Reply To: Diary of a Season 2016-17

[Tom Molloy]

Fire White Practice Twenty-five and Twenty-six

Fire White Practice Twenty-five

No games this weekend so we had a Sunday evening practice. Four of my players got called up to play the AAA game and three of my players are elite field hockey players and they also had a game. I made it optional for them to also come to practice. All but two field hockey players were at practice.

I planned a high activity session with no new material since we could have been missing many players. It ended up 14 skaters. We started with 15 minutes in stations, goalies, defense, forwards then played lots of games that reviewed angling and D getting the shots through from the point; the assistant coaches participated. Jeff from the Global Academy was there to find out about our team before they run some skills sessions which are mandated by our organization.

We have Spin Class Monday night, Tuesday off and practices on W-Th-Fri, away game Saturday vs. the first place team and play them again in Calgary on Sunday. We are in second place with two less games played.

Spin class was good. Nice facility with a separate room for spin. All there but one player who is sick and another player who has been out for six weeks with a concussion from heading an over inflated soccer ball. Players worked hard for about 50 minutes. Many of them have never done spin before and were nervous about how hard it would be. The plan is to alternate between Core training and Spin on Mondays all season. They will end up with ten or eleven each.

Practice Twenty-six

We have the Global group coming to run an hour of the practice. The theme for this individual skill practice is the slap shot and one timers. The first 30 minutes with edges and balance skating, Randy led work on edges, Mel worked with the goalies for 15 minutes we did overspeed and then reviewed the Chocktaw and Mohawk in the zig-zag drill. The last 60 minutes Global did a good job of circuit training with multiple nets. We did pass and pass receiving with a strong bottom hand and then a 6 shooting stations.

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• Fire White Practice 10-23-16.pdf (1 MB)
• Fire White Practice 10-26-16.pdf (805 KB)

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