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Old 05-15-2008, 02:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampere/Finland
I`m coaching junior goalies in Tappara (16 x national champion).
Jukka Ropponen could tell more about finnish goalie coaching because of his long experience with goalies.

But anyway.. IMO the junior goalies mostly have own goalie coach in their team.
The situation is better than in any other countries, i suppose. That is the most important reason, why there is so many finnish top goalie for example in NHL.
My son is now 13 years old. He has about 5 ice session per week.That includes one special goalie ice. We have games every weekend during the season.

We are still training on the ice, thought there is summer knocking on the door.
For example; we have no pucks on our goalie ice. Movement, movement all the time...boring? No.. The guys know, why we are doing that.
Another important thing is to train lot of technic.
We also make lot of dry land training. Now, when on season is over, we train 5 times a week 2 ours each session.

We have now started the mental training for our junior goalies.
It is not usual in Finland. So, I try to do it a habit in finnish junior goalie coaching.
This situation is not so good than in Canada or States if we are talking about mental training.

We play games less, but we train more...

Maalivahdit.net

My own goalie coathing pages. I`m sorry; The pages are in finnish...so far.
We sell the licences to get in. There are now for example about 150 goalie drill clips and more coming etc. etc. Check the trailer. You see the level, we are doing our pages....
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