Program Overview

WLHD HOCKEY CAMP 2022

2022  DAY CAMP

Camp Dates: June 27-July 1 (All Ages)

Price: $350

For questions please contact eislerdc@aol.com

LOCATION: Oak Park Ice Arena Stockton, CA
Time:9am-12pm

Program Description

Why Leave Hockey Development Day Camp teaches technical skill and hockey sense in the course of the week. The sessions are broken into technical skill development, progressing into small area games that task the players to concentrate on their hockey sense development. 

Program Detail

Technical skills include the fundamental skills required to play the game of hockey

• Skating
• Puck Control
• Passing and Receiving
• Shooting
• Checking/Body Contact
• Puck Protection

Why Leave Hockey also concentrates on mental development with the athletes.  This development consists of memory, perception, language, information processing, and thinking ability, as well as the cognitive: The knowledge to understand the rules of play, game terminology, team concepts, and the intellect to make a decision on the fly using cognitive knowledge.

Hockey Sense                      Game Situation                            Technical Skill
Understanding                      Offense Puck Carrier                   On Offense
Reading Play                        Offense Away Puck                      On Defense
Decision Making                   Defend Puck Carrier                   
                                              Defense Away Puck

Why Leave Hockey Development coaches simple yet complex skill development. Why Leave coaches must be able to:

• Separate the strong parts of technique from the weak parts
• Focus on the important parts of technique
• Find a way to correct technique
• Break complex skills down into simpler parts
• Put the whole technique back together

Through the repetition of simple drills during the week,  our experience, knowledge base, and approach model will develop in you greater congruency, focus, and clarity to your game.  

HOCKEY SENSE - A continuous observing of the environment of the game while playing (reading the game), thinking, and decision-making. This is shown in the player's actions on the ice.

• Understanding the game
• Reading the game
• Decision-making 

These abilities will be learned during this Day Camp