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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 by doing… Let me say that this piece is written for those who care most about a single sport — like ice hockey. There’s nothing wrong with wanting to participate in three or four sports, and not care about excelling in any one of them. At the…
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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 older players with their shooting movements. That established, I need to refer to at least two things from the other side of the ledger… 1) A long time friend and former adult student of mine wrote me today to inspire this entry, with something he’d…
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