Hockey IQ Podcast
Hockey's Arsenal
September 3, 20251 hr 15 min
Hockey
Nick Smallridge
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Episode Notes
On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with soccer coach and English teacher, Nick Smallridge.
A few areas on this episode we discuss:
- How to give impact team talks between periods/halfs and after the game
- Quality questions asking... going beyond just asking open-ended questions
- Guiding attention and focus to improve coaching effectiveness
- Cueing players via intentions NOT mechanicals/technique
- Benefits of overplanning practice
- How to get transfer from practice into actual games
- Small-sided game constraints and rules
- Improving players ability to learn
- Impact of shared language and curriculum
- Maintaining reality-based practice.... Task simplification, not decomposition
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