make me really think, and to perhaps even become better at what I do. However, as I joked to the coach who sent me the most recent one, he didn’t have to start with such a toughie. Yup, developing…
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Over recent years, it seems tons of seminar speakers, the two North American hockey federations, and a host of do-gooder bloggers have believed that hockey players should put their gear away once their season has ended. As members will discover, I believe in that, too — at least partially, but I also believe the old adage, about learning…
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You’ll often catch me saying that my students and players have gained a lot from my studying star athletes. For example, when it comes to hockey stars, younger students benefited from my dissecting Denis Savard’s spinarama, and then teaching it in several very easy steps; while my studies of the great Ovechkin have surely helped…