Welcome to our whatâs in the bag series!
Whatâs up guys!
Jeremy Weiss here with Weiss Tech hockey and recently Iâve started getting a few questions about coaching gear.
Itâs been kind of interesting⊠a little bit differentâŠ
At first it was just one or two questions here and there, but lately it has started to kind of grow and expand and Iâve been getting emails about a wide range of different questions on recommendations for this and that.
So I figured it might be a cool idea to do a series called âWhatâs in the Bag?â
You can check out the entire Table of Contents by clicking the button below:
Okay⊠Here we go!
So this is my actual coaching bag. Iâm actually very picky about the coaching gear I use. If itâs something that matters to me, Iâm very specific about it. Everything that I use, I use for specific reasons and so thatâs what weâre gonna do over the next few videos.
Weâll just go through everything in my bag together⊠starting with my bag itself!
My bag is very specific to the way that I want it. Name brand doesnât matters as much on this one (this one is an Easton Synergy Elite). I got this a long time ago itâs been a great bag for me. But Iâm not as concerned about the name brand as I am about the functionality.
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Hereâs why I use my specific bag:
- IT FITS MY WHITEBOARD â There are plenty of cool bag designs out there⊠but if they canât fit your basic coaching gear, theyâre worthless. I have a specific coaches whiteboard I use for practices. Itâs fantastic, and Iâm very committed to it. So my bag had to be big enough to fit my whiteboard along with my other gear.
- ITâS WELL BUILT â This bag is well built, heavy duty, and has lasted me over a decade without anything falling apart. The stitching and zippers are all as good as new.
- IT HAS WHEELS â Iâve been known to tease my players who use the wheelie bags (all in good fun), so you know they tease me back when they see Iâm rocking a wheelie bag as well
. The difference is⊠First, Iâm old. Second, and most importantly, coaches have way heavier stuff than players. If youâre bringing your own pucks, cones, or any other training aids, youâre racking up poundage like crazy! Get a bag with wheels and save your arm from ripping off at the shoulder. - END POCKETS FIT MY CLIPBOARD â End pockets are nothing unique. But this bag fits my needs because it fits my stuff. My clipboard fits perfectly into the end pockets of this bag, making it easy to haul everything I need into the rink.
This is not a full-size gear bag. Itâs about 30 inches. When I measured it it was measuring about 33 from the wheels to the far end. So weâre in and around 30 to 33 inches.
So that is the coaches bag that I use and recommend.
Again, go to Table of Contents page for this series, and youâll see all the other products⊠Everything that is in my very own coaching bag. By the end of this youâll have seen everything I use in my coaching, and the reasons why Iâm using each item.
Hope it helps! See you in the next video!
Jeremy
Jeremy Weiss (with his translator) presenting at a hockey coaching symposium for the Russian Federation in Moscowâ2018.
Who is Jeremy Weiss?
Hockey coach and international consultant, Jeremy Weiss, has worked with thousands of coaches worldwide since 2008 to help produce championship teams at every age and skill level.
He is known internationally through the work he has done online. In 2008 he invented âdigital chalktalksâ which combined screen sharing with drill diagramming software, to produce a training experience nobody had ever seen before. His YouTube following quickly grew to over 19,000 subscribers, and he has produced over 130 training videos.
Jeremy runs a development blog for coaches, which has over 280 posts. He is the author of 10 hockey books for coaches, and is the editor of Hockey Development Magazine.
He was trained in the Eastern European style as a pre-teen, by his Czechoslovakian skills coach, and competed internationally as a âWexford Raiderâ among the top youth hockey programs in the world including Russia, Czechoslovakia, Finland, and top teams in his home province Ontario, Canada.
He majored in Exercise Sciences at Brigham Young University, and subsequently worked as a Personal Trainer, where he continued to study and develop ideal training methods for hockey.
He has incorporated the very best pieces from the various training styles he has been involved in, and has built a world-class off-ice strength and conditioning program that fits the specific needs of hockey players.
