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Coaching techniques honedThe Canadian Amateur Hockey Association Is keen on upgrading the skills of Us coaches through seminars similar to one conducted La Victoria. Bringing together some of hockey’s moat qualified figures, inch seminars provide a valuable opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and experience.By GRANT KERR Third of liveVICTORIA (CP) - The fundamentals of hockey are taught at the amateur level, where the importance of sound coaching techniques is crucial to Ihe development of useful player skills.Most amateur coaches In Canada are volunteers, and the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association is attempting to upgrade their knowledge through a country-wide certification program.The B.C. Amateur Hockey Association recently held a Level 4 cuacb-ing seminar attended by about 75 qualified coaches at the University of Victoria.Tho program consisted of classroom presentations, ice sessions and small group workshops. The instructors were gathered from the professional, college, junior and amateur levels.Level 4 is the highest offered pro-vinrially and those who attended had previously been certified at levels 1, 2and 3. Some of the coaches indicated they were interested in progressing lo the national Level 5 seminar.“We brought many of the best hockey people in the country,” said Bob Nicholson, development co-ordinator for the amateur hockey association. ' These coaches were exposed to some of the best teachers to share in their knowledge.The coaching seminar was run in conjunction with the Junior Olympic program for midget-age players and a summer referees school for boys 14 lo 19.The presentations covered a wide area of topics, including psychology of coaching, physiology of hockey, goal tending, fitness, Bystems of play, skating, power play and penalty killing, leaching methods and improve menl of fundamentals.Head coach Dave King of the University of Saskatchewan said the game . keeps changing and Canadian coaches must introduce more now into their philosophies.We must leach that players should be doing more when they don't have Hip puck And. if we develop those skills in practice, players will display them in games. That’s why it's desirable to have a ratio of three practices to every game, if possible.”Ron Smith, an assistant coach with Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League, emphasized that defensive hockey should not be a negative term.■'You don't always gel rewarded for the things you do correctly without the puck.” Smith said. “So a coach must be prepared to do some rewarding himself as part of his selling job lo get the necessary commitment.”NHL referee Andy van HelJemonri suggested the coach-referee relationship would be improved if young players were encouraged to do some refereeing.Anatoli Tarasov and Yuri Korolov of the Soviet Union said Rusaiau coaches are prepared through testing, and Ihey study for four years at the Soviet Sports Institute. During the Victoria sessions Tarasov ran a practice with pee-wee players which emphasized continuous movement with the puck.Clare Drake of the University of Alberta, one of the Canadian coaches at the I960 Olympics, noted that European teams now spend much of their time working In the areas of power play, penalty killing and faceoffs.The bottom line to the clinic is that the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association, through its provincial branches, is making a concerted effort to improve coaching, stressing participation and development of skills at each particular age level.
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Lethbridge Herald
Lethbridge, Alberta, CA
Fri, Sep 10, 1982
Page 9
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