Grassroots: The Minor Hockey Show

However you define "new," Richard and Dean discuss what coaches need to consider at the start of a new adventure and the resources they should access. Books: How we learn to move by Rob Gray The Coach's Guide to Teaching by Doug Lemov Transforming Basketball by Alex Sarama The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier Podcasts: This one, of course! The Talent Equation - Stuart Armstrong The Perception-Action Podcast - Rob Gray HEO Youtube channel - Brian Gillam (Hockey Eastern Ontario Web sites: hockeycoachingabcs.com - Tom Molloy admkids.com - USA Hockey Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Twitter: Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

Season 5 begins with an important pre-season look at how contact and checking need to be taught to take it beyond the confines of the current checking clinic module. Richard and Dean examine an approach using spectrums of skill for different ages and levels of play, built within the current four-stage checking progression espoused by Hockey Canada. Those who'd like a copy of the spectrums diagram should email Richard: Richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Twitter: Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

This episode is a unique collaboration with Stuart Armstrong whose podcast is The Talent Equation [https://www.thetalentequation.co.uk/podcasts]. His May 28, 2024, show was called "Coach Education is  broken." It struck a chord with Grassroots host Richard Bercuson who felt it reminded him of the famous Monty Python Dead Parrot sketch. He connected with Stuart and here's the result: a tripartite discussion with Stuart, Richard, and Dean Holden about coach education's demise. Stuart will simulcast the show on his own podcast soon, once he completes his multi-part analysis of the subject. Listener Advisory: Stuart's script read of the Dead Parrot sketch, portraying Michael Palin, is much better than Richard's feeble attempt with the John Cleese character. Dean plays the dead parrot. Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Twitter: Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

Modern coaching approaches include a litany of expressions, phrases, words and acronyms that are sometimes baffling in what they mean. In this episode, Richard and Dean delve into some of the more common ones and relate them to coaches need to understand about them and how to apply them in minor hockey. Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Twitter: Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com

Brian Gillam, HEO's Coaching Coordinator and Gold Medal Pathways mentor, delves into the myriad of ways in which small or reduced space practice activities are central to how children will develop both their skills and ability to play games on similar sized areas. Gillam is a longtime proponent of ecological dynamics and constraints led approaches. He explains how important it is for children and teens to be trained in space consistent with their developmental stages and what they can learn from the approach. Contact: richard(at)grassrootsminorhockey.com Twitter: Richard - @berky544 Dean Holden: funlearnreturn@gmail.com