Coaching in the 21st Century

A major paradigm shift has taken hold of hockey in North America. The paradigm that has governed the coaching of hockey in the past was very straight forward: a coach was a person that existed to provide instruction. We are now shifting to a new paradigm: a coach is now a person that exists to produce learning. This shift is both needed and wanted and it changes the way we approach coaching in the 21st century.

• Each coach should be well versed in the development requirements pertaining to coaching development, team play development, and individual player development.
• Each coach should be able to, as realistically as possible, periodize the technical, tactical, physical, and mental skills required at each development level.
• Each coach should be well versed in the design and execution of high tempo flow practices.
• Each coach should be able to design and utilize drills that contain high flow with accurate game specificity.

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Elite Hockey Coaches Resource Training Manuals
To accommodate coaches, our Hockey Coaches Resource Training Manuals have been designed using an educational weighted factor that allows for a more structured distribution of technical versus tactical information. This weighted factor structure is applied to the content of our manuals to help coaches progress tactically by competitive category.
Each manual also contains over 150 drills that produce high tempo and high flow within practices and included are advanced teaching methods that help increase repetitions and provide accurate game specificity.

We have also produced Off-Season Hockey Dryland Training Manuals for Peewee, Bantam, Midget and Junior players. These manuals contain the most current training techniques based on the latest research in the areas of strength training, aerobic and anaerobic (power) training and speed/acceleration training. These training programs cover an 18 week off-season training cycle and are divided into two core cycles: a  12-week general base cycle, and a 6-week power cycle that is very specific to hockey.