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Originally Posted by finnish beaver
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...
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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.... |
To address some points made by Beaver & Jukka,
1) It was shocking for me to find out that there are numerous Jr. A teams (at least in Ontario) that do not have their own goalie coach. Last year I was employed by a Jr. A team but they had to really 'beg' the team ownership for funding to pay me. It's a very short sighted, bottom line decision IMO.
2) 5 sessions and games on weekends sounds similar to a well run AAA team in Canada. Almost every AAA team does have private goalie coaching, which is kind of ironic.
Fortunately, I am now being hired to train much younger AA & AAA goalies (Atom, Peewee, Bantam) indicating that coaches are seeing the benefit to long term involvement. Teams are getting much better at selling the whole overall training experience, versus just selling practices and games.
3) I am curious as to the type and scope of mental training you do with your Junior goalies? I train high performance / elite goalies every week and I have an hour of class time before the session. Most of my discussion time so far has been video/technical review and broad concept topics. Can you share some ideas for mental training?
It appears that Finland has a much more focused goalie program than Canada. I'm seeing some trending towards better training here but from the sound of it we are still quite a ways behind.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Wellsie