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What Is Cross Ice Hockey?
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Cross Ice hockey is a far
superior training and developmental game. The traditional ice hockey
game provides little benefit from an improvement standpoint for virtually
all children. The main reason being most 50 minute games provide
each player with approximately 15 minutes of skating time, 20 seconds of
puck control time & only one shot on net!
 No player will achieve any meaningful improvement from these games.
However, a cross ice game (the game is compressed) of 2-on-2 or 3-on-2 or
3-on-3 gives the children exponentially more “touches” of the puck, more
shots on net, more passes and because there is no stoppage of play,
significantly more skating. The children will need to condition
themselves to skate, stickhandle and shoot much quicker. It is a
form of “overspeed” training! Even more important, this “overspeed”
training is not just physical but mental! The players must think,
react, and make their decisions much quicker than in a traditional game.
The mind and body must work together to create optimal performance.
Cross ice hockey is a game of speed!
Playing in smaller areas forces the children to skate quicker, stickhandle
quicker, shoot quicker, and most importantly think and react quicker. It
conditions the children for improved speed in all aspects of the game.
The play never stops (see rules), the excitement never ends. Each
participating player will experience exponentially more touches of the
puck, more scoring opportunities, more quick changes in direction (skate
edges & weight transfer) and repetition … repetition … repetition; the key to
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