Hockey IQ Podcast

Nick Smallridge

Season 1 Episode 166

On this episode of the Hockey IQ podcast, we sit down with soccer coach and English teacher, Nick Smallridge.

A few areas on this episode we discuss:

  • How to give impact team talks between periods/halfs and after the game
  • Quality questions asking... going beyond just asking open-ended questions
  • Guiding attention and focus to improve coaching effectiveness
  • Cueing players via intentions NOT mechanicals/technique
  • Benefits of overplanning practice
  • How to get transfer from practice into actual games
  • Small-sided game constraints and rules
  • Improving players ability to learn
  • Impact of shared language and curriculum
  • Maintaining reality-based practice.... Task simplification, not decomposition

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