Nick Smallridge
- Author
- Hockey's Arsenal
- Published
- Wed 03 Sep 2025
- Episode Link
- None
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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