TPS junior hockey coach manual

The purpose of making a manual for coaches in TPS Junior hockey club was to offer a tool for their everyday work on the field. The idea was to give help for their planning and coaching, but not straight answers. TPS is one of the biggests and most traditional hockey clubs in Finland. However the club did not have any implements for the coaches in the junior side. Starting point of this thesis was to create one. The know-how among the coaches is often not on the level that it should be and for that reason they need guidelines to show the road. The manual brings understanding to the basics concerning areas like development of the human body and the trainability at different age. Manual offers tools for teaching the basic skills of the hockey – skating, stickhandling, shooting etc. It gives also guidelines for the coach that helps him or her to realize what should be done at certain age on and off the ice. The manual consist of following chapters: 1. Values of TPS 2. Playing and player style of TPS 3. The development of the human body 4. Training the physical properties at different age 5. Season plans 6. Testing 7. Teaching and learning 8. Sport specific skills The project was started in the summer 2009 and finished fall 2010. Manual is written in Finnish so that coaches feel it easy to be used