Fire White Practice 03-27-18
The last practice before the Provincial Championship Tournament. Five teams play a round robin with 4 games in three days and then the top two play for Gold and 3-4 for Bronze. The top four teams finshed within a game of each other. St. Albert and Sherwood Park from the northern division and the two Calgary teams, White and Red from the south and Airdrie was in third place and gets a bye since we qualified in the playoffs and are hosting.
One of the parents took a video of the last practice with 2=3 minutes of each drill and team play review. Battery ran out so he didn't get the shootout. The players made huge skill improvements the last 7 months. The video clips are on my One Drive with the link below.
Great group of players and parents to work with this season.
https://1drv.ms/f/s!AukXg5gWoW-9hJ9mE6gGdoURA4OJNA
PROVINCIAL TOURNAMENT
It was pretty gruelling with 5 games in 4 days.
Game 1 - 5-3 win over Fire Red
Game 2 - 2-2 then OT loss 2-3 to Sherwood Park
Game 3 - 2-2 then OT win 3-2 vs. Airdrie
Game 4 - 6-1 win over St. Albert
Game 5 - 2-0 win over St. Albert in the final.
Provincial Champion 2017-18
Really nice compliment as we were just named 'Coaching Staff of the Year' in our 12 team league.
Hi Tom,
It has a while since I've posted here.
Here we are at the start of a new season. After a few seasons with U20 U16 and U18 I'm stated as a head coach with U13 team this week. Even it is our first week together and I should not rush my self, there is some work to do for me to adjust to the development level that they are at.
I’m going to coach this same team now for three seasons so it’s really interesting opportunity to follow the players development and my coaching.
I’ve really tried to dig in to the world of CLA (constraints led approach) in skills development and mixing it with a SAGs and transition games (well, with Tom’s game is the best teacher philosophy).
I’ll put some links to stuff I’ve been trying to study.
I’m looking forward to see you in Denmark Tom.
Kai
The Talent Equation podcast (link to youtube)
Athletic skills model (book)
Non-linear-pedagogy in skill acquisition (book)
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Kai, that is great to get a team for 3 years. I had my son's team for 4 seasons in a row and it really gave a chance to develop skills and game understanding.
Thanks for the book recommendations. I look forward to seeing you next month in Copenhagen.
I just read 'The Culture Code' by Daniel Coyle for the second time. It is great.
Tom
Kai