Carberry Breakfast Club

Hockey Manitoba and LTAD• Mentor our volunteer grassroots coaches

• Develop specialty clinics to take to all communities so coaches can learn at home

• Develop strategies to get players more ice time: e.g.. Breakfast Club

• Develop resources that coaches can use as reference and personal development

Philosophy of the Breakfast Club• Make use of idle ice and be inclusive.• Provide an opportunity for players to get

“extra ice” time in a structured way and thus improve their skills

• Repetition, using a variety of drills will improve game confidence

• Provide an opportunity to mentor coaches and model good ice management

Long Term Athlete Development• Experts say it takes close to 10,000

repetitions to master a skill!!

• Poor training of hockey skills ages 6-16 can never be fully recovered

• “Windows” for development occur and ages 9-12 is very important for acquiring skills

Our Goals

• Provide an opportunity for players to improve their skills through quality drills

• Model good practice techniques and activities to coaches who attend

• Create drills specific to the needs of the players but challenge all.

• Stress this is voluntary, we do not pressure or recruit kids to come.

• Free of charge where possible

Focus: Puck Control and Skating

Types of Drills

• Structured Drills • Set drills to master skills• Practice and repetition to

train fine motor skills• Usually a set design to

guide players

• Creativity Drills• Put players in a situation

where they need to “read and react”; make a decision

• Develop hockey sense• Timing, support, seeing the

ice, pressure or contain etc.• Game like conditions

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Carberry Breakfast Club• Full equipment will be required• Sessions are 1 day a week (to start depending on

interest) at 7:15 am – 8:00 am. Breakfast will follow, but you must be at school on time

• Breakfast will be provided through sponsor donations, fundraisers and volunteers, details TBC

• Development Fee: dependant upon donations and sponsorship

• 2009 we plan on running 21 sessions Nov-March

Breakfast Club Agenda• Skill drills, 3-4 a practice• Numerous “puck touches”• Age specific but we don’t

underestimate players• Progressions and stations• We will have 4-6 volunteer

coaches who will run the program this season.

Video

Breakfast Club DVDs

• Hockey Manitoba produced 2 DVDs with over 100 drills and progressions which emphasize puck control drills. Most of these drills are on the CMHA web site.

• It can be used in a Breakfast Club format or can be incorporated into practices

• You can adapt and modify for your team

Feedback

• Players will improve their skating and puck handling skills

• Coaches taking the extra ice time to correct errors and suggesting ways to improve their game

• Players will develop more confidence in games to be creative with the puck

On Ice Experience • Never too late to do skills• Players are deficient in many

areas• They appreciate learning new

things• We need to teach these skills at

a younger age• Practices are the key: repetition

for motor skill memory• We shouldn’t criticize coaches,

we need to help them

Video

Challenges• Volunteer coaches: big commitment. The more kids, the more help needed• Carberry “Breakfast Club “coordinator- Mike Donais;• Number of kids initially; set age/number limit? A certain skill level is needed for

drills. Number dependant will separate kids into age categories i.e.- Novice/Atom and PeeWee/Bantum, No one will be turned away;

• Supervision needs to be done until all kids leave;• School liaison to be sure they are there on time;• Discipline: clear to parents that this is not a practice and behavior problems will not

be tolerated; • Town/ municipal council and rink manager: free ice;• Corporate and local sponsorship initiatives; and• Support and train your on ice coaches (NCMP clinic, visitation to see the structure).

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he hasThe courage to loose sight of the shore. Andre Gide

Specialty Clinics for Coaches• Competitive Games for Efficient Practices• Developing Defensemen• The WHL Draft and scouting of young players• How to use Goaltenders in Practice• Choices: clarifying the choices aspiring players have• Introduction to body contact• Puck Control• Skating BasicsThese are seminars for coaches/minor hockey associations who may

find the information useful. They are free of charge; we ask that hosts pay for any local expenses such as ice, advertising, venue etc.

Skills Through Drills!!

Registration

• Teams identify kids interested in participating in the program; Co-ord:Mike Donais mjdonais@mts.net or Chuck Roeder

• roeder@westman.wave.ca• Associated cost TBC;• Age and numbers will dictate structure,

Novice/Atom Day1, Pee Wee/Bantam Day 2

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