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IceHockey Coaches and Wooden Balls - South African UniHoki is Alive and Well
i recently got involved in the running of the inline hockey club where we play our UniHoki the club is small and seems to be in not the greatest shape in the world and if they should close down, we'll lose the kewlest UniHoki 'rink' (http://gallery.unicyclist.com/South-African-Uni-Hockey) in the world and that wouldn't be kewl during a recent comittee meeting (oh how i hate those things), a possible coaching clinic was discussed to be run by a young man who's studying Ice- and InLine Hockey coaching in Finland he's back in south africa for a short visit and they tried to put something together at fairly short notice due to the short notice, they couldn't get enough people together to make it viable i was quite keen on getting involved as im sure there must be sufficient simmilarities between the various hockey disciplines to be able to get some benefit from such a course i decided to give the guy a call and invite him down to the game yesterday 'just to have a look if he could add something to the way we play the game' that was really the full and final extent of my intention at the time well, we got the bargain package he watched us play for a 'first to 10' game ('The Dark Side' (we always play in black t-shirts) kicked the crap out of the other team 10-2) then Lawrence jumped on the rink and proceeded to take us thru the best part of a 2 hour coaching session focusing on the basics of cycle-control, riding forwards, backwards and making sharp turns he was also oddly keen on us being able to move laterally, which seemed rather quaint at first, but when used to close down an attack, proved to be a rather interesting move he introduced us to the wonder of wooden balls they are 40mm in diameter (a touch more than an inch) and are fairly light they're used in Ice-and InLine hockey coaching since u're not supposed to strike the ball with the head of the stick, but rather move it around in a sweep-like movement (and simmilarly receive the ball with a reverse of the sweep movement), there should never be ay audible 'TOCKING' when passing the ball to and fro the wooden balls make it very obvious when u're not doing this properly these balls are also very quick and may well become our ball of choice with the bevelled corners and the chest-high wall around the rink, these balls make it possible to play 'rim-shots' (all drummers, relax) where u can be riding back in defence and play the ball back down the wall, around the back of your own goal, and right onto the stick of your team mate who's calmly waiting on the other side of the pitch there is waaay less chance of an opposing player intercepting this pass than a traditional square pass Lawrence also pointed out that it was very obvious that we didn't practise very much as we tended to all chase the ball, much like under8 soccer players this he adressed by introducing more than one ball in a practise game and by splitting the teams (we were playing 4-a-side yesterday) down the middle and limiting each pair to one half of the field only he also took us thru some basic zonal play and a couple of basic 'break-out' plays for use when u restart the game after conceding a goal we played a game after the coaching, and the difference was immediately apparant if u're serious about your UniHoki, try n find an Ice- InLine Hockey coach and see if u can arrange for a couple of coaching sessions -- GILD - Waffle-Tosser, Time-bider and JCTK if you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.-- 'alice' (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/custom.html?) 'roosevelt' (http://tinyurl.com/963jr) 'longworth' (http://tinyurl.com/78ybd) I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.-- 'william h mauldin' (http://www.johnconyers.com/) ...using nietzsche's metaphysics to escape from christianity...-'metro_tramp on the value of metaphysics' (http://tinyurl.com/4sjw6)- it's hard to be sure, and good to be paranoid...john childs on life on the internet 'harper' (http://tinyurl.com/c9epx) 'NAMASTE!' (http://tinyurl.com/4qcxw) 'Dave' (http://www.lyricsdir.com/d/deep-purp...ld-in-time.php) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GILD's Profile: http://www.unicyclist.com/profile/657 View this thread: http://www.unicyclist.com/thread/42775 |
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