Detroit’s coaching DNA spread across NHL
Posted by Dean Holden at May
By Cam Cole, 20 May 2013 DETROIT — The 2014 Canadian Olympic team’s head coaching job is Mike Babcock’s to turn down, and that’s as it should be. You can even argue that the entire staff — other than Jacques Lemaire, who’s retired — has earned a right to return based on the Vancouver Olympic [...]
Category: art of coaching, communication, interview, leadership
Former Dino Kearns finally realizes NHL playoff dream . . . at age 32
Posted by Dean Holden at May
San Jose Sharks forward never once thought of giving up on his goal to make the big league by George Johnson, Calgary Herald May 20, 2013 Former U of C Dinos captain Bracken Kearns (#38) lays the body on Los Angeles’ Colin Fraser during Game 2 of their NHL Western Conference semifinal. At age 32, [...]
Category: interview
Learning styles are appealing but misleading
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Louise Rasmussen, 20 March 2013 Learning styles has become a popular term to use when we talk about the idea that people have different ways of learning. The concept of learning styles has a lot of personal and political appeal. It comes in handy when we want to explain why we didn’t learn much [...]
Category: art of coaching, communication, leadership, learning, research, teaching
A public service message to youth sports parents
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Dan Rodricks, 15 May 2013 The good news is that, in seven years of umpiring amateur baseball games in the Baltimore area, Frank Handley has had to give the thumb to only five adults. The bad news is he had to do it again a couple of weeks ago. But we’re going to turn [...]
Category: deportment, leadership, officiating, opinion, parents
Youth sports 101: Top 9 tips for moms and dads
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Frank Smoll and Ronald E. Smith, 26 April 2013 Most mothers and fathers are productive contributors to their children’s well-being in sports. Unfortunately, however, the negative effects of a small minority of parents are all too obvious. The good news is that incidents of parental misbehavior are not the norm! In fact the majority [...]
Category: deportment, opinion, parents, philosophy
I bowed to pressure and promise and let my son play spring hockey
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Rob Klovance, 20 September 2012 As I write this my son is running around as part of a summer’s-end pickup soccer game at a local park. It’s beautiful, unstructured fun that has been a staple of a summer spent with a variety of friends in locations ranging from Vancouver to the Columbia River Gorge [...]
Category: opinion, parents, philosophy
Summer training for nine year olds – Repost
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Michael Boyle, 16 July 2012 I originally posted this last spring but wanted to re-post it as we move into the summer. With the new Facebook and Twitter feeds I think it will get a lot more views. Q- I need to put together a summer plan for my 9 yr old hockey team. [...]
Confessions of a hockey dad: Spring hockey
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Rick Klovance, 17 April 2012 “If sport has a high point of the year, it must be the first week of spring. When I was growing up, I used to love this time of year. It was when I put my hockey equipment away and I was absolutely ecstatic to see the end of [...]
Category: opinion, parents, philosophy
Benefits of early development of eye-hand coordination: Evidence from the LOOK longitudinal study
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by Telford RD, Cunningham RB, Telford RM, Olive LS, Byrne DG, Abhayaratna WP. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2013 Apr 25 Source Medical School, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; Academic Unit of Internal Medicine, Canberra Hospital, Canberra, ACT, Australia. Abstract We investigated longitudinal and cross-sectional relationships between eye-hand [...]
Category: fundamental movement skills, research, Skills
Brent Sutter: True athletes make the best hockey players
Posted by Dean Holden at May
by AFL Team, 15 March 2013 As the idea of physical literacy gains momentum, it’s not usually the traditionalists in sport and physical activity who lead the charge. But Brent Sutter – one of hockey’s most established “old guard” members – is changing that perception. In a recent Edmonton Journal article, Sutter said that kids [...]
Category: Canadian Sport 4 Life, fundamental movement skills, interview, LTAD, opinion, play, practices, Skills
