Focusing on the passion for ice hockey, this book serves as a guide for players of all ages and their parents. It offers practical exercises and tips to enhance skills and foster development outside of regular practice. By encouraging at-home training, it aims to support young athletes in honing their abilities and deepening their love for the game.
Focusing on match-like hockey training, this book offers a comprehensive collection of drills categorized for various aspects of the game. Each drill is designed to simulate real match scenarios, enhancing skills in warm-ups, skating, and passing. The emphasis on practical application ensures that players can effectively translate their practice into game performance, making it a valuable resource for coaches and players aiming to improve their hockey skills through targeted training.
Designed for coaches and parents, this guide offers a collection of ready-made hockey practices tailored for young players aged 7 to 12. It emphasizes skill development, teamwork, and fun, ensuring that practices are engaging and effective. The structured drills and exercises cater to various skill levels, making it a valuable resource for enhancing the players' abilities on the ice.
Focusing on the needs of younger hockey players, this book offers a collection of basic yet effective drills designed to help kids start their hockey careers on the right foot. Recognizing the scarcity of resources tailored for beginners, it provides innovative and engaging exercises that promote skill development and foster a love for the game. Ideal for coaches and parents, these drills aim to build a solid foundation in hockey for children.
The amount of information a floorball player is faced with, and processing during a game is amazing. You have your own teammates moving and communicating, the movements and actions of the opponents, meanwhile you need to position yourself, be aware of your body, switch between offense and defense, take quick decisions and respond to things happening around you, sometimes with the ball, sometimes without, while everything is happening in a very high speed. This can be compared with bandwidth on internet, slow connection and you feel a lot of disruptions in everything you do, or try to do. With a high speed connection the information processing and switching between tasks will be smooth and flawless. When you increase your floorball players "bandwidth" during the floorball practices, with challenging multitasking drills with reduced time you actually do the opposite for the feeling of the game, you slowdown the game for them thanks to higher "bandwidth". This is exactly the purpose of this book, to give you the understanding, tools and methods to increase the "bandwidth", with nonlinear or multidimensional floorball drills and coaching for all of your players. The key is to increase the challenge all the time for all of your players, otherwise the development curve will flat out, if you don't push it further. Let's push it further!
Train floorball at home is a book for floorball players in all ages, who are ready train extra by their own, in other words for floorball players with big floorball heart, but also for floorball parents, who wants to support their child to develop in floorball, by practicing extra at home. Are you motivated to practice extra and want to learn more, and know what and how to practice floorball at home? In that case, in this book you will get training tips, drills for shooting, skill drills, but also physical exercises and coordination training you can perform at home. Parts of the content: What is required to succeed in floorball? - Shooting drills - Shooting drills with obstacles - Skill tracks - Stickhandling and fakes on a small surface - Drills with a ball passer - Skill drills with jumps and steps - Odd shots, fakes and other training tips - Physical and coordination training at home.
Floorball is about interconnected skills and movement patterns where the various mental and physical skills are linked together and used simultaneously. That is why this way of thinking also needs to be included in the planning and in the design of floorball drills and off-season practices, together with situations that reduce the time for performing a skill. All the floorball drills are drawn, so you can use it on different parts or in different sizes of the training area (full rink or as a small station), with an explanation to each drill. This is a goldmine of Swedish and Finnish floorball drills and knowledge! More than 800 floorball drills.
How to turn a Super Mario hockey drill into a modern Fortnite hockey drill? Or what components are needed in modern developing hockey practices? These are some of the areas with practical examples that are handled in the book, which ends with a chapter with Fortnite hockey drills and hockey drills for individual skill development. Are you an 8 bit Super Mario coach or a modern Fortnite Hockey coach? This game theme is linked as a red thread to leadership, coaching and hockey drills throughout the book. Personally, I am not a big fan of game consoles, even if it can sometimes, surely be perceived that way in the book. For example, I would prefer that my own children were more physically active than they are right now! Probably I'm not alone about that idea?
How should a modern hockey drill and practice look like? How much does the console games affect your players and in what way, something negative or is it an opportunity? What can we hockey coaches learn from the world of console games? These are questions that are handled in the book and transferred as practical examples to hockey drills! Personally, I am not a big fan of console games, even if it can sometimes, surely be perceived that way in the book. For example, I would prefer that my own children were more physically active than they are right now! Probably I'm not alone about that idea? But I try to understand, see the possibilities, and handle the new challenges, as a parent and coach and share these lessons, connections, development and opportunities for you as a hockey coach and, or parent. How do you change a one dimensional hockey drill to a modern multidimensional hockey drill? Or what components are needed in a modern skill developing hockey drill? Learnings from console games are transferred in practice to your on ice drills and off-ice practices, with over 200 hockey drills in the end.