Teaching young hockey players how to use a stick at the initial stage of sports training

the article presents the rationale for the methodology of teaching children aged 8-9 years who play ice hockey based on the asymmetry of hand actions with a stick. Floorball tools are proposed for teaching and developing the basics of motor action techniques with a hockey stick with both the dominant and non-dominant hand. Lightweight hockey equipment was used during the lessons. Teaching ball handling (and a lightweight puck), passing and assisting was carried out both statically and dynamically, both from the side convenient for the child and from the side inconvenient for execution. Attention was focused on creating game situations and conditions in which the young hockey player had to perform motor actions with a stick from the inconvenient side to solve the motor task. At the initial stage of sports training in the annual training cycle of young hockey players, within the framework of general and special physical, as well as technical training, 27 to 30% of the training time was allocated based on the use of floorball equipment with an emphasis on the formation of skills and abilities in handling a stick with both the right and left hand in children aged 8-9 years. Based on the results of the annual pedagogical experiment, it was found that the young hockey players who trained according to a special method aimed at mastering technical techniques with a stick from both the comfortable and uncomfortable side, the results of performing control tests are reliably higher than in the control group. Also, reliably better indicators of the development of coordination abilities were recorded in young hockey players of the experimental group. The developed method can be recommended for coaches involved in the preparation of sports reserves in ice hockey.

8-9 year old young hockey players, technical training, teaching stick handling, motor asymmetry, floorball tools