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Mar 08, 2016 | Ken Stark | 733 views
Message from Eric Calder
The Year In Review "Future Wolves Program" - Eric Calder

Hi!

I want to thank all the participants and coaches for their efforts during the individual skills and individual tactics training sessions this year. It was once again a pleasurable opportunity to lead the players and coaches through all the drills and cooperative small ice games. My goal this year was to spend a lot of time on power skating with the puck (both forwards and backwards skating with a lot of transitions between both skating skills), passing and to reenforce strong fundamental tendencies. Backwards skating is often under trained in team practices and is so important to players being able to read and react defensively and offensively. Strong tendencies are very important for players to grow strong fundamentals and to establish correct technique and bio-mechanics with skating, stickhandling, passing and shooting. Here are a few key ones: two hands about 8 inches apart with stick on the ice (with and without the puck), always recovering ones skate back under the midpoint on each skating stride, hands forward towards the shooting and / or passing target to provide leverage in the mechanics of the release. The more and more repetitions in a controlled environment with lots of coaches monitoring the players tendencies goes along ways to help instill correct habits (thank you again coaches). 

In finishing, good luck to everyone through the last few weeks of the season and beyond. I hope to see you all again at the rink. As most of you know hockey is my passion and my career. I have been running hockey training programs and camps since 1998 under my company name "Skills Plus Hockey Inc." I have lots of options available in the upcoming weeks throughout March Break, Spring and Summer. Below I have included my newsletter that goes out to members. All registration is online and enrolment is quick and easily with all the payment options. Please note you can save 10% on any program and camp if you order two products in the same transaction (2 items in the shopping cart). So for example if you want to come to March Break Camp and a Summer camp you can save 10% on the total cost. 

Be well...a beintot!! Eric 

https://www.skillsplushockey.com/

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