"Darryl knows my game now. He knows what's going to work and what's not going to work. It's about fine-tuning it and always trying to improve.... It's an ongoing conversation about how to get better and how to pick up a little thing here or there to give yourself an advantage." —Patrick Kane, from his foreword An unmissable look at how even hockey's best find ways to get even better. Darryl Belfry is regarded as hockey's premier development coach, with clients including Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, John Tavares, and Auston Matthews. But his highly sought-after training methods aren't only for elite NHL stars; they have helped players of all levels uncover new pathways to performance excellence. Packed with fascinating stories and valuable insight, Belfry Hockey: Strategies to Teach the World's Best Athletes details this powerful curriculum, developed over years of persistent research. It's a system that emphasizes discovering authentic identity, pinpointing translatable skill, building a personal performance matrix, and more. Not only will players learn hundreds of techniques to improve their game, but teachers—inside and outside of hockey coaching—will gain an arsenal of groundbreaking strategies to connect with their students.
Hockey Plays and Strategies features a variety of plays, systems, and strategies for game play in the offensive, neutral, and defensive zones. Special situations such as the power play, penalty kill, and face-offs are also featured.
Featuring on and off-ice training and drills to improve reaction time and physical conditioning for this challenging position, this book and DVD package will provide you with the best instruction of techniques and mental strategies to ...
Awareness, anticipation, physical conditioning . . . these are just some of the qualities a goaltender needs to bring onto the ice at game time.
In revising the text, they drew upon the expertise of a variety of specialists, including, for example, Dr. Tom Sawa, who updated the chapter on training and conditioning, to giveThe Hockey Handbooka new relevance to modern hockey coaches.
Providing a thorough grounding in the theory behind constraints-led approaches to skill acquisition, and a foundational cornerstone in the Routledge Studies in Constraints-Based Methodologies in Sport series, this is a vital pedagogical ...
In Behind the Bench, ESPN's Craig Custance sits down for film sessions and candid conversations with some of the game's most notable modern luminaries—names like Mike Babcock, Joel Quenneville, Dan Bylsma, Todd McLellan, Ken Hitchcock, ...
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Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia. More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated.
"Money Players" is a bare-knuckles brawl of a book about the way the real game is played -- the game that goes on behind doors behind rich execs and greedy agents -- and even greedier players.
Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder "The intricacies of the characters' relationships and the trove of secrets Scotland Yard Inspector Macdonald uncovers make for riveting reading." —Booklist Bruce Attleton dazzled ...