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Läste en mycket bra artikel om att välja camp och/eller målvaktstränare, den var så bra så jag snodde den rätt av! Den finns på Ingoalmagazine...
So you have decided your son or daughter needs a goaltending coach/instructor or requires a goaltending camp or school. After due consideration, you realize they won’t improve their skills as a goaltender without proper help. Note the key term – “proper.”
How do you select a goaltending coach or program?
First of all realize one thing: anyone who spends one-on-one time with your favourite goaltender will help them to improve in some small way. No matter how poorly or how well-trained they are! Surprised? Well for years something called the “Hawthorne Effect” has had a considerable impact upon the learning experience. In the early part of the 20th century efficiency experts or workplace study specialists found that when a manager or leader interacts with an individual or student that person’s performance will improve. No matter how skilled the teacher or leader may be!
The mere personal attention of the leader helps to build up the student’s self-confidence and thereby assists with their learning.
So if you hire anyone to work with your favourite goaltender they will improve their performance. BUT if you want to improve their performance by an even greater factor you need to identify certain qualities in your prospective goaltending coach.
Question 1 – Have they ever played goal?
Surprisingly, this may seem obvious but there are so-called goalie coaches/instructors who have never played goal. Recently an individual who I have come to respect for his skills as a goaltending instructor was replaced as goalie coach for a local junior hockey club by someone who was a friend of the owner but who had never played goal!
I feel a goaltender will relate better and bond more easily with someone who has played goal. Also someone who has played goal will have a better sense of the psychology of goaltending or the goalie “psyche.” Someone who has experienced the burden of performing as a goaltender in a critical game knows what a young goaltender goes through.
Question 2 – Have they a background in the science of goaltending?
Any goaltending coach with a background in bio-mechanics and athletic movement (kinesiology) will have a better approach to analyzing a goaltender’s movement and in correcting errors. A coach who merely tells goaltenders how to move or react to game situations without knowing why will not be an effective instructor. Simply having a goaltender move in a certain way because that is they way you played isn’t enough. A coach has to be able to explain properly why something works.
If that instructor has knowledge of sport psychology, as well, he will be better able to properly prepare a goaltender for the mental game.
Question 3 – Are they a certified hockey coach?
Anyone who works with a goaltender should be a certified Hockey Canada or USA Hockey coach. Being certified insures they have been trained in all aspects of coaching i.e growth & development, communications, skill analysis, how to run an efficient practice, fitness & conditioning etc. Having their certification also demonstrates to you the goalie coach’s commitment to continually learning. For no one knows everything about goaltending – they have to keep acquiring knowledge.
Question 4 – What formal education do they have?
Has your goalie coach a physical education degree, fitness instructor certificate or teaching degree? Teaching requires formalized training. One doesn’t wake up one morning a teacher. Now there are some who have an aptitude to teach or train but without the formal training they are incomplete. Knowing what has to be taught and how to properly convey that information progressively requires training.
Question 5 – What experience do they have?
How long have they been coaching goaltenders and where? Choosing a goaltending coach who has run goaltending clinics, camps or schools for several years means they have some success. In fact, if you read testimonials from students or parents or can even talk to anyone who has attended the clinics you will be providing yourself with valuable information.
Question 6 – Are they a goaltending school or a hockey school which has a goaltending component?
A specialized goaltending school has no doubt about its existence. It is there to promote the development of goaltenders. A hockey school may be tempted to use goaltenders as targets for their other students – defensemen and forwards!
Question 7 – How do they work on-ice?
It would help if you can attend an on-ice or off-ice session run by the prospective coach or instructor.
Finally…
You will notice I haven’t said anything about whether they have played pro hockey. Although a former pro or junior goaltender will have an appreciation of the stress or requirements of playing at that level, they still need to know how to teach, how to analyze skills, how to correct errors and how to run an efficient on-ice and off-ice practice. Keep these points in mind, remain an informed purchaser, ask questions and shopping for the right goaltending coach or camp will become a more successful enterprise.
Satt och gick igenom de allsvenska lagens målvaktsbesättningar och slogs av vilken klass och vilka meriter de flesta målvakterna har. Följande målvakter har rutin från elitserien:
Nicklas Dahlberg, Örebro
Andro Michel, Örebro
Daniel Sperrle, Västerås
Lars Karlsson, Västerås
Magnus Åkerlund, Borås
Jonas Fransson, Rögle
Joel Gistedt, Rögle
Pontus Sjögren, Malmö
Sebastian Idoff, Södertälje
Axel Brage, Sundsvall
Christoffer Bengtsberg, Mora
Michal Zajkowski, Tingsryd
Hannu Toivonen, Malmö, har NHL meriter.
Jag har haft förmånen att både få spela mot och med Stefan Liv, en oerhört varm och omtänksam kille och målvakt. Alltid rolig att prata med och slänga lite käft med.
Det är oerhört tragisk det som inträffat idag, det vittnar om hur sköra våra liv är.
Stefan, du kommer alltid att vara ihågkommen i hockeyvärlden.
Luta er tillbaka och njut av lite härligt plockgodis!
Har precis sett en bra DVD från en mentalcoach. Han hade många tänkvärda och kloka råd. Här är några små frågor man kan ställa sig själv vare sig det gäller privatlivet eller målvaktsspelet.
VILL
GÖRA
STARTA
SLUTA
Vad VILL jag uppnå? Hur skall jag GÖRA för att uppnå detta? Jag måste STARTA något och jag måste SLUTA med något för att uppnå förändring(läs bli bättre). Ganska enkelt att översätta detta till målvaktsspelet, eller hur?
Hörde att Joakim Lundström, Timrå blev hånad av sin gamla hemmapublik i Sundsvall i samband med SCA cupen. Pinsamt!
Norge turnen avslutades igår med match mot norska mästarlaget Sparta från Sarpsborg. Bergh är strålande i målet och är en starkt bidragande orsak till att Hästen kan vinna över Sparta med 5-3. Norge resan är över och vi rullar in i Norrköping vid 04.30
Någon timma sömn i omklädningsrummet blev det innan bilen rullade vidare mot Borås och målvaktsträning på förmiddagen där. En timma nötande och diskuterande med Bjurö och Åkerlund. Bjurö som för övrigt gjorde en stark match mot Oskarshamn kvällen innan där han räddade 34 av 36 skott.
Lång resa som påbörjades klockan 05.00 i lördags avslutades klockan 13.00 torsdag, pust...eat sleep hockey!
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