Reply To: Summer Camp?

[Tom Molloy]

Koutsi97, I plan to do similar things at the camps I do in July. One in Jasper National Park and the other in the Czech Republic.

In Jasper it is a mix of ages between 7-16 with both girls and boys all on the ice at the same time. We do some things together and some in groups. I bring 4 small nets with me and lots of different balls and pucks.

Right after that camp I fly to Prague and then go to Jihlava which is about an hour south. Ken Moyseyev has arranged for me to replace him to run the camp. He has conflicts with various other things and can't go. http://www.hcdukla.cz/zobraz.asp?t=letni_hokejova_skola

This is more like a regular hockey school and the players are organized into age groups and I will have about 4 coaches on the ice with me. So more stations, like you mention, are possible but everything will go into games and contests after technique practice.

Ken is from Russia and played in the Red Army system. He moved to LA as a young adult and does a lot of coaching there. He brought me to LA a few years ago to help him with a midget camp. We think along the same lines so when he needed someone to replace him I got the call.

It was a neat few weeks because right after Ken's camp I flew from LA to Guadalajara, Mexico and my son and I ran a camp for 25 young Mexicans. They had whatever equipment they could scrounge up. Bike and army helmets, shin pads with no socks, sticks curved the wrong way and a formula 1 Zambonie driver who did the ice in about 4 minutes. Carlos brought us down and later his two boy's came to Canada to many hockey schools in Calgary and the Okanagan. Both made the Mexican national youth teams.

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