IN-LINE SKATING

The Greatest Changes CAN Take Place FROM HERE ONWARD!

By CoachC | April 12, 2024

Although a lot of folks view hockey time as something like September to March (or April), I have to share a different — very important — slant on that…

More On YOUR Hockey Stick’s Shaft

By CoachC | March 22, 2024

A LOT of time running and re-running a video so many times, something really jumped out at me in one of the clips…

How About a 3 on 3 Tournament

By CoachC | March 5, 2024

Perhaps like anywhere else, a lot of rinks in Massachusetts looked for creative ways to use ice-time during their off-season months…

How to REALLY Tie Hockey Skates

By CoachC | February 24, 2024

A member recently mentioned his bout with “lace bite”, which caused me to put the following together — for him and for all my other CoachChic.com friends…

Build Your Own Off-ice Hockey Training Center

By CoachC | February 21, 2024

Many good drills require some sort of training aid (I’ve mentioned previously that a lot of pretty good training tools can even be homemade)…

Drill: Tic-Tac-Toe Down Low

By CoachC | February 7, 2024

This drill needs at least 7 players for flow at one end of the ice, from the hash marks to the boards…

Dustin Pedroia’s Hand-eye Coordination

By CoachC | February 2, 2024

A future MLB star played lots of tennis and ping pong as a boy, and I thought…  That’s something that deserves some discussion here…

What’s Wrong with this Picture?

By CoachC | January 31, 2024

Thankfully, a number of members have weighed-in, or offered their opinions or guesses, and I applaud the bulk of them for coming fairly close to what I’ll be suggesting down below…

The Garage Sale Drill

By CoachC | January 25, 2024

The sender of this drill seems to have a knack for fun oriented drills.  Ya, her approach to the game always seems to make me smile, and I can just imagine that her players look forward to what she might have planned next…

Jerry Z’s New Stick

By | December 5, 2023

After several hockey friends recently hit me with questions having to do with hockey sticks, it struck me that I might dig back into the CoachChic.com archives for a long ago post where I really got into a former student’s issues with his stick.