USA Hockey Level 2 Coaching Clinic

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USA Hockey Level 2 Coaching Clinic
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Welcome and Congratulations ...
for your wise choice to become a better USA
Hockey Coach
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Associate Level Clinic Schedule
Registration Welcome/Introductions USA Hockey
CEP Philosophy, Mission, Value Statements, and
Educational Guidelines Role of the Coach,
Effectively Communicating with Young Athletes,
Coaching Ethics
Injuries Lecture for the CEP Yearly
Planning/Practice Planning/Ice Utilization Quest
ion and Answer Session
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Associate Level Clinic Goals
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This is USA Hockey
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Mission Statement for the CEP
Develop effective instructors and role
models What word is missing here? Emphasizing
Fundamental Skills (individual) Conceptual
Development (team) Sportsmanship Respect for
the dignity of the individual athlete
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Mission Statement for the CEP
Recommends guidelines that encourage a
non-competitive environment in which children and
youth can learn the basic skills without
distractions that are associated with an
over-emphasis on winning
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USA Hockey CEP Components and Competencies
Sports Medicine/Safety/Legal Psycho-Social Sports
Science Bio-Physical Sports Science Pedagogy Tech
nical and Tactical
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The Diverse Role of the Coach
Administrative
Conceptual
Technical
COACH
Human
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Overhead
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Four Aspects of Coaching
Technical develop skills Administrative
managerial tasks Conceptual team play
tactics Humanistic emphasizes total development
of player for life
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The Humanistic Role is the Most Important Role of
the Coach
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Reasons why kids participate in sports

• Improve skills or learn new ones
• Thrill and excitement of competition
• Be with the team!
• Succeed or win

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Reasons why kids dont

• Became involved in other activities
• I had to work
• Uninterested
• I didnt play enough or didnt like the coach
• I wasnt improving anymore

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Principles of Effective Communicators
Enthusiasm Positive Demanding but
considerate Consistent and clear Frequent Give
equal time to all players Be patient
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Other coaching theories

• When communicating, use a 41 ratio!
• 4 positive statements to 1 negative
• Praise loudly, criticize softly
• Sandwich effort positive, negative, positive
• Prepare and delegate!
• Use of consistent, well-thought out drills is
  essential. Repetition is good!
• Minimize down time in practice

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Other coaching theories

• Teach great effort, everything should follow
• Leave Nothing to Chance

Sportsmanship, Effort, Strategy
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The Coach Has Many Roles Which Are You?
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Working with Parents

• Coaches parents often have different goals
• do your parents value development or winning?
• Parents are more interested in their child than
  team
• communicate goals for team with them
• foster open discussion with them to alleviate
  future problems
• Avoid conversing under stressful conditions
• after game or practice
• choose a time when there will be no rush
• listen first, offer opinions later
• Make them your allies

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The Coach
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Impact of Coaches
- I have come to the frightening conclusion that
I am the decisive element on the ice. - It is
my personal approach that creates the climate.
- It is my mood that makes the daily weather.
- As a coach, I possess tremendous power to make
a childs life miserable or joyous.
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Impact of Coaches
- I can be the tool of torture or an instrument
of inspiration. - I can humiliate or humor, hurt
or heal. - In all situations, it is my response
that decides whether a crisis will be escalated
or de-escalated and a child humanized or
dehumanized.
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Reasons Why People Coach
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Characteristics of Philosopher Coaches
1. Commitment to individual integrity, values,
and personal growth. 2. See themselves as
educators, not just coaches. 3. Commitment to
their athletes and their institution. 4. Willing
to experiment with new ideas. 5. Value the
coach-player relationship, winning aside.
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Characteristics of Philosopher Coaches
6. Understand and appreciate human nature. 7.
Love their sport and work. 8. Honest and strong
in character. 9. Human and therefore imperfect.
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Your Coaching Philosophy
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Reasons for Planning
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Season and Practice Planning Steps Checklist
Develop a season schedule Develop daily practice
plan sheets Organize activities and
drills Evaluate each daily practice, activity,
and drill and restart at step 1 if modification
is needed
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Season and Practice Planning Guidelines for Youth
Hockey

• Break season down into segments
• easy 3 pre-, mid-, late-season
• set goals for each
• review each segment at its completion
• did you accomplish your goals?
• change as needed

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Season and Practice Planning Guidelines for Youth
Hockey

• Schedule 3 practices for every game
• Recommended max number of games
• Mites 15 games
• Squirts 20 games
• Pee Wees 30 games
• Bantams 35 games
• Midget/HS 45 games

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Season and Practice Planning Guidelines for Youth
Hockey

• Limit travel for Mite/Squirt parents
• to increase adherence to the program!
• Provide ample opportunities for
• skill development
• develop to the limits of their potential,
  regardless of abilities
• De-emphasize scoring/winning records
• mites/squirts/pee wees

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Practice planning and implementing

• Emphasize being on time!
• Maximize your resources
• space, equipment, staff, teaching tools
• Teach similar fundamentals with different drills
• will increase enthusiasm and enjoyment
• be creative
• Dont rush through drills
• learn to read players and their skills
• spend more time on one if needed

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Practice planning and implementing

• Always be talking and helping
• dont just point out what they did wrong, but how
  to correct it
• Introduce practice goals at start and summarize
  at end
• Teach skills within drills sequentially
• teach most basic aspect of skill first
• then add more as they master the skill

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Practice planning and implementing

• Characteristics of a good drill
• has a meaningful name
• short explanation required
• keeps players on-task time high (3 reps or
  more!)
• modifiable to accommodate varied skill levels
• maximum players involved
• maximum usage of pucks
• performed at game tempo and intensity

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Practice planning and implementing

• Practice harder than you play ? tempo
• move quickly from drill to drill if possible
• use chasers to increase tempo and speed
• limit flow drills
• give reason to compete (rewards)
• set time constraints to make them finish faster
• limit space for drill to increase stress

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Practice planning and implementing

• Plan your week
• establish a theme for each practice
• skills on Monday-Tuesday?
• team play/conditioning Wednesday-Thursday?
• always focus on fundamental skills
• Plan fun activities with less structure

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Progression in Teaching
10 of what we read 20 of what we hear 30 of
what we see 50 of what we both see and hear 70
of what is discussed with others 80 of what we
experience 95 of what we teach to someone else
How We Learn
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Progression in Teaching
Show skill in its entirety Break down into
smaller learning components Move players through
each component slowly Give positive feedback Have
players put all of the components together and
execute the skills in their entirety
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Overhead of skills progression pyramid
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Practice review

• Be on time
• Clearly explain each drill
• If drill is not being done correctly, STOP!
• Take active recovery breaks as necessary
• Maintain tempo
• Involve all coaches
• Create competition
• Foster fun atmosphere
• Teach using small groups when possible

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Practice Plan Workshop

• Instructions
• Work together in groups
• Each group will prepare a typical early season,
  mid-season, and late season practice for Pee
  Wees
• Each group must reach a consensus on the plan
• 20-25 minutes to work on the plan
• Each group must appoint a recorder/presenter
• Each group will present their results

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Topics Covered and Question Areas
Session 2 USA Hockey Education Program
Overview Session 3 Role of the Coach Session
4 First Aid Lecture for the CEP Session
5 Planning Practice, the Season, and Ice
Utilization
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Main Topics Covered
CEP Overview Role of the Coach On-Ice
Emergencies Planning Practice, the Season, and
Ice Time
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Persistence
Nothing in the world can take the place of
persistence. Talent will not nothing is more
common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius
will not unrewarded genius is almost a
proverb. Education will not the world is full of
educated derelicts. PERSISTENCE and
DETERMINATION alone are omnipotent President
Calvin Coolidge
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Once You Remember That Everyday Is A Gift You
Will Never Have A Bad Day.
Bob Johnson
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Its a Great Day for Hockey
Bob Johnson
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Congratulations!!
On the completion of the USA Hockey Level 2
Coaching Education Program Clinic!
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