Teach "Your Game": Coaching Course
"A deep dive on the modern game."
This is an inside look at how to teach your players the modern game using principles and concepts, not systems...
In 2018-2020 while I was coaching junior hockey, I began to see a team play quite differently from what was considered normal. So, I watched every game they played over 3 seasons.
I began to see a few things emerge. And it wasn't structure and formation. It was something else.
Principles, not systems.
Don't think 1-2-2, think 'draw 2, play through'. The first is a 'system'. The second is a concept that guides player intention and attention:
For example on offense, principles of play include space/spacing. 2 components of this principle are:
- Building Space
- Filling Space
When your players understand things from a principles framework, players are more free to act on what is in front of them, instead of 2nd guessing if the coach wants to see a certain 'play' made.
Who Has Taken the Course?
Coaches, GMs and Leaders from:
- NHL
- AHL
- Ligue Magnus(France Professional)
- Major Junior (OHL, WHL, QmJHL)
- Canadian Junior A (BCHL and AJHL)
- NCAA Division 1 and 3
- USport Canadian College Hockey
- AAA, High School and Youth
- Soccer, Lacrosse and Basketball Coaches
What Will Happen After Taking This Course?
Teach your Game:
- Improves your tactical knowledge in 4 hours or less
- Improves your understanding of the modern game
- Gives you a template to build from
- Helps gives players clarity on principles of play
- Upskills yourself, your coaching staff, your players, and the team
- Scales learning so your players can learn without you present (read more on this concept here)
Learn how to turn the fast-paced chaos of ice hockey into easy-to-digest principles of play with Teach Your Game.
What You Get:
This 1-hour presentation walks through a blueprint of how to teach your players the principles of the game.
The presentation is yours to drag and drop into existing teaching you've created or to use my template to make it your own.
Inside the 1-hour presentation, 36 video examples are narrated to teach the principles highlighted in each clip.
- 1-hour presentation(PowerPoint)
- 3 hours of fully broken down video examples(videos embedded in PowerPoint)
- 10-page principles of play template to make your own. Drag and drop ideas, cut out, and create new sections. (Word Doc)
- 1 bonus Ebook where I open source my team culture playbook from the junior team I coached in 2018-2020