Hockey Tests
the best way how to evaluate players
Hockey Tests is comprehensive set of measurable hockey skills delivering valuable information about players overall shape including speed, agility, strength and endurance.
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- Why?
- How?
- Who?
- What do you need?
- Test Analyses
- How often?
- Sample
- Sign in
Make sure, that you watch both video clips. It will help to you to plan your tests much easier.
Why?
Knowing the fact, that competition is motive power for every hockey player, it's very efficient, even necessary, to create healthy, competitive team environment for right development of players.
Hockey Tests are the way how to compare level of your team or single player with wide world hockey competition of certain age in our hockey-site.com database.
Here you can see a sample of results from Endurance Hockey Tests (U12 age group)
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Hockey Tests are feedback for both, players and coaches.
How?
There is a set of measurable hockey skills to get info about speed, endurance and agility:
- 30 m Sprint Forwards
- 30 m Backwards
- 6 x 9 m Stops
- 6 x 9 m Turns
- Crossover Forwards Right (on circles)
- Crossover Forwards Left (on circles)
- Crossover Backwards Right (on circles)
- Crossover Backwards Left (on circles)
- Agility (30 m distance with cones-pucks in 4,5 meters from each other counted from last one; 30m - 25.5 - 21 - 16.5 - 12 - 7.5 - start!) Take a look at HOCKEY TESTS HOW TO video clip
- Endurance (6 x 30 meters)
To get more info about players to be able better analyse and evaluate each player and/or your team generally, you need to find out also strenght of your players by:
- push ups
- squats on one leg right/left
It is doable to implement the all hockey tests within regular practice. However there is some staff requirement to measure, write down and video capture particular performance.
There two major parts: on ice and off ice.
On Ice:
Part I.
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Station 1.
- 30 m Sprint Forwards
- 30 m Backwards
Station 2.
- 6 x 9 m Stops
Station 3.
- 6 x 9 m Turns
Station 4.
- Crossover Forwards Right
- Crossover Forwards Left
Station 5.
- Crossover Backwards Right
- Crossover Backwards Left
Station 6.
- Agility
Part II.
Up to 6 Stations
- Endurance
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Off Ice:
Part I.
Up to 6 Stations
- push ups
Part II.
Up to 6 Stations
- squats on one leg right/left
Staff
There is best way how to keep track of results and test flowing is to put 3 persons on each station. Those people are usualy hockey parents.
1. person: Timekeeper
- "how to measure time properly" in "Welcome message"
2. person: Register
- the form for results "Welcome message"
3. person: Capturing Video
- how to capture and edit video (including time results correction) in "Welcome message"
Running 6 stations requires 18 persons on a ice including video capturing. Ones you'll sign in, you'll recieve Welcome Message with more details how to run hockey tests more easily.
Of course, there's no limit to make tests in your own as individual hockey player or in small group of players. Just sign in and we'll send to you more details.
Who
To know overall skill and physical level of players is crutial for both, coaches and players as well. That's only way how to find out if you are on right track.
All players make huge progress steps each hockey season, that's why hockey-site. com database is divided into several age groups:
- under 12
- under 13
- under 14
- under 15
- under 16
What do you need?
- 6 stopwatch
- measure tape
- color spray
- 18 people ( to be able to run multiple stations at one time)
There is also requirement about how to provide each station properly to get valuable reasults. Ones, you'll sign in, you'll recieve Welcome Message with more details.
Test Analyses
To get most from hockey tests, you need to analyse them. Hockey-site.com database gives to you quotes for particular age group and hockey skill. You can easily compare your results or results of your team with others.
You'll get a lot of information about certain hockey skill to make or correct you practice plans. Hockey Tests is best way how to improve yourself or your players.
As adition to plain results is absolutely priceless to have a video records of each player performance. There you can find out incredinle valuable info to help "prescribe" sufficient hockey practice drills and excercises to get better.
To get outside hockey evaluation opinion, you can use some of the experinced coaches or scouts from our coaches and scouts database.
Do you want to know more? There is additional toll to compare your team or player's hockey performance or level of your hockey skill. It is hockey-site.com "Youth Hockey Ranking System".
How often?
Based on well known fact, that physical and skill shape could be improve or lost dramaticaly already within 6 weeks, we suggets to get tests results ones every 6 weeks, but at least twice a season.
That's why the hockey tests are designed to be possible to implement into regular practice as skating drills.