Reply To: Game Intelligence / Decision Training

[Tom Molloy]

Filip, it is always good to read the comments of another coach and great to have another active member on this discussion board.
It sounds like you are doing a lot of really good things already when I read what you did your last practice.

It is important to avoid line-ups except for recovery from high tempo activities. Your space is limited so you have to create areas for practice stations and you have done that. There are more ways to divide the ice into three areas such as from the goal line to the far blue line with one team on each half and the third group doing having one zone at the end.

If you search Dukla on this site you can see many of the activities I did in Jihlava two summers ago. We divided the rink into 4 areas and did skill drills and SAG’s in these areas.

Play keepaway and SAG with skill rules or rules that reduce time with the puck. Also play multi-puck games or games with different kinds of balls and pucks to challenge the nervous system. i.e. a football and a puck at the same time with the rule that you can only use your feet with the football (soccer ball) and stick or feet with the puck (or a hockey ball etc.)

Try to keep everyone active as much as possible. When I had 60 students in a small gym at the same time I would make 12 teams of 5 who practiced the skill together and then we played tournaments with 6 games going on at the same time in small areas with a modified rule that used the skill we just worked on; i.e. if it was volleyball and we just worked on the forearm pass then the game only allowed forearm passes and there was a rope instead of nets the entire length of the gym and 6 small cross gym courts. https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/downloads/ is a link that shows a few classes.

Good luck with your practices.

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