Velocity Camps

2008 Summer Camps

Session I: (All Mites)

The One Week Session (limited to 14 Skaters per Session)

Students will skate for 1 hour and fifteen minutes a day for 5 consecutive days. In this session the main focus will be to work on the basic fundamentals of skating and to develop the proper skating stride with good all around technique. In addition, students will work on stick-handling and puck control.

Players will be learning the following techniques in this session: • Inside/Outside Edges • Explosive Starts and Sudden Starts • Backwards Skating • Forward/Backward Crossovers • Power Stride length • Balance and Control • Skating With Pucks

Session II: 8/9/10 year olds

Students will skate for 1 hour a week plus 1 hour of dryland training for 8 weeks. Skaters will go through the intense off ice program that will include skating on our NEW Acceleration Skating Treadmill. Students will go directly from the on ice session to the dryland training area for there off ice program.

In this accelerated Velocity session, students will also continue to work on the basic Fundamentals of skating but at a much more rapid and intense pace. In addition, students will be learning the following advanced skating techniques in this session.

• Over-Speed Training
• Explosive Starts and Acceleration
• Quick Forward and Backward Transitions
• Accelerating through Tight Turns
• Powerful Crossovers
• Lateral Mobility
• Skating with the puck at a high tempo

Session III: (Boys: Squirts thru High School) (Girls U10’s thru High School)

ON ICE INSTRUCTION:

Students will skate for 1 hour twice a week for 8 weeks plus 3 on 3 Hockey on Friday’s. The On-Ice sessions will focus on the following with and without the puck:

• Over-Speed Training
• Multi-Directional Movement Skills
• First Step Quickness
• Lateral Mobility
• Powerful Strides
• Forward and Backward Transitions
• Stick-Handling in tight areas
• Shooting the puck at a high tempo
• Small Area Games

** Students will play five (5) 3 on 3 hockey games on Friday’s during the 8 week session**.

STRENGTH & CONDITIONING INSTRUCTION:

The highly intensive Strength and Conditioning Program is designed to help increase the players skating performance.

The players will be put through a variety of dryland methods that will help build the adequate muscles needed to perform the on ice drills. Students will also be training on the NEW! Acceleration MN Skating Treadmill in the Velocity Hockey Center. Each student will get 2 sessions of instructional skating treadmill twice a week. The continual practice of the skating motions on the Skating Treadmill will help build “Muscle Memory” to therefore adequately perform the motions on the ice at a much higher and powerful tempo. For the 8 week session the players will be participating in the Strength and Conditioning Program twice a week for one hour.

** Students will do the On and Off Ice Training Program on the same days. They will go through there on ice instruction first then go directly to the dryland area. Groups will run Mondays & Wednesdays or Tuesdays & Thursdays.

If you have any questions regarding any camps please contact Noel Rahn at noelrahn@velocityhockeycenter.com or 952.938.6267

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