OUT of the BLUE is a blog that provides insight and related resource information into all 5 Performance Components that are required for a goalies continued development within the TSO Crease Control Training System. Maurice (MOE) Tanel is the Program Director and Goals & Performance Coach of TEAM Shutout Goalie School. For further information on this or any other questions you may have please feel free to contact him by email at maurice@teamshutout.com
He had e-mailed me his Short Term ‘Performance’ Goals that would he would be using for the week to create awareness in his training and work towards helping his game performance. Other than the fact that they needed some minor adjustment to give more definition and clarity to his goals, he was pointed in the right direction in his training awareness needs. Let me share with you this young goalie’s Performance Goals… 1. Stay clear and calm on identifying the release to better Track the puck from point of release to point of save selection. (Mental Game) 2. Maintain clear mind to read the play (Mental Game) and execute strong and controlled pushes to maintain effective positioning of centre and square on the puck (Technical Skills & Tactical Strategy). 3. Identifying rebounds that result from Blocking Strategies that are required on In-Tight plays to better recover and re-position to puck rebounds. (Mental Game and Tactical Strategy). I wanted to share this process to highlight how vision is so closely connected to a goalie’s performance. The vision required to track the puck and read the play has a strong connection to the Performance Component of the Mental Game. Technical Skills and Tactical Strategy are very important but how an athlete can deal with the distractions can affect his vision that will impact the Read-Plan-Execute cycling process of the Performance Sequence.
The mental distractions that impact concentration will affect a goalies ability to maximize vision so to develop a ‘Clear and Calm’ energy in a goalie’s Mental Game is crucial. To provide further insight on how distraction negatively affect performance, I have attached below a link to a recent Blog by Dr. Cohn…Concentration is key to excelling in sports. When kids aren’t
focused on what they need to do to perform their skills,
performance suffers. Then your athletes are unable to perform
in the “zone.”
Bottom Up-Part 5 of 5: The Shoulders, By Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com
When you think dryland training for goalies, you probably think about the hips first and then probably the spine or ‘the core’. But remember that muscles and therefore joints (because muscles cross joints) do not work independently, they work as a system. Let me illustrate this. Picture yourself skating full speed from your crease to the bench on a delayed penalty call. Your legs are driving powerfully, but what are your arms doing? They are driving as well, working in opposition to your legs, so when your right foot is forward, your left arm is forward So just the way a dysfunction in your hips can reduce your power production, a dysfunction in your shoulder can also reduce your power and/or lead to a change in your movement mechanics… For a direct link to Maria’s website and more articles, videos and products…click the logo below. If you have a question on this topic or any other any other area of conditioning, please email Maria at info@revolutioncondition.com Maria Mountain has a Masters of Science in Kinesiology and operates Revolution Condition workout studio in London, Ontario. Maria works with Elite Athletes of 14 years and older along with Olympic and Pro Sports Athletes.
Mental Performance resource information By Dr. Patrick J. Cohn, Ph.D. in Education How Parents’ Emotions Affect Sports Kids Let’s face it: The world of sports evokes lots of emotion. That’s partially why we love sports so much. But as sports parents, your emotional state affects your kids’ confidence in sports. In fact, if you can’t keep your feelings under control, your athletes might not thrive in sports…Here at Kids’ Sports Psychology, we agree with his first conclusion: That sports parents need to communicate love and empathy and focus on what kids do well. If parents focus too much on negatives, kids will, too. That can cause them to embrace negative self-talk, focus more on avoiding mistakes, and stop taking risks—all mental game no-nos! (Click to Read More)
Click HERE for Free Reports Patrick J. Cohn, Ph.D., earned his Ph.D. in Education specializing in sports psychology from the University of Virginia in 1991, and founded Peak Performance Sports in 1994. Dr. Cohn is an author, professional speaker and one of the nation’s leading mental game coaches. His coaching programs instill confidence, composure and effective mental strategies that enable athletes and teams to reach their performance goals. Dr. Cohn has helped athletes from a variety of sports backgrounds (both amateurs and professionals) identify and develop the mindset needed to achieve peak performance. Click here to visit Sports Psychology for Athletes, for more information about Dr. Cohn.
Bottom Up-Part 4 of 5: The Spine, By Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com
My guess is that when you saw the title of this installment, you immediately thought of the lower back. After all, that is probably what you feel most often – fatigue or aching in your lower back. However, I am going to spend this segment talking about the thoracic spine, which is the middle part. You see, I think much of the low back fatigue and pain you experience is related to poor functioning at the hips or the thoracic spine. Dysfunction in these two areas will lead to compensations in the lower back, often increasing the mobility and decreasing the stability of this area, which eventually leads to breakdown. This is how the thoracic spine can contribute to lumbar spine (lower back) pain and dysfunction…to see the entire post and video demonstration of exercises… For a direct link to Maria’s website and more articles, videos and products…click the logo below. If you have a question on this topic or any other any other area of conditioning, please email Maria at info@revolutioncondition.com Maria Mountain has a Masters of Science in Kinesiology and operates Revolution Condition workout studio in London, Ontario. Maria works with Elite Athletes of 14 years and older along with Olympic and Pro Sports Athletes.
Bottom Up-Part 3: The Hips, By Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com Maria Mountain’s part 3 of the 5 part Bottom Up series….
The body works as a system so even your shoulder function or dysfunction can have an impact on your ankle function, so I hesitate to zero in on one single joint and say that it is the most important joint for a given athlete…but I am going to do it anyway. If you think about the most important joint for a baseball pitcher, most of us would pick the shoulder. Naturally a pitcher can not succeed with a bum elbow or back pain, but the most vulnerable area for injury in most pitchers is the shoulder. For the hockey goalie it is the hip…to see the entire post and video demonstration of exercises… For a direct link to Maria’s website and more articles, videos and products…click the logo below. If you have a question on this topic or any other any other area of conditioning, please email Maria at info@revolutioncondition.com Maria Mountain has a Masters of Science in Kinesiology and operates Revolution Condition workout studio in London, Ontario. Maria works with Elite Athletes of 14 years and older along with Olympic and Pro Sports Athletes.
Bottom Up-Part 2: The Knee, By Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com Maria Mountain’s part 2 of the 5 part Bottom Up series….
Continuing on with our bottom up approach to dryland goalie training today we will move up to the knee. The knee is fantastic and bending and straightening (flexion and extension), that is its forte. The knee is not great at rotating or side bending. So the goal of training is not only to maximize its performance in the strong positions, but also to train the muscles that will help keep it out of its vulnerable positions… CLICK the GoalieTrainingPro.com link directly below to see the entire post and video demonstration of exercises… CLICK THIS LINK > GoalieTrainingPro.com For a direct link to Maria’s website and more articles, videos and products…click the logo below. Maria Mountain has a Masters of Science in Kinesiology and operates Revolution Condition workout studio in London, Ontario. Maria works with Elite Athletes of 14 years and older along with Olympic and Pro Sports Athletes.
Bottom Up-Part 1: The Ankle, By Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com As promised we are starting with Maria Mountain’s first of the 5 part Bottom Up series…take it away Maria.
I am not going to show you the big basic exercises, for example I will not give you squats to improve the function of your hips and knees. Although I love squats, in this series I want to get at some of the finesse stuff, some of the little things that your competitors are missing – heck they don’t even know that they should be thinking about this stuff. Today we are starting with the ankle – in a previous post, I wrote about how ankle function can contribute to shin pain in goalies, but the exercises for today are more geared toward symptom free players. I even shot a video showing you all of the exercises – CLICK the GoalieTrainingPro.com link directly below to see the entire post and video. Click this link > GoalieTrainingPro.com and go directly to Maria’s post “The Ankle” that includes complete details and video demonstration of exercises… For a direct link to Maria’s website and more articles, videos and products…click the logo below. Maria Mountain has a Masters of Science in Kinesiology and operates Revolution Condition workout studio in London, Ontario. Maria works with Elite Athletes of 14 years and older along with Olympic and Pro Sports Athletes.
In keeping with our vision to create an environment of COMMUNICATION so that goalies, parents, coaches and organizations will feel comfortable in knowing that we are a reliable resource for them and their athlete, we have joined in development partnership with conditioning expert Maria Mountain of GoalieTrainingPro.com. Maria currently runs a workout studio called Revolution Conditioning in London, Ontario but her information and insight can now be accessed by you through our website and blogs or directly at GoalieTrainingPro.com I first came across Maria’s expertise conditioning knowledge about a year ago and have been following her closely ever since. I was immediately struck by the passion she has for what she does and found that the information she provides has both reaffirmed some of my conditioning views and enlightened me in areas of conditioning of which I was never aware. As mentioned, Maria will become a source of conditioning information that will be available through our Blogs and through our website. Without getting to far ahead of myself, Maria has also offered to make available a Q & A opportunity through our website that will allow goalies, parents and coaches to ask questions by email that will be answered by Maria. This feature will become available but will require some set up on our website and you will be notified as soon as it becomes active. We will be starting the first set of Conditioning Blogs with Maria’s Bottom Up Series, which is a five part series of information and videos that will take you joint-by-joint through your body and show you some ways to test your function and to fine tune those areas. TEAM Shutout is very excited to have the opportunity to work with such experts as Maria and I know that our athletes along with their parents and coaches will benefit also. Click the GoalieTrainingPro.com icon below and save it to your favourites and have constant access to a reliable Conditioning information link
Maurice (MOE) Tanel is the Program Director and Goals & Performance Coach of TEAM Shutout Goalie School. For further information on this or any other questions you may have please feel free to contact him by email at maurice@teamshutout.com
I recently posted on the TSO Facebook page an article written about the Toronto Maple Leaf rookie goaltender, James Reimer. I felt the article would be inspirational to our students and it would provide a wonderful insight into the character and mental programming of this promising young goaltender. What intrigued me most about this article was his quote “Obstacles are just things you see when you lose sight of your goals.” You can be sure there are many questions surrounding Reimer’s anticipated performance for this season and I can assure you that no one has the definitive answer to any of those questions. But one fact is for certain, the character and mental programming that Reimer has exhibited, will provide him the tools to focus on the process and provide the greatest opportunity to reach highest performance potential. Effective mental programming of an athlete requires that they keep their thoughts, words and their mental pictures synchronized with the direction they want to go. With goals and a plan of action in place, this will provide direction and allow the athlete to focus on the training process and not the perceived obstacles along the way. You can only control the things that are within your control. With goals in place the only thing left is the price that you are prepared to pay to achieve them. “Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it & staying with that plan.” -Tom Landry Maurice (MOE) Tanel is the Program Director of TEAM Shutout Goalie School. For further information on this or any other questions you may have please feel free to contact him by email at maurice@teamshutout.com
This years High Performance Camp was huge success on all levels. This camp was an invitation to our goalies who have shown a year round high commitment level to their training. We wanted to create a training camp that pushed them within their “out of comfort” zone and challenge their determination to achieve their goals. At the end of the 4-day camp…all the participants felt our “training goal” was a huge success. In addition to the on-ice, off-ice and video review training elements the goalies also benefited from the experienced insight of two guest speakers who bring with them OHL and NHL experience in making decisions in the player selection process. The camp participants took part in an open forum seminar that provided insight and opened the opportunity to ask questions about NCAA and OHL options.
We want to thank Frank Robinson, Head Coach of the Jr. A Whitby Fury and scout of the OHL Saginaw Spirit along with Jeff Twohey (picture to left), former GM of the OHL Peterborough Petes and currently scouts for the NHL Phoenix Coyotes. Both speakers provided valuable insight along with many stories into the intangible qualities such as Mental Strength and Character that are critically important in being identified as an athlete with potential. All the athletes met each challenge that was presented to them throughout the week and they should be congratulated for their commitment and dedication to getting prepared for their season. We would like to give a special recognition to 3 of our goalies that will be attending Junior Camps this August. This will be the next challenging level and they are all ready to perform.
Bryan Raymond, 16 yrs, OHL Sudbury Wolves Riley Turner, 16 yrs, Jr. A Temiscaming Titans Avery Allen, 17 yrs, OHL Owen Sound Attack Maurice (MOE) Tanel is the Program Director of TEAM Shutout Goalie School. For further information on this or any other questions you may have please feel free to contact him by email at maurice@teamshutout.com |
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