Reply To: Stick handling session

[Tom Molloy]

Pops in a team practice you can have them leave from one end in 3 or 4 lines and finish with a shot as in the Jursinov video. With a whole team there I would have them go down one side with front toe drags around the dot, finish with a shot, toe drags into the 4 nets down the middle and shoot, then down the far side with back toe drags and just vary the tasks after everyone has gone thru a few times.

In my camps coming up later in the month we will do all these things and incorporate drills and games where they have to use the skills under pressure plus when we practice with multiple balls and pucks we will all move to one end and they will have to develop split vision to avoid collision (good rhyme). To tell the truth it is easier to work on the skills with larger groups than with only one player.

Come on the ice with me in Jasper July 18 and you can help out (no pay). My daughter and 2 grandchildren and I are staying in a Jasper campground but there is a dorm in the arena, where Gaston and his girlfriend Beata supervise. I am also giving a coaching seminar in Jasper and may be working with a midget team as well.

The Jasper camp is neat because there are about 24 players on the ice all at once ages 6-16 both girls and boys. Some stay at the dorm, some at campgrounds and hotels and the locals of course at home. They have 3 ice times a day and alternate between 2 skating and a hockey one day and visa versa the next each day ends with plyo's. Gaston also has a figure skating group there who also skate 3 times a day. They end up having 13 ice times The meals at the rink are incredible. On Wednesday morning everyone goes white water rafting. Best camp I have every been associated with. The older kid's help the younger ones and it is a great atmosphere and very casual. (Gaston was Swiss skating champion, has a doctorate in body mechanics and has coached Olympic teams in figure skating and speed skating (fitness). I have yet to see a better skating coach.

I went to the search function at the top right hand corner of the page and typed in breakout and got https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/downloads/ which is what I think you are looking for. First I typed in breakouts and it didn't find this link. Also Jursinov is can be spelled Yursinov.

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