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    101 Youth Hockey Drills
    101 Youth Hockey Drills
    101 Youth Hockey Drills
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    101 Youth Hockey Drills

    By Stuart Dempster and Dennis Hay

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    Designed specifically for young players, this manual contains a wide range of progressive practice drills to help players develop. Fun, educational and challenging, all the drills are illustrated and cover the essential technical skills, including warming up, stick and ball work, skills and tactics, team work and decision making under fatigue.
    As well as easy-to-follow instructions, each drill contains information on the equipment needed,
    the space required, how to construct a safe and effective training session and how to organise the players.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 30, 2013
    ISBN9781408196717
    101 Youth Hockey Drills
    Author

    Stuart Dempster

    Stuart Dempster is an experienced Hockey coach, working with a variety of National and club hockey teams. Dennis Hay is an Olympic Bronze medal winning coach.

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      101 Youth Hockey Drills - Stuart Dempster

      There are very few examples of youngsters being stars at high school and then going on to be senior stars. Most gifted individuals also excel at other sports and activities. The fact that they participate at these other sports only helps them to achieve at a high level at their chosen specialist activity.

      There is nothing better than to have your promising hockey players participate in and do well in other sports, as this will widen their skills base, provide a solid base of conditioning, enhance social skills and contacts and prevent injury. In particular they should be encouraged to do athletics, which is the basis of all sports, gymnastics, basketball, combat sports, dance and swimming.

      Trying to get youngsters into one sport early will only lower their potential ceiling of achievement and is likely to lead to early retirement. In addition playing hockey year-round will contribute to burnout, as does placing players in higher age groups – let the youngsters develop a solid foundation and acquire a hunger for the sport beyond high school. When you consider that many sports possess athletes who have ended their successful careers in their late 30s, 40s and even 50s, there is surely no rush.

      The coaching staff should endeavour to take a long-term approach, with the player’s well being at the centre of the process. This may mean altering current practice relating to the number of games played annually for example. It will involve a shift in approach to the actual way we coach and it will also involve the player’s parents as part of the process.

      The adult ego will need to be kept in check, we are here to develop young players after all.

      Approach to developing youngsters

      1 Structured fun sports, downsized to fit the youngster.

      2 Unstructured play with their peers.

      4 Appropriate levels and volume of competition.

      5 Participation in as wide a variety of sports and physical activities as possible.

      Hockey is a fast moving sport requiring large amounts of running. It has been estimated that a player can cover between 8–10 kilometres during a senior game. The running required is at a variety of speeds, the player is required to get down low to hit a ball, or to take it off the opponent in a lunge type activity. They need to twist, turn, change direction, jump and have good grip on the stick in contact situations.

      If you are a goalkeeper you need to be agile and explosive whilst wearing all the protective gear. In short, hockey is a multi-pattern sport which requires a great deal of athleticism.

      When considering a fitness programme for youngsters, there are many elements to take into account. I would strongly advise a preventative approach getting all the players assessed for possible injuries BEFORE they happen. This approach takes a bit more time at the beginning, but pays handsomely down the track.

      Let’s consider the following study based on the main results of an injury study carried out by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) between seasons 1998/9–2002/3.

      The study found the following to be the main injury sites for hockey players:

      1 Ankle sprains

      2 Concussion

      3 Head, neck and face (caused by contact with the stick or ball)

      4 Hand, finger and thumbs (caused by contact with the stick or ball)

      Basic functional strength and fitness is solely derived from what we call primal movement patterns and can help to prevent such injuries. All of the movements below can be developed by doing circuit training. Little or no equipment is involved in setting up circuit sessions and the creative and imaginative coach can make use of the local environment.

      the primal movement patterns

      1 Squatting

      Daily life Simple activities such as sitting in or getting out of a chair or car

      Sport Basic strength development often requires this training activity

      2 Twisting

      Daily life Picking something off a floor and placing it on a table behind

      Sport Winding up and hitting a ball in hockey, a tennis serve, javelin throwing

      3 Pushing

      Daily life Opening a door, pushing a shopping trolley

      Sport Contact situations, a palm off and scrum in rugby, bench press

      4 Pulling

      Daily life Lifting an object with a pulley system

      Sport Yachting, rowing, Tug-of-war

      5 Bending

      Daily life Parents picking up their kids/shopping basket, nurses, construction workers

      Sport In golf when addressing the ball

      6 Lunging (stooping down without bending the spine)

      Daily life Fall prevention, traversing rough

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