About
Hello Everyone
For the past few months we have been talking at you, but not with you. I thought I would take a break and introduce myself.
My friend and I have been working hard over the last few months to bring some great hockey tips to the online hockey community. We have been working so hard at making videos, articles and getting the word out there that we haven’t even taken the time to stop and say hello to our friends / followers (how rude eh). I thought I would take the time to introduce myself, and hopefully you will do the same 
Jeremy
So that’s me, Jeremy. I live in Ontario and love to play hockey. I have a full time job that I balance with playing sports (mostly hockey) and working on this site. I have played hockey since I could walk and hope to continue to play until I can not walk anymore! I am a forward and love to dangle and of course score goals.
Ken
This is Ken, he is my best friend and biggest rival on the ice (when we are playing against each other) Ken played some competitive hockey in Alberta and then moved to Ontario to go to college (where we met). Ken is a defensive specialist, has a rocket of a shot and a few nifty dangles as well. He will be adding most of the defensive articles to the site.
What is the Point of this Website?
The point of this website is to get some really solid hockey instruction, articles, drills and how to videos online. When I was growing up I never had the oppurtunity to just hop online and learn a new move. I was desperate to learn some good moves so I paid $100 for some stickhandling videos when I was 15 and just loved them; I watched them all the time. I realize that not every child, or parent has that type of money so I wanted to provide some great hockey tips for free. If there is anyone that you know that might want to learn about hockey please share this website with them, and if you want to learn more about hockey then just pop your email address in the box on the left and join us (if you haven’t already)
Now it is Your Turn
We have close to 100 people who follow this blog directly by email, and a few hundred more following on Youtube and Facebook. I would love to get your input on what you think of the site, and what you would like to see. So how about leaving a little message in the comment section below. I think your name, where you are from, what level you play, and what you would like to see more of on the site is a good start. I hope to hear from most of you, and don’t be afraid to share the site with your team mates!
Jeremy
Grow The Game
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Great site–keep up the good work. Nice action shots showing the stick flex!
Lovin’ the work you guys are doing!
Hey Jeremy, your site is excellent! I have been playing roller for years, but just recently got into ice so I particularly enjoy your skating tutorials.
I share your philosophy on making hockey tips accessible and free to those who love the sport. Down here in the states not everyone has a frozen pond to play on and some guys get started on the street so I made a site to help people get started with roller.
I will definitely be linking to your posts that deal with shooting and other things that crossover into roller and ice if that’s OK with you. Keep the tips coming!
-Keegan
Thanks Keegan, I love your website you have some really good tips on there!
Im from Ireland. I only started skating about 6 months ago and ice hockey 3 months ago. So far Ive learned ***lots*** from your site, massive thanks for the article and videos on the hockey stop. I still havent mastered it but Im getting there (I think.!!). I loved the stick handling stuff. I’d love to see more “beginner” stuff in the powerskating section thats bout it. Great site. Many thanks.
Thanks Jasper, it is hard to meet all the demand at once but we are trying to add a nice mix of beginner and advanced articles in each section. We are both working full time jobs so it might take a bit of time. We have some ice time lined up so we are going to try and shoot some more skating videos soon, and of course we will put write an article that goes into more detail. Thanks for subscribing!
I am from Chicago, started playing when I was 15 and stopped at 20. Just started up again ( I’m now 36) thanks to a friend who was interested in playing. I never had any instruction from a coach or played on a competitive team but love the game. Its sites like yours that help build the game and make it better for everyone. Your videos are great and tips are excellent. I am planning on joining a men’s league this summer to push myself even further and plan on using your tips/video tutorials to help improve my game. I dont know if you have covered this information yet but one thing I would like to see added is offensive and defensive roles, for instance what is a centermans responsibilities vs a wingers responsibilities. In chicago the Blackhawks have helped bring many new players to rat hockey sessions and what I deal with on a daily basis is how people truly dont know when they play a particular position what they are supposed to do its basically just chaos! I like playing forward and am planning to make your weighted stick to help me with my stickhandling so I will try to provide some feedback on my progress and what I have learned through your tips/videos. Thanks for your efforts on the ice and off for putting this site together and I hope it continues to grow in viewers and responses.
Thanks a lot Lenny, positive feedback like that certainly helps keep us motivated!
I just wrote the first article for the series you suggested. Here it is The role of a winger in hockey, let me know what you think. I will let Ken write the post for defence. I will get started on the centermen article soon!
Hey guys, keep up the good work. I live outside the Toronto area and play in an old timers league once a week along with some shinny hockey. I love playing hockey and can’t get enough of it. I’m a D man mostly and enjoy reading tips on how to improve my skills.
Jeremy and Ken, great job guys. Keep up the good work. Maybe some day Grapes will mention you on Coaches Corner.
Walt AKA All Sports on the Web
All Sports on the Web
Fantastic site. Its wonderful to have people who know what they are doing also have the gift of explaining it clearly. Thanks a bunch for this material. I love hockey so much but wish my skating ability was as honed as my enthusiasm.
Great site! The videos are impressive and helpful. I haven’t spent a lot of time on your site yet, but I will.
I’ve been a hockey fan since the Avalanche came to Colorado in 1995. I’ve only been skating on ice since September of 2009. I absolutely love the online hockey community.
It would be great to see your take on what kind of off-ice training helps you become a better skater.
Thanks Scott, adding it to the ever growing list of articles to write
Thanks for all the great tutorials! i have been playing foor hockey for quite some time now and. Now that im 15 i have decided to get into ice hockey and your tutorials help A LOT.
Thanks
Keep em coming eh?
Hi Jesse, thanks for your comment
We definitely will keep the tutorials coming. I am glad the they are helping, we will try to put out new videos and articles every week.
Great site – much appreciated. Picked up hockey at 25 and with the limited number of adult clinics (which are expensive if you can even find them) a website like this offers people like me a great resource for making practice time on the ice worth a lot more. Thank You.
This has been a great resource for a beginner like myself and my teammates. The drills are great, and step by step really helps with the visuals. However, I would like to see some suggestions how to improve hockey strength in the weight room. For a novice, it is hard to build a circuit to work out the same muscles we use on the ice. Thanks for the help! Keep it up.
We will be doing some weight room stuff during the slapshot challenge. For speed and some other workouts you could visit Weiss tech hockey that link goes to a few articles about hockey speed.
We will try to get some up here as well, it might take some time that’s all.
Thanks for your comment
This website is great. I red the wrist shot video, and now I can pick all the corners in 4 shots. Keep it up, eh?
hey i’m from kuwait i have just joined kuwait girls hockey team and i know a little bit things about hockey i joyend ur website to have more information and tips about hokey plz help me coz i really love hockey
Can I ask you a question? Can you make some hitting vidoes
no problem we have one coming up shortly, mostly dealing with one on ones, but we shall get a hitting video up once we can get some more ice time.
Thanks. I got tryouts right around the corner, so I got to be at the top of my game.
Hey guys, I’m from Quebec, Canada and I started playing hockey at 6 as a goaltender and stopped at like 13 years old. Now I’m 19 and I want to start off to play as a forward and that’s how I found your site, I want to improve my playing because you know when you’re a goalie, it’s really hard to play as a forward so that’s about it. I really love your site, you’re doing it for the right reason and that’s great ! Keep up the nice work !
Great concept for a site guys, I am finding the tips very useful. At 26 I am only in my 2nd year playing hockey and I am learning more from your videos than I did in True North’s hockey school. Thanks and keep up the great work.
keep the site going! Great stuff
If it’s not to much trouble, can you try to make a video for defence. I was in tryouts when the coach wanted me to play defence, so I’ve been playing defence ever since.
Thanks!
no problem we have a few articles up but we are waiting for the ice to go back in to get some great videos going. check the slapshot challenge out. it will definitely help you if you are looking to be a defensemen
thanks guys!
im a Brit living in croatia where roller hockey is growing in popularity every year but have no coaches or places to learn. this will help the teams and give us ideas on what we need to work on.
i dont suppose you have any tips on how to deal with disciplin? – keeping the team in their positions?!?
hey richard great to hear your bringing the sport to new areas. You don’t have to discipline to keep the teams in their positions. the best idea is to keep them out of the skates and off the rink. teach them the positions first and hammer it into their heads. next you get them on the rink. I guarantee you will have a few players who listened to you and start playing positional hockey. this is where you use the reward system. the few that listen get the longer ice time, and play whatever position they want. the rest of the team will see that if they stick to their positions they will be rewarded as well.
now as for disciple…nothing works better then a benching a player. do not yell or curse just sit them on the bench. this is the best way to get the point across
Hi,
I Love the photos I’m guessing that are out on a frozen lake. Brings back fond memories as I too grew up in Ontario but now living in Sydney Australia. I can recall weekends going up to our or a friends cottage (ours near Haliburton and friends near Beaverton). Would get up late Friday evening and would immediatley start shovelling the snow till the wee ours of the morning only to find that it was all for nothing as it snowed again. But we didn’t care. We just started shovelling again. Ah those were the days lol!
Ted
Great site and I very much appreciate your videos. I’m captain of a brand new adult hockey team in Seattle, WA and trying to get us all up to speed as quick as possible. It’s challenging for us old guys. I’ve shared your info with my team and look forward to future installments. I would especially love some focus on positioning aka where the heck should I be based on a current situation. Just figuring that out has been a challenge.
Thanks Paul, I have added an article on the positioning for a winger. We will add more articles on position soon!
Thanks so much for the site. I always read your posts on Reddit and have learned a ton from your videos. I play with and manage an adult women’s hockey team in Alaska, and forward your links to the team all the time. We range from age 20 to 60 and include beginner skaters to those who have played for decades. We all learn from your site – it’s like having an on-line coach. Any summer practices/workouts you have would be great – our rink doesn’t open until September and the ladies are getting stir crazy
Hey guys, nice website. I stumbled upon this site a few days ago, and I have been practicing my shots, and I have already noticed a difference! The only question I have is why did I not find this sooner?
-Alex
Guys I just started to play ice hockey (age 26) so much fun!! and your tips and vids are great for guys like me who dont have a clue what there doing on the ice.
Thanks learning allot. keep up the good work
Just discovered this website yesterday and love it…I loved your videos so much that I splurged and bought the hockeyshot extreme passing kit, radar gun, and folding backstop to use in conjunction with this website to tweak my mechanics for increased shot speed like Jeremy has talked about in his videos. I’ll be spreading the word of this great site!
Awesome Mark!
You will love the passing kit and the radar gun. The backstop is great too, but you might need to re-enforce the meshing if you have a hard shot. I really like the roll-up shooting pad that comes with the xtreme passing kit, it gives you so much room to practice moves, and shooting. Once you get the radar gun send me an email and I will give you a few tips for how to get the most consistent readings.
hi jeremy,
realy like the website, especialy because i live in england and trying to find as much instuctional info on hockey and thats what this website does for free! I have just subscribed and loved the first artical on the slap shot; it realy helped my understanding on the technique. are there any sites that will send radars, pucks, shooting mats etc. to england?
Harry Johnstone