Hockey Practices for the Younger Players

By Jukka Aro

Hockey practices for the younger players is a book with ready-made hockey practices for players between 7-12 years. All
hockey practices and drills have been carried out practically on the ice in the format they are drawn in the book.

A total of 63 hockey training sessions, which are ready to be used immediately. This gives you peace of mind as a hockey coach, you know that you always have a ready to use hockey practice, which is tested and well thought, when you need one, e.g. for that early Tuesday training at 4 pm (16:00), you are arriving to straight from work.

Towards the end of the book, you will also find a number of theme practices, for skating, passes, shots, stick handling and 1 on 1, which you can insert from time to time or use during a focus period.

It is often good to repeat the same practices 2-3 times, before moving on to the next practice. As the players learn the hockey drills, you reduce the time to show the exercise itself and can instead focus on feedback on the performance during the hockey drill, to develop your players even more.

If you use the same practice 2-3 times before switching to the next one, you have 63 x 2 = 126 practices covered, or 63 x 3 = 189 practices covered, it gives you peace of mind and reduces "produce new hockey drills / put together hockey practices" stress for a good while!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Release date: Dec 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9789180276238

Jukka Aro

Kirjailija, jääkiekkovalmentaja ja toiminnankehittäjä, joka on kirjoittanut useita jääkiekkokirjoja valmennuksesta ja jääkiekkoharjoitteista.

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Adapting the hockey drills

Adapting the hockey drills

Within a group, there can often be a big difference in what level the players are at in the development ladder.

How do you do this so that everyone has a good opportunity to develop?

A possible solution is to try to level the groups, colors or fives, then you as a leader will also find it easier to meet your players where they are in their development right now.

How can this be linked more practically to the exercises out on the ice?

If you have about the same level of players coming to a station, you can with some of the groups start by running the exercise without a stick (if it is just skating for the youngest ones), bring the stick for a while and test once with the puck before changing stations, because precisely these players need to develop skating and balance.

The next group may be the one who is further ahead in the development in terms of skating and balance and instead needs to develop and take the next step in puck handling and may therefore start directly with the puck and instead try to do the exercise backwards a few times before changing stations.

The same exercise with different degrees of difficulty depending on the level of development of the players.

Sure, this can be sensitive in some parent groups, but if you are clear in communication and purpose, that everyone should be developed and developed from where they are right now.

It's like school, if you do not know the letters, you can not jump to the exercise where you have to read a sentence, you need to take some steps before that, but you will get there with