Reply To: Summer Camp?

[Tom Molloy]

I am at the World Championships in Heidelber Germany. Germany just beat the USA 2-1 in OT in front of the largest crowd in hockey history, 76 000 in a soccer field that is covered.

I am attending a coaching conference and there was a great session on how we learn and the research says the less coach input and the more plaeyr decison making on how to do things the better. Also large groups in small areas causes the brain to make qucik decisons which can become hard wired as movement patterns.

So essentially the coaches job is to organize on ice sessions in small areas and cause the players to engage in the decison making process so that they own the decisons they make and it becomes what they do. The
more game like the better and the more challenging the better.

So throw out the lining up to do mindless drills where no decision making is needed and shrink the space and make everything game like and competitive so that the players are 1. engaged and 2. enjoy it.

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