Defensive Teaching Points:
- Defense must get up over defensive blue line on clears
- The closest forward must pressure the puck carrier
- Defense can not give up ice
- Defense need to play tight gap
- No free shots
Finland Offensive Tactics On Clear:
- 1 forward stays back in offensive zone to draw attention of defense
- Finland passes to forward just at or over blue line
- The tactic catches the defense giving up ice or standing still
Sports Psychology Tips:
Serious Athletes Keep A Metal Training Log:
- It is a long-established fact that writing things down helps to increase performance, increases the odds on achieving goals and succeeding
- A mental training log is completed by a player after each training session and game
- Write down all the things you said to yourself that helped you perform better
- Write down all the things you said to yourself that inhibited your performance
- Allow you to recognize negative pattern and replace them with positive behaviors
- Allows you become aware of stress and how to resolve it
- Allows you to recognize muscle tension and learn to relax
- Allows you to identify your own peak performance state and learn to duplicate it
- Allows you to track your progress and goals
- Helps you set short term process goals to improve your mental skill set to succeed
Power Thoughts:
“Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.”
–Henry Ford
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“If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.”
-Carl Lewis
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