Reply To: LTADM & Calculating PHV

[Tom Molloy]

Dave your post may have been the 3 000 000 th hit on the site. Happened at about 21:53 MST.

I don't know that much about the PHV. I know of doctors checking the size of the growth plate and predicting how tall a player will be.

It is really hard to tell how big someone will end up to be. When D. Heatley was 14 he was small and not chosen in the Bantam draft. They looked at his dad who is about 5'8" and decided he would be undersized. His mom is tall with brothers in Germany about 6:5". Mason Raymond and Ryan Duncan were the smallest players on the 85ers team that is on about 5 videos in this site. Mason returned to community hockey first year bantam because they told him he would warm the bench most of the time in AAA. Ryan played on all of the elite teams. They both ended up playing jr. A and then on to NCAA. Mason grew to 6" and ended up with Vancouver and Ryan is 5'6" and even though he won the Hobey Baker he hasn't got a good shot yet. I know he is coming back from Europe to give it a try this year.

I am sure a lot of coaches know more about the PHV than I do. I know that you can't do a lot of plyo's when the growth plates are soft. I have had players that had to be in a cast and avoid any pounding during dramatic growth spurts.

I am interested to see the comments.
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Dave,

I am pretty excited about the thumb drive. It took me a long time to put it together and gather the material from 2 computers and a portable hard drive. I spent two days coding the videos so they are easy to find. I have one attached to each of my keychains and now any windows computer gives me access to the material even without the internet. I have spent a few thousand hours putting this material together, going to conferences, taking video all over the hockey world and I think it is the most complete source of info a coach could ever get.

I started this site because when I taught PE in the school system I would end up having to coach things I never participated in except for maybe a few activity classes or a seminar. ie. girl's gymnastics, wrestling, volleyball, basketball, badminton, track and field, cross country, etc. I would look for good resources because I wanted to do a good job. Info was all over the place and it is hard to understand books when you haven't played the sport. So I think videos are the key. I grew up playing football in the fall, hockey in the winter and baseball in the summer and of course dabbling in many things like tennis. I was luck enough to be able to play the highest level of baseball in Calgary at that time, college hockey and then play for a living (not great leagues but they paid me) in hockey and even played quarterback at my college spring football camp. So I have some knowledge of those three sports from lots of playing. Other sports I learn from study but it was hard to get good info that was easily accessible and that is what I have tried to do here. I wish I had the computer knowledge to put everything together like the programmer did on the pdf of Book 1 that is on the disk. It has music and you just click to go from section to section or print something.

Sorry for regressing and babbling here.

Anyway this ABC site has valuable material for coaches of all levels, both sexes, youth and pro and I hope it helps coaches with practice and understanding team play ideas.

'The Game is the Greatest Coach'
'Enjoy the Game'