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Hockey Training Drill using a Bosu Ball
Hockey training drill focusing on balance, core strength, dribbling under pressure, and body awareness all while balancing on a Bosu Ball. |
Speed Skills - Skate Faster with These Pro Hockey Tips
As a long-time hockey skills coach, I get asked by parents all the time about how their son or daughter can increase their skating speed. I do a lot of... |
How to Take a Snapshot in Hockey
Scoring goals is something every hockey player strives for each time they are on the ice. Shooting the hockey puck can be accomplished... |
5 Ways to Improve Your Shot Accuracy
If you ask hockey players why they play hockey, they usually come back with the reply, “because it’s fun!” The part of hockey that ranks #1 in the fun factor category is... |
Ice Hockey Tips and Hockey Skills: Making a Perfect Saucer Pass
The saucer pass is a passing technique used in ice hockey where one player elevates the puck off the ice, through the air, to another player. The goal is to .... |
Words Every Hockey Player Can Live by
There will be many magical moments in your hockey career, as well as challenging ones. Here are some great quotes you can use to inspire yourself to greatness. .....
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Top 10 Tips for Hockey Tryouts
What can you do to dominate at Hockey Tryouts? These Top 10 tips are musts for doing well at your hockey tryouts. Be ready for your hockey tryouts!! .....
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Ice Hockey Tips and Hockey Skills: How to Shoot a Wrist Shot
Many times hockey players will ask our professional training staff how to shoot a puck. In this ice hockey tips blog we are going to concentrate on one of the most common and critical to learn: the wrist shot or wrister ..... |
5 Youth Hockey Skills To Learn From Patrick Kane's Scoring Streak
Chicago Blackhawk Patrick Kane is in the midst of a very impressive scoring streak that, as of this writing, has reached 23 games. In an era when goals and assists are difficult to come by, how is it that players like Kane find their way onto the score sheet every night? Here are 5 keys that hockey players can take ..... |
What Is vs. What Should Be on Your Holiday List
Every year around the holidays players are settling into their team and things are starting to gel. I always have enjoyed asking players on my teams what they would like for gifts over holiday break. Sometimes those lists align with their hockey skills, sometimes they don’t. Regardless, it’s always entertaining. I hear lots of the usual: video games, iPhones, iPads, gift cards, etc. I even have heard some of the strange: underwear, pogo stick, and the best, when a player actually wanted a Chia Pet.
Tips to Take Your Thanksgiving Tourney
How To Make A Great 1st Impression This Hockey Season
So you spent the past several months training and doing exactly what you should have to get off to a great start this season. Congratulations, you are now in the top group of hockey players who are spending the time in the garage, basement, backyard or wherever it is that you stick handle and shoot pucks. So what now? How do you show all of that talent and make a great first impression to your coach and teammates?