Vision

Making Coaches Self-Reliant

It is important to have a quality and relevant coaching education and training program if the hockey experience and ultimate performance of players is to improve. This program should provide opportunities on unique and practical ways to implement the very latest in sport science and a valid and reliable evaluative process to ensure that players and coaches have met the established performance criteria.

Coaches must decide what it is they want to learn and why. In education, it is the belief that self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge. Knowledge which is selected by coaches as important to their individual needs, knowledge which coaches can connect with what they already know, and knowledge that will assist coaches to meet stated competencies. As they gain knowledge, they will also become self-teachers, and only self-teaching has any lasting value.

If coaches are provided with clearly defined goals, and are pointed in the right direction, they wil be capable of reaching the level of training which is appropriate. To effectively deal with the technical, tactical, physical, and psychological development of athletes who compete in sport, the amount of knowledge that coaches are required to have is significant.
Existing coaching skills must be refined and perfected to higher standards due to increased responsibility and accountability. It is therefore very important to provide training and educational opportunities to help coaches acquire competencies which are specific to their coaching level.


Developing an Intuitive Hockey Vision

An intuitive hockey vision is the ability to read and understand the schematic flow of a hockey game. It's knowing where to be, where to go, when to get there, and what to do when you get there. To develop this "intuitive hockey vision", our programs and services teaches coaches how create game specificity in practices by practicing technical and tactical skills under more unpredictable and chaotic circumstances within creative flow.