Running a good clinic
- Arrive to rink 30 min beforehand
- This way you can meet with staff and talk with parents
- Lead instructor brings pucks
- Have helmet for association work
- Not needed for a MEGA weekly clinic
- MEGA Attire required
- Have a spare set in case someone forgets theirs
- Gloves, Stick, Skates
- Have helmet for association work
- Communicate with staff on types of drills you’d like to run
- Text a day in advance about what you are working on
- Send videos
- Use drill database
- Use a lesson plan
- Text a day in advance about what you are working on
- Run 20 min of group/individual movement
- If association clinic, run group movement
- If weekly clinic, communicate with staff on if you’d rather run movement together or separate based on goalies age levels
- Correlate movements/skating with the theme for the session
- Make sure to communicate with goalies on things to work on or they are doing well during this time
- Demonstrate proper form
- iPad visual aid
- Communicate with whole group
- SPEAK LOUD!
- Make sure other coaches are staying involved by communicating with goalies on details
- DON’T let them just stand and watch
- After movement, break up into groups for station drills (30-40min)
- 3-4 goalies/station depending on # of coaches and goalies
- 2-4 stations
- Each station is doing a different drill based on the theme we are focusing on
- Carousel Reps for groups of 3 or more goalies
- 1 rep then next goalie hops in
- Keeps the energy level up and goalies moving
- 1 rep then next goalie hops in
- Use iPad
- Helps demonstrate things they are doing well or need to work on vs. demonstrating/explaining yourself
- Kids are visual learners
- Work through reps 1st then teach
- Run through a few reps to see some things the goalies need to work on
- Bring the goalies in and explain what they did well and what needs to be worked on
- Use iPad if needed to show
- Repeat the same drill after explaining things to help improve their skill during the drill
- Each station should be about 8-10min
- Time management is crucial
- Lead instructor should announce when they have 2min left for the station
- Try not to over talk during the station
- Getting the reps is crucial
- Lead instructor announces when goalies are rotating stations and communicate in which direction they are going
- Be LOUD
- If there is remaining time left, do a game with the goalies
- Ex. Shootout, goalie scrimmage, king of the net, etc.
- At the end of the session, have goalies help get pucks picked up
- Once all pucks are picked up, bring goalies in to chat about the session
- Each coach should have some input on the drills they worked on
- Ask goalies questions to help them learn
- Don’t just talk (They will tune you out)
- Have 2-3 goalies talk about what they learned or got better at
- Last, bring goalies in and do WOOOOOO GOALIES!
- Give feedback on GEM’s to the goalies in attendance