Weiss Tech Hockey Drills and Skills

04Feb 2014 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Improve Your Coaching Through Technology

Coaches' Corner, Philosophy, Team Systems, Useful Products

Using Technology to Improve Your Coaching One of my goals at Weiss Tech Hockey is to help coaches improve their game through technology. I believe that technology can help coaches communicate more effectively with their players, increase their knowledge base, network with other coaches, and find opportunities to be mentored… the sky is the limit! Recently, Apple has revamped their iBooks app, which has created a neat platform that is perfect for producing and consuming educational material. The first time I saw what the new platform was capable of, I immediately thought of our playbook! So I set to work reconfiguring the playbook to take advantage of this new platform. In the iBooks version of the Weiss Tech Playbook, we’ve taken our written playbook, with text and diagrams, and we’ve…

01Feb 2014 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

How to Set Up a “Kronwallian” Hit

Neutral Zone, Team Systems

How to Set Up a “Kronwallian” Hit Have you ever noticed how often Kronwall lines himself up to lay a big hit? Have you ever wondered how he does it? Setting up a big hit takes more skill than many folks realize; it takes skating ability, timing, size, and strength. But in Kronwall’s case, there’s even more to it than that. Believe it or not, Detroit’s systems are actually playing a huge role in setting up these “Kronwallian” hits, as we call them. In the video above, you’ll notice that Detroit often runs a 1-2-2 forecheck. The way they set it up creates what I call a “kill zone.” I talked a bit about the Kill Zone in my NZ Trap Clarification post. Basically, the first forward in pressures, then…

11Dec 2013 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Fast Hands Review

Hockey Drills, Individual Skill Drills, Off-ice Training, Skills, Stickhandling

Fast Hands will Help You Develop Soft, Smooth, Fast, Precise Hands I recently had the chance to try out the Fast Hands hockey stickhandling training aid. It quickly became one of my favorite pieces of stickhandling equipment of all time! Here's what it's all about: Design: Fast Hands is shaped like a half-octagon, and has five openings, which are just tall enough for a puck to slide under. Each opening has a number, which allows you to prescribe drill sequences to work on various stickhandling skills (i.e. 4, 1, 2, 3) Drills: As good a product as Fast Hands is, what REALLY makes it great is to use the drill sequences from the Fast Hands video. Getting your reps in on the prescribed movements will improve your hands FAST. I…

06Nov 2013 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Center Pass for Mites & Squirts

1 on 1's, 2 on 2's, 2 on 1's, 3 on 2's, Defensive Zone, Hockey Drills, Individual Skill Drills, Offensive Zone, Passing & Timing, Shooting, Team Skill Drills

Center Pass is a Great Drill for Younger Age Groups I've been using this drill with my Mite team this year, and have already seen the kids executing it in our games! In the video I show two variations, but you can make more adaptations as you see fit. Here's the diagram and explanation: Center Pass Variation 1: 1. Coach dumps the puck into the corner 2. First player in white line goes and gets it 3. Next player in line goes to the front of the net 4. Pass out from the corner, shot on goal Variation 2: 1. Coach dumps the puck into the corner 2. First player in white line goes and gets it 3. One white and one blue drive the net, white trying to get…

07Oct 2013 by Jeremy Weiss No Comments

Help Get Green Biscuit “On the Shelf” at Walmart!

Coaches' Corner, Hockey Equipment, Off-ice Training, Skills, Useful Products

Green Biscuit Among the Top 20 Products of Walmart's "On the Shelf" Contest Green Biscuit has made it to the Top 20 of Walmart's "On the Shelf" contest. This is awesome news for Green Biscuit and for our game as a whole! I wanted to take a minute and fill you in on how the competition works, what's already happened, and where it goes from here. Here we go! On the Shelf The competition started back in July--Walmart asked people to submit their products. From there, Walmart picked hundreds of products, then the public voted on their favorites until the end of September. The products that had the most public votes made it to the top 20 finalists. For the competition, Green Biscuit will be debuting three new pucks: Green…

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