Breakfast Club Session II with Kirk
Great skate today, due to my schedule I couldn't skate on my normal Wednesday so I skated Thursday at the Dearborn Ice Skating Center, a nice rink. Hey Scottie O, no I didn't sleep in you big ......... Sorry folks to clean the dirty laundry in public. A smaller class, 11 good skaters, yes Laura including one woman. I recognized a few guys from a few years ago when I skated at a class there. Coach Joe does the class solo. He keeps it moving and nobody was complaining about ice time. A few winded players at times, including myself.
Started off with full ice crossover drills while receiving passes and then shooting on goal. How often does this happen in a game situation? Safe to say alot. Looking back at my several distinguished pro years of BC Warrior experience when I first started these types of drills I was happy just to maintain my speed. Today Joe was stressing acceleration in the turn: quick feet, knee bend, shoulder turn, GET ON THAT EDGE KIRK (yes I heard Lyle's voice reminding me of that), and pushing off with the toe. You get this technique clicking and you'll have some moves to shake off defenders and fly into the offensive zone. We all know speed is a great weapon especially while in a turn. Isn't that a demotivator when you get smoked by a player cranking up the speed. Oh, do you have a strong side? Mine is turning left. Now practice going the other way.
We changed it up and had some two player quick passing in around the net for a scoring chance. Stressing today the quick release. We know that we will rarely have enough time to make a perfect shot so practicing a quick quality shot even on the off foot will pad our scoring stats. Talk to me baby. I think I had a quality shot on goal less than half the time and that was with no defenders. So with defenders, you get the picture. The goal scorers probably shoot about 75-80% quality shots in those situations. I pulled that stat out of my .....ear.
Overall, a great skate. To my fellow Wednesday brothers and sisters, I actually did not cause any serious drill disruption today. It makes a big difference when the other players don't know me well enough to chirp at me yet. Notice no verbal slashes on my teammates or Joe today, I can't even make up stuff on these guys. They are squeaky clean unlike some of the Wednesday convicts I hang with. I feel incomplete without drying someone out.
I would encourage you folks to try another day, to skate with other players and hear another coach describe technique and tactics it can give another perspective that can hit home. Good skate today Joe.
Lyle you may need to get a large Timmy Horton's next week there is too much nicey nice stuff going on around here. I'm storing up double trouble for next week. Okay speak up, Scottie, Donnie, Todd, Matt, Tom, Ronnie, Jeff, Mike, who sat in my spot on Wednesday, show a little respect for the veteran players. Kirk out.
Started off with full ice crossover drills while receiving passes and then shooting on goal. How often does this happen in a game situation? Safe to say alot. Looking back at my several distinguished pro years of BC Warrior experience when I first started these types of drills I was happy just to maintain my speed. Today Joe was stressing acceleration in the turn: quick feet, knee bend, shoulder turn, GET ON THAT EDGE KIRK (yes I heard Lyle's voice reminding me of that), and pushing off with the toe. You get this technique clicking and you'll have some moves to shake off defenders and fly into the offensive zone. We all know speed is a great weapon especially while in a turn. Isn't that a demotivator when you get smoked by a player cranking up the speed. Oh, do you have a strong side? Mine is turning left. Now practice going the other way.
We changed it up and had some two player quick passing in around the net for a scoring chance. Stressing today the quick release. We know that we will rarely have enough time to make a perfect shot so practicing a quick quality shot even on the off foot will pad our scoring stats. Talk to me baby. I think I had a quality shot on goal less than half the time and that was with no defenders. So with defenders, you get the picture. The goal scorers probably shoot about 75-80% quality shots in those situations. I pulled that stat out of my .....ear.
Overall, a great skate. To my fellow Wednesday brothers and sisters, I actually did not cause any serious drill disruption today. It makes a big difference when the other players don't know me well enough to chirp at me yet. Notice no verbal slashes on my teammates or Joe today, I can't even make up stuff on these guys. They are squeaky clean unlike some of the Wednesday convicts I hang with. I feel incomplete without drying someone out.
I would encourage you folks to try another day, to skate with other players and hear another coach describe technique and tactics it can give another perspective that can hit home. Good skate today Joe.
Lyle you may need to get a large Timmy Horton's next week there is too much nicey nice stuff going on around here. I'm storing up double trouble for next week. Okay speak up, Scottie, Donnie, Todd, Matt, Tom, Ronnie, Jeff, Mike, who sat in my spot on Wednesday, show a little respect for the veteran players. Kirk out.
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