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105 - The Importance of Body Control
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This week we tackle the importance of being able to control your body and segment it so different parts of your body are doing different things simultaneously. This greatly helps with being more efficient in the net and having better performance.
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Introduction to the DIY Goalie Podcast
00:00:06
Speaker
Welcome to the DIY Goalie Podcast, where hosts and goalie coaches Nathan Park and Connor Munday share their insights on how to become a better goalie.
00:00:18
Speaker
Goalies, how are we doing today? Welcome back to another episode of the DIY Goalie Podcast. As always, with your hosts, Nathan Park and Connor Monday. um We are here. It's a nice Saturday morning. The the snow is starting to melt. up It's starting to get nice out. it's So...
00:00:37
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kind of officially in that mode that's like post you know hockey season. And yet here we are still doing a bunch of spring skates and all of that stuff. You know, hasn't really died down yet a little bit, but still rocking, rocking some busy stuff through through the nice weather here. But how are we doing today, Connor?
00:01:00
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i'm I'm good. i don't i don't know what you're talking about. i haven't touched ice, synthetic ice or anything. i haven't done anything hockey-wise in the last three weeks, I guess, since since provincials.
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um Yeah, otherwise, things are kind of quiet on my
Updates and Team Offers
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end. We've been doing a lot of backdoor, back-end stuff with ah with the new booking program that should have went live on our website by now, if not already. um And then, yeah, i got I got tasked with some work because Nathan doesn't want to do his job. ah No, i got i got tasked with some stuff here that I haven't had a chance to start on yet, but I'll hopefully get a chance to do that later today.
00:01:36
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um But yeah, otherwise, just hanging out over here. I'm kind of dealing with some with some team offers already for the upcoming year, so I got deal with that. And yeah, otherwise, we're we're all we're all good we're all good over here.
00:01:52
Speaker
It is my job to delegate everything to everybody else. That's that's what the boss does. it's It's so funny. I give you so much, so much flack for like taking stuff on and then I get mad when you give me stuff. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:08
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Connor just, just likes to complain regardless of what side of the fence it is on. Yeah.
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Yeah, no, i I'm not 100 percent sure if by the time this airs that we will have the booking system on the website. It is live. I just have a few more things to set up before I put it on the website. But yes, we are very close to the new booking system. um And when we go from there, just to let you guys know, too, um We will be expanding off of that system to include some content for you guys. We are also going to be leaning into the virtual sessions through the new book booking platform.
00:02:58
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and So that's something that you guys can keep an eye out at truenorthgoaltending.com. The new website too is very close to being done and transferred over. So we'll have a very nice, slick new look in not very long.
True North Goaltending's New Booking System
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um and some exciting things going on there, too. Now, with this new system, if you guys are part of our email list, you will be getting an email that will kind of require you to, I guess, sign up for the new system because that is where we're going to be doing our our notifications and like email list stuff from as well.
00:03:35
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And then that'll also allow you guys to book any of the virtual services you want or if of course you're in in the area um you guys can book in person with us too but the the platform will once we kind of get it set up and ready to go will also feature some content stuff as well so it's not just going to be for the in-person booking stuff So there's lots of cool things that's on the go for you guys that we're kind of building on the back end. It will take a little while for us to get the content side of things to a point that it's like, you know, got a lot of options for you guys and and is really nice to look through. But we will keep working on that. We're going to add.
00:04:18
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videos that we already have. And then Connor and I have kind of tasked ourselves to build some more content over this off season. We'll see how that goes and how much we're able to meet up and get that done. But, uh,
00:04:33
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Yeah, there's a lot of cool things that we're getting done and trying to kind of give you guys some more options for for getting better at being goalies. So stay tuned for that. We will keep pushing out updates on our socials as well as on our email list. For right now, you guys can still head to ChewNorthGoaltending.com and go all the way down to the bottom where there's a spot to sign up for the email list. We do send out a monthly kind of exclusive newsletter article, I guess, as well as a ah fresh practice plan for goalies every every month as well. So lots of things happen in there. Go check it out. And we'd love to have you on board with us.
00:05:17
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And speaking of practice plans and drills, because we haven't done one yet for the month of April. Look at that segue. Hey, Connor is going to lead us right into what we have for the drill of the month this month on the podcast.
00:05:32
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What a segue. Hey. What a
'Follow the Rebound' Drill Explained
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segue. That was Darren Millard level segue stuff. I love that. ah Yes, Drill of the Week presented by True North Gold Tending. um This one's going to be ah a good one for this week, especially for those that maybe are doing...
00:05:53
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semi-office or semi-on-ice, rather regular um training, you know, for you just for the offseason. If over anything, I think this is going to be one that goalies should be focusing on. um Especially this this past year, like I don't know, like even like some of the goaltenders that we trained in some of the games that I've been at or i had a chance to watch the rebound control was just a little subpar this year. So that is what that we're going talking about today. This is the follow the rebound goalie drilling. And you can find this over on our drill section on our on the True North goaltending website. This is as follows.
00:06:32
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There are three shooters set up with pucks and different colored pylons. One in the slot, two at the top of each circle. The goaltender will get start ah will get set on the middle shooter. Shot can go anywhere.
00:06:44
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um If there's a rebound, and the goalie has to recover and get set on it. Coach will then yell out one of the three colors or shooters numbered one through three as well. And the goalie must push to the shooter corresponding to the proper color.
00:06:57
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shot is taken anywhere goalie must follow any rebound so they can get set to it and the process repeats key points for this one is making sure that we're getting good tracking both in and out of of our save execution save execution does uh carry over into the following rebound uh proper rotations before pushing proper decision on recovering to rebound whether it's pushing to our feet on further away um rebounds or pushing down on our knees for for closer ones and making sure that we get our feet set early at the end of each push.
00:07:30
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This is a good one because it gets, ah you know, the eyes going, gets the body going, you know, especially for rebounds in general. Because again, like I said, like rebounds that I've seen this year, rebound control this year was a little ah was a little suboptimal. And so just, you know, really, really good on tracking puck in our body, out of our body, and then getting set to our next position, proper rotations. You know, and you're you able to make it like a game like scenario as well here. know, imagine a pass as well where it's going to one of those three, um excuse me, extra shooters. And yeah, just have some fun with it as well. Definitely one that I think goalies should be working on in their offseason training to get better at their rebound controls because yeah it's it's subconsciously well as well. You get you get better on your tracking, you get better on your edge work and just kind of pick up a little bit of game speed as well.
00:08:20
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Yeah, the big one on on that drill um is it's really designed to get you guys to work on your post-save recovery and then kind of working off of that recovery back into a situation for a shot. Like you made your save, if rebound gets picked up and it's like ah a pass across. Like that's kind of the game situation that you're looking to to mimic there. So the big thing you guys should be focusing on is not only your placement of pucks with that rebound control, but how you then carry that save through into your recovery afterwards for, you know, a good solid rotation before we make our push and driving up to our feet.
00:09:05
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And that's one note. I think pretty much every goalie listening to this is well enough at moving around on their knees, challenge yourselves to recover to your feet with a good solid T push recovery, not with an inside edge push and a pop up to our feet.
00:09:24
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Get that whole push on your feet. I think that's something that a lot of goalies don't do enough of is work on moving around on their feet, because first thing anything any goalie does, as soon as they hit the ice for the first time, they start sliding around and So right from day one, you guys are all good at sliding around on your knees.
00:09:44
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Get used to your feet, getting up to your feet. But yeah, other than that, that's kind of all I have to emphasize on that one. it is a good drill for processing for post save x post save recoveries save execution and rebound control so that'll be uh we'll put the link to that drill in the show notes that's that'll be on our website i think connor else put the graphic up if you're watching on youtube but uh yeah that's where you can find that i do also
00:10:17
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In the off season, it is on my list to update our drill page um to have more of our drills because we have a lot of drills internally that aren't on our website. like And I know the website's a little lacking. That's something I got to stay a little bit more on top of. but The other cool thing with the new website that we'll be launching soon is it'll be much easier to navigate. like There'll be more filters and tags and stuff on the drills that you guys will be able to work through based off of what you're looking to accomplish.
00:10:50
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um It'll have like age, skill level, you know certain situational stuff, as well as our categories. So it'll be a lot more robust for you guys to be able to look through and find things that you want to get done for your your sessions. So um but yeah, I guess from there, just um kind of somewhat builds into what we're talking about today. um I know me personally and Connor as well, we're not exactly the most
00:11:24
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ah expert, I guess, ah people for this. But, um you know, we wanted to kind of touch on something that I believe is not really talked about as much as it should be in the goalie community.
Body Mechanics in Goaltending
00:11:40
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And that's like our body mechanics, our body control.
00:11:45
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um So somebody like Jamie Phillips, he's probably, you know, one of the best ah balanced experts in the in in this position to be able to talk about biomechanics as well as goalie coaching since he's got his, you know, PhD in physiotherapy or whatever. But yeah.
00:12:05
Speaker
We we are going to touch on a few at least basic level things and get you guys thinking about it. But there's not enough emphasis, in my opinion, to goalies on being able to work within their body and kind of be able to control their body as much like if you think about goaltending, the ability to control and the ability how we move and the ability to you know, kind of segment our body, like move certain parts of our body while other parts are moving differently or not moving at all. Kind of that segmentation of parts of our body and being able to control them.
00:12:49
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That is something that translates very well to um solid performance on the ice. Right. So if you think about how we make our saves, if we even just take the save um and we break that down when we're tracking the puck.
00:13:09
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we emphasize so much on the head trajectory part of it, right? The head coming down into your save, coming forward in front of our body while we track that puck into our body.
00:13:21
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And the reason for that is because the rest of your body follows your head. If you track down into your save, your body is naturally going to shift that way, shift that direction into that save.
00:13:36
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And so being able to, you know, lead with that head, lead with that body that keeps your weight forward, that helps you cut down the angle on the puck and have more net coverage. And those subtle little things that you can do to control your body can make a very big difference because for goalies, a split second can be a significant difference between a save and a goal. Right. So the more efficiently we can move and the more we can control how we move, um that really translates well into into how we perform. um
00:14:16
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I guess before I kind of dive a little further in, did you have anything you wanted to add at all, Connor? i had to step away for for a couple of minutes or so. I think I get kind of the general idea, but i i i'll let you i'll let you I'll let you keep going here.
00:14:31
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Yeah. So when we talk about like goaltending, um, skating is always such an emphasis like we hear the cliche all the time goalies need to be the best skaters on the team and whatever blah blah blah while i agree with that to an extent the the movement that goalies do are like it's so much different than what players do um so that's kind of a whole discussion in itself i know we've kind of touched on that a little bit before but um when it comes to how we skate like
00:15:04
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If you look at the elite, elite level skaters, their ability to transition their body in a split second, like on a dime, their ability to be able to manage the angle that they move on in their crease, um their ability to kind of get their body in the right position, their ability to transfer their weight, all that stuff compounds together into a smooth skater and efficient skater, one that is able to get to their spots early and be set. And so like, if you watch guys who are really good on their edges, like a lot of the Russian goalies, you know, Vasilevsky, Bobrovsky, Shosturkin, you look at guys like Saros, the ones who are really good at manipulating their edges,
00:15:57
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watch how they move their body. If you get a chance to really hone in and kind of zoom in on them moving around, watch how their body moves, right? Like each movement is deliberate and helps accomplish the goal. Like my, what I like to tell my goalies is if a movement doesn't um like, if the way we're moving our body doesn't translate to us making a save,
00:16:23
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or to us getting into position to make a save, we need to eliminate it. Right. So if you think about a goalie that like swings their arms before they make a push across, that swing is taking their hands away. They're pulling to the other side from where they're going. So it's not helping them get into the lane. Right.
00:16:44
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um So watch those high end guys and look at how they're making those movements and what their body's doing. They lead with the head.
00:16:56
Speaker
The body follows that head. Their hands are out in front. They're able to grab their edges in a way that they're a little bit more over top of their blades so they get a good contact point to the ice. They're able to load their leg, bend their knees and and get some power from there. They can also kind of work those edges a little bit to control their body.
00:17:20
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and kind of get them into the right position before they make their push. um And that sort of level of control and that sort of level of being able to um you know work your body to your advantage and kind of have everything working together to accomplish that end goal.
Post-Save Recovery Mechanics
00:17:43
Speaker
That's really kind of what helps to set set apart like the elite level goalies and the I guess, quote unquote, good goalies like those ones that are almost there, but just not quite.
00:17:55
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um And the same thing goes when you look at like saves and stuff like we talked about earlier, right? The the head control, the hands out in front, the body shifts, all of that stuff.
00:18:06
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um that sort of stuff is what's what's able to to help goalies hit that high level of performance.
00:18:17
Speaker
Yeah, um the biggest example that i I love to give, and this is where just goaltending really excite me sometimes, is the the the body mechanics, particularly in a post-save recovery situation, right? Where you've already made your save and and you're tracking your head to that next position. And wherever your head goes, your body has to follow, right? So if I'm pulling myself one way, the rest of my body, and my upper body, my lower body has to follow through.
00:18:46
Speaker
right So whether that's, you know, I'm rotating my head and I got to rotate my body, I got to load the legs in tight to get that explosive push across. that's That's essentially is what is what we're driving at here. The body is doing kind of bunch of different things. bunch of different muscles are being used.
00:19:04
Speaker
But it all leads to the same goal at the end of the day. And so that that is the biggest example that that I use specifically you know when it comes to post-save recovery afterwards and and how to get our goalies, at least the goalies that I work with, to get their post-save recovery in ah in in an optimal position. um you know, like even something as simple as, you know, like again, like with post-save recovery where we're rotating our head, our body all all already has to follow through and that is what's going to get us on angle. And I don't think goaltenders really think about that enough sometimes. It's like, they're like, oh, I just got to get on angle. I got to get in position to, you know, to the next shot. We'll say, well, how do you, how do you do that? And how you do that is you actually have to move your head and you have to force you know, the everything in your body to,
00:19:52
Speaker
you know, move to the position that that now you want to. Yeah. And that kind of works on, you know, like. When we talk about parts of our body working together, like they're they're all doing different things, but they're working together. And if you can kind of almost isolate or segment parts of your your body, right.
00:20:16
Speaker
Like one thing that I explained to my goalies is is you know, we're we're almost moving in two parts, like our lower body's job is to move and our upper body's job is to get into the lane. So when we talk about going back to the previous example of swinging the hands like a lot of goalies pull like to the backside, swing their hands back to try and now swing into their push and gain that momentum.
00:20:47
Speaker
That initial movement, though, pulls you away from where you want to go. That adds time. And I know like a lot of the younger goalies, they do it because they're not quite there yet on the strength.
00:21:00
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But if they work on that proper technique, the strength isn't quite as important. Right. um So that's why I kind of say like that lower body, that lower half is the one responsible for making your pushes, for loading your weight, for, um you know, getting like gliding through if it's a T push or whatever the case is in your upper body's job.
00:21:24
Speaker
is to make that initial rotation to get set up to get into the lane. We're leading with that upper body through that push so that when we get to that end push position, we are set, we are in position. So on angle, like you talked about, we're square.
00:21:41
Speaker
um all of that stuff. That's kind of more so what the upper body's job is. Well, the lower body is there to load your weight, to gain that power, to make that glide over, that shuffle over, whatever that case is. And it's the same with the save execution too, right?
00:21:58
Speaker
How many goalies do we know of that slide into their saves? Your lower body's job isn't to get into the lane. It's to move. So what you want to do is you just want to drop straight down. Assuming that we're on angle, you don't need the lateral movement into your save unless it's a shot tip or a very like exclusive situation.
00:22:19
Speaker
Most of the time, it's your upper body that's shifting into that. Say your upper body is leaning, your hands are getting into that lane or your hands are moving your stick into that lane, whatever the case is.
00:22:32
Speaker
So the more that we can think of our body is, i guess, almost like a machine, right? Like how do all the parts come together to be able to make the desired outcome? Right. They're all doing different things.
00:22:46
Speaker
And they're all, you know, basically they have different parts and roles in in the overall picture. But if they do their specific role properly and everything is doing their specific role properly, you're going to have that desired outcome. Right. And sometimes with parts of your body, that honestly might mean doing absolutely nothing.
00:23:11
Speaker
Right. Like a lot of times we do too much as goalies. And so there's things flying everywhere, like for a glove save, you know, the glove is coming into that save. But then the blocker is like way back here, kind of stretched out way to that blocker side. And what that's doing is that's actually pulling your body away, making it harder to make that glove save. Right.
Off-Ice Training for Body Control
00:23:33
Speaker
And so I think like the biggest takeaway, I guess, that I have from this conversation and why I wanted to bring it up today was because I don't think that there's enough conversation around it for goalies. And I think even just athletes in general. Right.
00:23:51
Speaker
um And I also don't think that goalies are thinking enough about it. Right. like the more that you can, whether it's on ice or off ice, the more you can work on that skill of being able to control your body to as kind of specific of a part as you can. So like even to the point of if you can fully control like what your pinky is doing. You know, like if you're doing stuff like off the ice and you can kind of do weird exercises like that, I'm sure they're out there. I'm sure body control exercises are out there.
00:24:29
Speaker
ah um And I know it sounds weird, but the better the ability that you have to isolate parts of your body to a very specific part, and the more that you can actively control that,
00:24:45
Speaker
And then if you take that one step further and you have the skill of being to being able to actively control multiple parts at once, that's kind of what we're going for. Because the way I see it is we're basically stacking on top of each other. Right. so whatever your foot is doing, your knee kind of stacks over top of that, your hip stacks over top of that, right? Your core and your shoulder, your hands, your head, right? it's It's all kind of how do we stack what each part of our body is doing on top of each other to work together and get what we need to get done. It's the same thing with Connor's example of post-save recovery, right?
00:25:28
Speaker
You make your save so your head and your body shift. That's one thing. And then you stack together the lean of the hand or I guess the the extension of the arm and the hand. And then you stack together on top of that, the look and the rotate into your post save recovery. And you stack that with your leg lift and your push across, yada, yada, yada. You guys get the picture, right?
00:25:53
Speaker
um So that's kind of how we want to think about things like how can we specify what everything is doing and make it all kind of come together into one, you know, one nice smooth motion.
00:26:11
Speaker
My daughter, for for those men that are maybe listening on the audio side of things, my daughter has decided to join the conversation. And so she has been actively trying to destroy my destroy my setup here for the last 20 minutes. Actually, last 10 minutes, rather. um yeah Yeah, I think just like another you know good example to think about is baseball, right? like there's There's a lot of different biomechanics in baseball, whether it's pitching or batting or fielding.
00:26:40
Speaker
You know, they all... go hand in hand in some way, shape or form, you know, especially, you know, like the the you know, the the batting aspect of it, you know, where rotating the body, really emphasizing moving the hips so they're able to get that power for that contact off the bat to try and go yard, essentially. um Same thing with pitching, you know, as well, too. It's that same that same type of deal, that same type of mentality. um And so I think just, you know, I like to correlate a lot of things to baseball, but that's that's that's another way of looking at it as well.
00:27:19
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. And that's some like I've been really trying to kind of think of a different approach for working on edge work and skating as opposed to just kind of going through the motions of skating drills like.
00:27:35
Speaker
I've been trying to think of okay, how can we really break this down to really try and make goalies move more efficiently aside from just, you know, just continuous practice.
00:27:48
Speaker
And part of me is like, oh, I should just go back to school for a kinesiology degree something. But no, I'm not doing that. We've got to get Skyler on here. That's all we've got to do. We've got to get Coach Skyler on here.
00:28:01
Speaker
Yeah, well, and that's um that's the thing is it's not overly realistic, but I do think there is a basic level of knowledge that we can all kind of get.
00:28:14
Speaker
And that would be super beneficial um for us to kind of understand how the body moves and how we can make it more efficient um and how we can kind of gain that control. so If you guys do have some sort of off season training program, I would suggest looking into how you can maybe work on some of that stuff and how you can try and do a better job of, you know, segmenting how you control your body and work on being able to fire like very specific muscle groups at a time. And then kind of work from there and start trying to be able to fire multiple specific muscle groups to do different things at a time. But things that are that like have some synergy and work together really well. And then you can also translate that to when you get on the ice and kind of start thinking about how can I stack these things together to all work together and to kind of make myself a little bit more of an efficient goalie.
00:29:16
Speaker
yeah um yeah we'll have to get jamie back on here reach out to skylar or you know see we can get little more insight expertise on it um but yeah i think uh i think that's probably a good way to probably probably some definitely more to look into for sure um as do you know brian shackle i do not No, okay. He's a power skating coach around the Edmonton area.
00:29:48
Speaker
And he actually did his thesis in school because he went for kinesiology and he did it literally on the on the hockey stride. And that was like his his thesis. And he might be another good one to have on and he might have a ah little bit of insight on the goalie side. But I think even just the general body mechanics side of things might be good. But yeah, I i do think that might be a a good guest, um guess I guess, category to have on down the road.
00:30:18
Speaker
we have yeah we have We have some names lined up in terms of guests. We just actually actually actually have to reach out to them and schedule times and whatnot. um as As I'm sitting here with daughter in hand and was thinking about like if there was anything that I wanted to talk about today, um the one that i had kind of come up to mind, and we probably have touched on it again before in previous podcasts, but yeah i like rehashing old ideas, um is you know off-season training.
00:30:46
Speaker
You know, what are what what are what are goalies working on What should you be working on this offseason? We've touched on it already, you know, with the with the drill of the month and the rebound control. um I definitely don't think that there's really any harm in skating.
00:31:00
Speaker
You know, and you can never do enough of it, never do too much of it, rather. um You know, whether that's whether you have dedicated ice times or whether you you go to stick and puck or whatever, whatever that may look like, or maybe just even a public skate, we're able to find a you know section of ice and work on a couple of a couple of skating patterns. If you are fortunate, you know, to you know have a dedicated or to have some to have some dedicated training, you know, whether with it's with with us at the True North Goaltending Synthetic Ice Facility, shameless plug, um and, you know, be able to work work on some shots, work on, you know, puck tracking or whatever else.
00:31:37
Speaker
um But there's a bunch of off-ice workouts as well, a bunch of off-ice training that you can do as well, you know, so explosive jumps, um ball drills, you know, even or even just something as simple as, you know, if you set up,
00:31:50
Speaker
different cones or whatever and you're able to work on your positioning and your angles as i'm thinking about it live on live on air um if you you know you work out or you do something in the driveway where you have the the street hockey net and you have maybe five cones in all and you draw lines from the cone with chalk to the to the to the middle uh back pole in the net you know, and really try to you know, work on some visualization that way of, you know, the different angles, you know, where you need to be in your metaphoric crease and then seeing those angles or those lines try and pass through the middle of your body um into the net there.
00:32:33
Speaker
Some, just a couple of things that I'm thinking of of ah of offhand there, but really, you know, for those that are, you know, maybe taking a couple couple weeks off from hockey or just maybe training in general,
00:32:45
Speaker
And then when you kind of get back to it, really think about, you know, what you guys want to be working on this offseason. What was something that you really struggled with? What was something you did really well at? And try to really hammer those points home. And even if it's just something as simple as the basics.
00:33:00
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Yeah. Yeah. and that's... some You can get creative about it, too. Like, I know there's a lot of people out there that might not have access to ice, probably like there's lots of places that probably already don't have ice and they won't until August, September.
00:33:17
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um And If that is the case, there's still lots of stuff you guys can do.
Visual Training Course Announcement
00:33:24
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um so like Connor mentioned, even something like yeah angle work in your driveway or whatever the case is, that's a good one.
00:33:32
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The like we talked about before the the body control work and obviously your regular just kind of strength and flexibility training.
00:33:43
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um But the other thing, too, that can really make a big difference, and we talk about it lots, I'm probably sick of hearing it, but it's the the processing, the cognitive training, the visual training, right? like And I actually, um Dr. Kamis, we had him on the pod probably like a year ago now, or maybe even more than that. It's been a while. Less than. It was less than.
00:34:08
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Is it less than a year? OK, I can't even keep track anymore. It's all a blur. And but he actually um we are going to be releasing this soon, but he's been partnering with some goalie coaching companies, us included. He's got a um visual work like course, like an online course. And what he actually does to is he mails out like a a visual kit, like it has all the props and stuff that you need to do the exercises in the course and all that. And I think
00:34:44
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you get nine months of access to it or something like that. um But so it's it's something that's a little bit more tangible than the online stuff like the sensorina and the visual edge and whatnot. um It's a little bit more physical, so it kind of helps work on that stuff a little bit more. And obviously he's you know the trained optometrist with lots of sports vision experience. you know He works with They're giant of Pat's, the London Knights, the Edmonton Oil Kings. And he's been working with a couple of HL goalies and stuff like that, college goalies. So he knows his stuff.
00:35:21
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um I don't know if we'll have that live. If I'll see if I can get something set up before this airs. If I do, I'll put it in the show notes. If not, then just keep track on our socials and our email list for kind of an announcement on that, because that is something that is coming.
00:35:40
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um But That's a big one to be be working on. um But the other thing, too, is kind of less on the physical side, but more on the mental side, like any sort of, you know, work that you can be doing on some of that pregame routine stuff and trying to figure out what works best for you on that. working on and practicing some breath work routines, some reset routines, and then just in general to kind of planning your both off season right now, since we're kind of at the start of the off season, but making plans a little bit for your season next year. Right.
00:36:18
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So being able to kind of outline, OK, I want to be doing This workout on Tuesdays, this workout Wednesdays, Thursdays, a rest day. I'm doing this Friday, Saturday, and then Sunday maybe is more.
00:36:33
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just cognitive work or something like that, right? Outlining your kind of approach to the off season and make goals for yourself. Say, I want to get better at this. I want to get better at this and blah, blah, blah. And same for the season next year.
00:36:46
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um You know, maybe you have a goal of you want to play whatever you 17, triple A or you 15, triple A or double A or tier one or whatever your case is.
00:36:57
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um Now is the time to kind of start really planning and outlining how you're going to approach that. so that you can kind of start working towards hitting those goals, whatever they're going to be for you.
00:37:11
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think Emerson has something to say.
00:37:16
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no she goes on scratch the microphone ah She's super experienced in this. Yeah. She, she already knows what she wants to work on for next season. Yeah. Work on sleeping more and screaming louder. Yeah, exactly.
00:37:32
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There, there, there are a few goalies like that already. Yeah. Yeah,
Avoiding Harmful Training Trends
00:37:37
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I don't know. I think just, you know, really just take some time, you know, really just emphasize what you want to be focusing on the offseason. Again, you guys can reach out to us goalies at true north goaltending.com if you have any questions or anything or just kind of want to shoot some ideas.
00:37:51
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um Even then, um you know, journaling is obviously a big one. as well, you know, keeping track of, you know, meal prep and just kind of things that you're working on or working through throughout the day. um You know, just keeping that just keeping that log right of of of your of your progress is will be will be really huge for you guys as well.
00:38:14
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Yeah. And then the last thing I'll just say on on this is um just be wary of any like trends because like there always kind of seems to be like you know these fancy trends and whatnot um that kind of make their way through and a lot of times they're kind of just for show or just kind of fluff right like i don't know we see lots with kind of more the off-ice stuff like I don't know, do you see all these content creators posting like goalies doing like off-ice workouts, simulating an RVH position and yeah all these weird things that kind of happen, right? So just be careful of some of that stuff. like To be honest, in in my opinion, and I know I'm not necessarily like a fitness expert or or anything like that, but in my opinion,
00:39:14
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There are certain things you can kind of recreate off the ice, but we already put ourselves in kind of some weird situations and some weird positions on the ice.
00:39:27
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We don't need to recreate those exact weird positions off the ice and add weight to it because that can really put some damage to our joints and stuff. So more so what you want to focus on is strength in range of motion.
00:39:43
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So being able to like, you know, like the classic one the warm up where you like step and then you kind of put your leg like lift your leg up and swing it to the side a little bit, like opening up those hips.
00:39:57
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You know, doing stuff like that, but being able to hold that position open and develop some of that strength in that end range of motion, that's much more beneficial than trying to, you know, deadlift from a butterfly or whatever weird things that are going on out there. Right. like save the off ice for more off ice stuff and actually developing strength and flexibility and less so about, Oh, let's recreate, you know, lifting weights in the butterfly in the RBH or whatever the case is. So that's just a caution on that. um I'm sure there are a lot of things out there that are good and that have merit, but I also know there's a lot of things out there that you really have to be careful of because it's either not going to help at all or, worse, it might get you injured or or build bad habits or whatever. So some of the things that do translate well is the processing. So if you can add you know colors, directions, numbers, shapes, whatever the case is to your workouts, and you have to add some randomness and some processing elements,
00:41:07
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that translates well. The other thing is explosiveness. So if you can get like, you know, jump squats or box jumps, stuff like that, like that sort of stuff is kind of more what you're looking for. But again, we're not looking to recreate it in, you know, positions that we would be on the ice. Right. So um but I think that's all I have on it. I don't know if you have anything else to add.
00:41:33
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No, I'm i I'm good on my side. All right. Well, thanks guys for listening and I'll let Connor take us home. Oh, you were, you were, you were already on a roll here. I thought you were just going to take it away. um Yeah. So yeah. Thank you so much everybody for listening again. I'm sorry that I wasn't here in the, on the two year anniversary episode, but just a quick shout out to everybody who's stuck with us for the last couple of years and listen, I listening, listening to Nathan and I ramble about bunch of nonsense. I really do appreciate it.
00:42:04
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00:42:20
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00:43:15
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00:44:00
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00:44:18
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And with that being said, this has been another edition of the DIY goalie podcast presented by true North goaltending on behalf of myself, Emerson Monday and Nathan Park. We'll see you guys next one. Make some saves. Take care.