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Permission to fail in female hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted October 2, 2009 at 12:19pm
Earlier this week, my girls hockey players were working on full-ice 1v1 drills and I had to admit I was frustrated at their lack of gap control. To be fair, one of the hardest things for all hockey players to do (especially defensemen) is to keep a tight...more
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Do you have to be selfish to stand-out?
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 28, 2009 at 1:04pm
To be honest, being an elite athlete is a pretty selfish pursuit. And becoming an elite female hockey player is no exception.
Most of your decisions in day-to-day life are guided by the question, “Will this make me a better player or not?” You ma...more
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Girls Hockey Tournament Success Guide
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 25, 2009 at 12:35pm
This weekend, there will be over 500 teams participating in 3 huge girls hockey tournaments in the Toronto area. As of Monday, every single team and player I work with will have played in at least one tournament - some are already onto their second. The...more
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How to get ahead in girls hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 23, 2009 at 1:05pm
Yesterday I sent an email out to about 800 members of the Total Female Hockey community and asked them what was the #1 piece of information or advice I could give them to help them have the most successful season ever. Most of the questions were about ge...more
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The Case of the Pink Hockey Gloves
by One Sport Voice
posted September 23, 2009 at 1:19am
A couple years ago a student in my Psychology of Coaching class told me a story of a local youth hockey coach. This coach wanted to make his team of U12 boys “tougher.” To accomplish this goal, he decided to give the least tough skater on his team (...more
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The most dangerous word in girls hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 21, 2009 at 5:03pm
I’m seeing a disturbing pattern emerge with many of the girls hockey players I am working with this season - and the season hasn’t even started yet. Whether during practices, games or off-ice training, every single day I hear players saying the most...more
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Never tell a girls hockey coach this…
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 17, 2009 at 2:59pm
Last night, I presented my 11th workshop of the last two weeks. Good thing I like to talk, right?
This is going to sound weird but… I honestly enjoy educating girls hockey coaches, trainers, players and parents about what they can do to get to the next...more
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Women's Hockey: Check, Please
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 16, 2009 at 1:05pm
Every so often, someone raises the specter of adding checking to women's hockey, and the journalism world goes into a sexist tizzy. The annoying aspect of this is it forces the women's sports community to respond, and we re-hash the same tired arguments...more
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Strangest Off-Ice Training Exercise Ever?
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 14, 2009 at 5:42pm
OK so I have to admit that I like to think outside the box when it comes to off-ice training - and female hockey player development in general. Watch the 2 minute video below and you will see one of the strangest off-ice training exercises I use when tra...more
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Women's Hockey: (No) check, please
by After Atalanta
posted September 9, 2009 at 11:37am
The perennial debate in women's hockey is back, intensified by the forthcoming start of the season, and the Vancouver Olympics. To check or not to check.It's an issue the semi-pro players in Nancy Theberge's study of Canadian hockey spoke about. And it ap...more
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#1 reason girls hockey teams under-achieve
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 8, 2009 at 1:24pm
To all you girls hockey coaches out there…let’s be honest. You and I both know that your team’s on-ice skills, strategies and systems are essential to your success this season - without them, you can’t play the game.
But you don’t just want to...more
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Does body checking belong in women’s hockey?
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 7, 2009 at 2:13pm
Here we go again. On the eve of another big match-up between the US and Canada tonight, there has been plenty of talk of whether they should put body-checking back into women’s hockey (it was a part of the game up until 1990). The issue of whether the...more
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It's coming...
by After Atalanta
posted September 4, 2009 at 5:43pm
I am headed to a Harvest Bonfire tonight which means it is getting chillier (at least at night). And if it's getting colder out that means....Hockey!The US National Team, heavy on the youngsters, is prepping for the Olympics. Right now they are in Vancou...more
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U.S. drops a game before roaring back In Canada Cup
by Women's Sports Blog
posted September 3, 2009 at 1:35pm
Well that was unexpected. Here I was, preparing a post about social and cultural reasons for the utter dominance of the U.S. and Canada in women's hockey (those reasons are not very clear cut, to be sure), and the Americans go and lose their opening mat...more
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What women’s hockey does NOT need more of…
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted September 1, 2009 at 12:44am
It’s official - I feel a rant coming on. Training camps have been underway for many girls hockey teams here in Ontario for the last few weeks. Coaches, parents and players are looking for ways that they can get an “edge” on their competition for n...more
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USA Hockey video in full
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 28, 2009 at 1:03pm
The photographer sent the embed code directly. It was very kind of him. It has also come to my attention that the brief and snarky nature of the hockey post has confused some about WSB's motives: we definitely love USA hockey around here. Just click '...more
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USA Hockey: 2009-2010 Edition
by Women's Sports Blog
posted August 27, 2009 at 1:33pm
The nats have announced the roster for the team which will take part in the 10-game tour leading up to the Olympics. Funny how the press release doesn't even name most of the players, instead identifying them by career highlights, and you have to click ...more
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#1 Roadblock in Girls Hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted August 20, 2009 at 4:48pm
All week long, my good friend Brooke and I have been running a 4-day pre-camp of on-ice and off-ice training for the Total Female Hockey Experience event that starts tomorrow morning. Before the BIG event gets underway, I wanted to share a GREAT story w...more
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