SKATING

The Garage Sale Drill

By CoachC | January 25, 2024

The sender of this drill seems to have a knack for fun oriented drills.Ā  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 Zā€™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.

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 85

By | November 15, 2023

Each episode includes awesome advice from hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors, with past episodes are available on CCC-TV Youtube…

Speed Skating Versus Hockey Skating

By | November 7, 2023

I pulled parts of this piece out of my archives. It’s a few years old now, but it’s still loaded with great advice for my current hockey friends…

The Nature of Our Game (revisited)

By | October 26, 2023

Despite my inclination to frequently think outside the proverbial box, Iā€™d like members to know that I donā€™t make hockey related decisions without a lot of serious thought. In fact, over my forty-plus years in coaching, Iā€™ve mostly relied upon a set of standards Iā€™ve come to call “The Nature of Our Game”…

Rope Skipping Benefits for Hockey Players

By | October 24, 2023

I think it best that I show you a very short video before we get into a discussion on the benefits of rope skipping, this to act as sort of a frame of referenceā€¦

CCC-TV Hockey Show – Episode 84

By | October 15, 2023

Each episode includes awesome advice from hockey’s top coaches and specialty advisors, with past episodes are available on CCC-TV Youtube…

ā€œSpecializedā€ Hockey Training

By | October 11, 2023

ā€œYou Donā€™t Need Iceā€ mainly includes things I want to share with hockey players, coaches and parents from my old Soviet hockey studies and my coaching degree studies…

Borrowing From Our Hockey Strengths

By | October 2, 2023

As youā€™ll soon see, thereā€™s a good reason why Iā€™m holding the following from public view.Ā  Ya, this is definitely for my members only!

Addressing the Hockey Skating Posture

By | August 31, 2023

I want to introduce something I doubt many members have ever seen before. Ā  Yes, it’s a training device that was long ago developed by a Canadian speed skating coach.