© 2020 Jukka Aro
Förlag: BoD – Books on Demand GmbH, Stockholm, Sverige
Tryck: BoD – Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, Tyskland
ISBN: 978-91-8007-121-5
The book has "many" pages, but the first 50 pages are
more text-rich and pages where I want to convey
knowledge and tips to you as a floorball player, things
that are good to know and to think about.
Invest the time to read through the first chapters (about
50 pages), read by yourself or together with a parent (if
you are a younger player). The text is "simple" and with
large text, you can do it!
I am confident that you will find great tips and
thoughtful things on those pages, which will also help
you develop, as a floorball player, and help you as you
begin to look at the drills later in the book.
I wish you nice reading
Practicing floorball at home or having your own drive (motivation) to practice at home in addition to team training is one of the best qualities a floorball player can have and a master key to success.
It is not always, or it will not always be fun to train yourself, but if you make it a routine and a good habit, then the results will come and it will be fun to play floorball, all training is useful and something which you will benefit from!
The better you are at something, the more fun it will be, your own training will help you along that path.
Make the exercise a daily good habit, which you do in the long term, you will not be the best, because you are practicing today and not because you are training tomorrow, but you will be good or even maybe the best, because you can keep training for a long period of time and train extra on your own!
… Right now, I'm being interrupted by an 11-year-old who asks, "Can I do some “physics”, or do I disturb you in your writing?"
"Of course you can train, you will not disturb and you don't have to ask for permission to do that"
In the book you will get a lot of tips on practices with stick and ball, but also physical and coordination training, which you can easily do yourself at home (indoors or outdoors).
The exercises with stick, ball and shots could require some kind of surface to be on, in order to protect the floor or if you are outdoors or in the garage or some similar space, to protect the stick and give you good surface to practice on. You will get some tips on the surfaces that you can use, for the skill drills later in the book.
Depending on the space, if you skip the shots, the drills can actually be carried out inside your room as well in a very limited space.
Before we go into the drills, we will briefly look at what is required, to succeed as a floorball player and some tips on practice equipment, surfaces to practice on and on other things you can think of, such as rest, diet and having good routines.
Invest your time in reading through these pages, I am convinced that the pages help you as a floorball player, but also in other areas, the word floorball, can be exchanged for school or other sports, the same principles apply there to succeed.
What does it take to succeed or become really good at floorball? A number of studies have shown that it takes tens of thousands of hours to become a master of what you do.
Each of us has the potential to be a "champion" in what we do, but it will take time, specifically 10,000 hours of good training or about ten years, which is also why I wrote in the introduction that you will not be best because you practice today, but if you do it day after day or at least very frequently, then you will be good in the long run, just practice a lot on your own and can keep up the training over time.
The same way of thinking can be used, for example, in skills training, for a movement (fake as an example) to be automated, you need to have about 10,000 repetitions, that is to repeat the movement 10,000 times for it to be smooth and automated ("you know when it goes by itself ”).
If you were to do a toe drag 100 times a day, you need to do it for 100 days, to get a really good at it and reach up to 10,000 times. If you do it 20 times a day, it will take 500 days or about a year and a half to get really good at it.
Since I gave you example of how long it takes to "automate" a "toe drag", we can also look at what 10,000 hours of training means.
In order to reach 10,000 hours you need to practice in a good way (properly), this is not only about training floorball (of course), but more about as I wrote before, all training is good training and hours that you get into your “training account”.
To get up to 10,000 hours in 10 years, you need to practice 20 hours a week. Then it might be better to talk about physically activated (school sports, team training, training on your own, games and activities with friends, street floorball, paddle, tennis, golf, hockey, soccer, running, cycling, etc.)
Training versatility makes it easier and maybe even more fun to collect the training hours in to the “10,000 hours - training account”?
Here it might also be important to show an opposite example, if you, on the other hand, only practice with your own team, 2-3 times a week + some school sports and thus land on 4-5 activity hours per week and the rest of the time, 5-6 hours a day is used for Fortnite or other console games and mobile, it will take you almost 40 years to reach up to 10,000 hours and become really good at floorball!
On the other hand, you will be really good at Fortnite within 5 years!
After 5 years you are up to 10,000 hours with 6 hours of Fortnite per day!