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The purpose of this document is to assist our Foundation coaches in feeling confident to coach hockey.Â
This document has been developed with the following in mind:
This document includes:
Take a moment and think back to when you were a child playing sport. What did you enjoy about playing sport back then?
It might have been that you were playing with your friends? It could have been that you learned how to jink the ball? or maybe it was the half time oranges? Was it even about winning at the end of the match?
This guide is an excellent tool for understanding what is important when coaching youth age groups. Here at Harbour we encourage our members to be good sports people and therefore this document is a guide for the Junior Coaching philosophy we encourage of all coaches in our competitions.
Your coaching philosophy has a large impact on the enjoyment a player will have in your hockey team.
Winning is fun, but is hanging out with their friends and learning new tricks more important for a life-long relationship with the game?
Hockey NZ have designed a online coaching portal which has online coaching modules in the following areas:
Small sticks for players aged year 5-8
Small sticks for players aged year 9-12,
Youth Coaching (Secondary)
Club Coaching
The portal has been designed to assist coaches to provide relevant development environments and hockey learnings to developing players participating in school, club, association and regional competitions.
Best of all it is FREE, you receive a HNZ Coaching accreditation at the end of each area.
If you are short on some drills, or run out of ideas, check out Sportplan. Your online coaching booklet. Complete with diagrams, explanations and print outs! There is a free version and various plan options. For around $100 NZ a year you get almost unlimited access to the below. The free version still gives you great support.
Even Better, they now have an app that is fantastic! You can take your drills with you everywhere on your phone.
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Hockey New Zealand is also pleased to announce the launch of two free interactive online coaching modules. These modules can be accessed from the Hockey NZ website and each takes about 30 minutes to complete. The two modules, which were developed by SPARC, are targeted at first time coaches.
These online resources, whilst generic are really timely reminders of what we should be thinking about when we are coaching to make sure we acheive our desired outcomes with our teams.
