© 2021 Jukka Aro

Förlag: BoD – Books on Demand, Stockholm, Sverige

Produktion: BoD – Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt, Tyskland

ISBN: 978-91-8027-618-4

Content

• Introduction
  • Take advantage of the entire ice and activate players
  • Using and customizing hockey drills
  • Training equipment on ice
  • Drawing explanation
• Hockey drills for skating forwards and backwards
• Mixed drills with skating, passes and shots
• Stickhandling drills
• Passing drills
• Shooting drills
• Game drills
• Development of drills and technical elements
• Continue to read
  • Hockey At Home – Hockey drills to do at home
  • Hockey Leadership
  • Match-Like Hockey Drills

Introduction

Hi, I'm Jukka Aro, the creator of the book, the creator is perhaps a better description than the author, because the book may have more practice descriptions and drawings than text.

I live in Sweden and have lived here most of my life, but my roots are in Finland.

In addition to playing hockey, I started my coaching career at the age of 15, now 30 years later I can say that I have coached from hockey school (5-6 years old) to men teams, regional teams, Select teams, worked as a skill coach, coached a school hockey profile (7-9 grade and high school).

I have the highest coaching level in the Swedish Hockey Association (Hockey Association coach) and I have also studied at a higher level at the Coach Academy, which is no longer tied to a single sport.

The book in your hand is the seventh, but the fifth translation into English (the other books are still in Swedish).

I’ve noticed as I work with translations of books that it’s harder than you might initially imagine.

By this I mean that sometimes hockey terminology may not be “perfect” or that some expressions, terms and words may differ from what you are used to, however I hope the description of the exercises and their content is as important to you as it has been to me.

Hockey drills are available in large quantities, but usually for the slightly older players or when you have reached a certain level of competence, but how do the younger hockey players get off to a good start in their "hockey careers"?

In this category of "Hockey exercises for the younger players" or hockey exercises for children, there are not as many suggestions for simple basic, yet developing hockey exercises.

To put an exact age at which the hockey exercises in the book are suitable for, more precisely than, for the younger ones or for children, is not possible because it is related to the level of competence.

What you can say is that of course the hockey exercises in the book are suitable for the youngest, that is, 5-6 years and up, provided that you can move forward on the skates, but many 10–13-year old would benefit of training and would need to train on these skills, in order to develop properly as hockey players.

All hockey exercises are drawn in station format, to get as many active as possible and get as many repetitions as possible on the skills that are trained.