© 2021 Jukka Aro
Förlag: BoD – Books on Demand, Stockholm, Sverige
Produktion: BoD – Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, Tyskland
ISBN: 978-91-8027-623-8
The author
Hockey practices for younger players
Adapting the hockey drills
Training equipment on ice
Drawing explanations
Hockey practice 1 to hockey practice 54
Theme practices
Practice 55 - Skating Theme
Practice 56 - Skating Theme
Practice 57 - Skating Theme
Practice 58 – Passing Theme
Practice 59 – Skating Theme
Practice 60 – Shooting Theme
Practice 61 – 1 on 1 Theme
Practice 62 - Stick handling Theme
Practice 63 – Stop Theme
Swedish Hockey Drills for Kids
Development of skills and technical elements
Multidimensional Hockey Drills and Training
Hockey at Home – Hockey Drills to do at home
Hockey Leadership & Coaching
Match-like Hockey Drills
Hello,
I appreciate that you read here and thank you for buying the book!
Before we go into the hockey training and the hockey drills, which build up the hockey practice itself, you may be wondering who I am who put together the book.
My name is Jukka Aro and I have been a coaching in hockey at various levels for over 25 years from hockey school to men’s teams, coach in the regional team, various Select teams, coach for school hockey in 7th to 9th grade, high school and also as skills coach for different ages.
I am a trained national level hockey coach and have also studied at the Coach Academy. During the days I work with operational development, leadership and team development.
I have a wife and three children, all of whom play hockey and are of the age: Hockey school to Hockey High School.
The book you hold in your hand physically, via your mobile or tablet is number 6 in English.
The previous titles are:
All books are available as physical books or eBooks and can be purchased via Hockeycoach.se or in an online bookstore.
Hockey practices for younger players
Hockey training for the younger ones is a book with ready-made hockey training for the younger players up to about 12 years old, but is also suitable as an insert for the older ones or when you want to return to basics for a while. It is difficult to set a more exact age, when the level of competence and development plays such a big role.
All drills and exercises have been carried out practically on the ice in the format they are drawn in the book.
The content of the book can be used in several different ways, you can use hockey practices as it is, jump between practices, combine the first part of one practice with the end of another or pick a hockey drill here and there and put together your own practice.
Towards the end of the book, you will also find some theme practices that can be put in from time to time or used for a period, (skating, passing, 1 on 1, shooting and stick handling theme practices) before jumping back to the other practices again, which is more of a mix of different elements, but with a strong emphasis on skating with and without puck.
It is often good to repeat the same exercise 2-3 times before jumping to the next. Then the players have time to learn the exercises. You reduce the time, to show the exercise and can instead focus on feedback on the execution and action.
If you use the same practice 2-3 times before switching to the next, you have 63 x 2 = 126 ready and planned practices, or 63 x 3 = 189 planned hockey practices.
This gives you a little peace of mind as a trainer, even if you do not use the training from the book every time.
However, you know that you always have a ready to use hockey training, which is tested and well thought out when you need it, e.g. to that Wednesday training at 16:00 or Monday 17:00, which can be just as difficult to catch up on well prepared, straight from work!
There are descriptions for all drills, but no times for how long you should run an exercise, you can control and decide that as needed.
I have used the following guidelines when I train the younger ones.
Training duration 50-80 minutes.
10-15 minutes skating skills.
20-25 minutes station training.
5-10 minutes skating (relay, games, etc.)
10-15 minutes small area match in three zones.
"Individually skilled skaters and creative
players with team spirit"
Use the ice time with quality. Create
opportunities for development and creativity.
Good skaters have time to be creative and find
solutions during the matches. "Creative
mistakes" can be repaired with good skating…
Adapting the hockey drills
Within a group, there can often be a big difference in what level the players are at in the development ladder.
How do you do this so that everyone has a good opportunity to develop?
A possible solution is to try to level the groups, colors or “fives”, then you as a leader will also find it easier to meet your players where they are in their development right now.
How can this be linked more practically to the exercises out on the ice?