Training Devices & Techniques for Speed, Agility, Quickness, Puck
Control, Stickhandling, Variable Goals Training, Skating, & Conditioning
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USA Hockey Video "Off-Ice
Stickhandling" (part 1)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DycV8UE5Ua0
Stickhandling
& Training Devices
Perfectskater.com
Skating Harness & Resistance Training Techniques
If you are looking for something FRESH,
something NEW, something VERY EFFECTIVE in helping your players
improve then you need to try this new type of training method.
This method has been tested for the last 8 years as a new and innovative way
to challenge young hockey players to stimulate their read and react skills
and puckhandling creativity under authentic game-like conditions. This type of
training is used to focus on the development of individual skills and so it is
very different from habitual team training practices.
Ludek Bukac Sr and Ludek Bukac Jr from the Czech Republic present...
For the past 7 or 8 years now we have been perfecting a new and innovative
way to challenge young hockey players to stimulate their read and react skills
and puckhandling creativity under authentic game-like conditions. We call
this training method Variable Goals Training (VGT) This type of training
is used to focus on the development of individual skills an so it is very
different from habitual team training practices.
In Variable Goals Training - we place multiple hockey goals in different
positions within small areas of the ice in a way that challenges players to work
on technique while giving them the options and the freedom to make creative
decisions. The goals act like imaginary opponents that the player has to
beat.
In traditional drills the coach tells the player exactly what to do, where to
skate, and when to make a pass. In our VGT training we always try to give
the players skating, deking, or passing options to make them develop their own
decision-making and judgment. Finally, the best reason to try VGT training
is because players love the opportunity to compete, to be creative and to
improve their individual skills. Players watch each other's technique and
they quickly adopt what works and incorporate it into their own game. The
drills provide an environment where players will stretch beyond their comfort
level. The drills are short in duration and high intensity which is very
game-like.
