Honesty: Be open and honest about the fact that you are promoting your own channel, brand, product, etc.Promotional posts are allowed to a reasonable extent, provided certain conditions are met: Unfortunately, these problems still exist. The exception to this is pro hockey content for the purpose of training or skill development of our members.ĭiscrimination based on race, sex, orientation, gender, etc. Rather, this means that content should focus on hockey played by our members rather than NHL/professional hockey. By this, we don't mean that hockey videos are banned. Please keep things geared towards playing (rather than watching) hockey. Share ways to improve your skills, hockey highlights, discuss the game, coaching resources and more. Thanks everyone who encouraged me to go to the 5-day iTrain Hockey camp.A place to learn about the great game of hockey. I wanted to followup and write about my experience, if anyone else in the future is thinking about going. There was a youth group from 9 am - 11 am, Elite Group 1 from 11 am - 1 pm, and Elite Group 2 from 1 pm - 3 pm. The youth group was limited to ages 7-10 and geared more towards the basics of hockey. Both the Elite groups did the same material and were ages 8 to adult. There was a variety of material ranging from fancy dekes (e.g. pulling the puck between the legs) to basic (but important!) tips about shooting. Sean Walker, the iTrain Hockey coach, was the only coach for about 30 players. He did get a few parents / coaches to volunteer and help move piles of pucks around and setup nets. Despite the large group, he did a really good job of keeping the sessions up tempo and there wasn't much standing around. He clearly had a plan for managing large groups of players. He would often have us do some drills and then if he saw a mistake, he would stop everyone and point out the mistake and show how to correct it. But he would always let people try first. Players were separated into groups by age, so don't worry, you won't be playing 1-on-1's or doing drills in the same line / group with 8 year olds. I was actually around the same size as a 12 year old boy, so it worked out pretty well for me. In this particular camp, the elite groups were mostly 8-12 year old boys, but Sean told me afterward that it varies from location to location. He said that in California, his camps were mostly adults. The rough breakdown of the 5 days was: Day 1 - Power skating + stickhandling, Day 2 - Skating agility with the puck + wrist and snap shots, Day 3 - Deking + using dekes in 1 on 1s, Day 4 - Offensive and defensive tactics in 1 on 1s + cross ice games, Day 5 - Deking into shots + 1 on 1s.ĭay 1 could be kind of boring for people because it wasn't clear how the skating would apply in a game. Sean would demonstrate a skating drill for 10 seconds and then expect everyone to do it right away. The pace was a bit too fast for me, especially if I wasn't familiar with a drill. Day 2 was a lot of the same skating drills but with the puck. Sean gave some really great tips about shooting on Day 2. Deking was really fun, especially when we got to deke into shots on Day 5. Sean was just as impressive in person as he is in the videos, when it comes to playing hockey. He is an amazing skater and he would demonstrate everything at full game speed. That was inspiring, though at times, it might have been a good idea to slow down (especially for skating stuff) so we could see what was happening. Sean did break things down more when it came to shooting. Sean was also a great storyteller and would talk about NHL players he admired and why. Or he would talk about his own experiences as a youth hockey player. He talked a bit about the psychology of being a great athlete. His stories were always very entertaining. It was a pretty high level camp, so I think the description "Elite" was appropriate. You definitely want to be at least a very good skater and good stickhandler to get the most out of camp. In particular, you would want to be proficient in crossovers (both forward and backward), mohawks, and shuffle strides (forward c-cut with one skate while balanced on the heel of the other skate). I've never bothered to learn the mohawk, so I was kind of screwed on drills involving those. Sean didn't spend much time on skating fundamentals, compared to stickhandling and shooting. I think it's assumed that you are already a good skater. Sean really wanted to pack in a lot of material.
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