The Video Drill Database is a unique hockey development tool for coaches, instructors, and players of all levels.  The Drill Database is a catalog of hockey development themes organized in a natural and logical teaching progression and are made available to you using digital video to illustrate the training techniques, drills, and key teaching points.
Drill Categories Include:

Coaching Skills
Technical Skill Development
Tactical Skill Development
Team Tactical Development
Goaltender Skill Development

The frustration of trying to decipher squiggly lines on a rink diagram is being replaced by high resolution digital video clips of the drill or skill demonstration. The Video Drill Database is a live document that continues to evolve on a monthly basis as various aspects of the game are broken down and revealed in a systematic drill run that is easy to follow and easy to understand.

There are few situations more frustrating for a coach than to know exactly what your team or player needs to develop, but not having any practical information on how to effectively, efficiently and progressively address the problem.   In The Video Drill Database, I have done all the research for you, and put together these topics in a way that is easy to understand and ready to present to your players.

The Natural Progression makes it possible for any team from Mite/Novice to Pro to use the most appropriate part of the Drill packages for their team, and steps to take the development to the next level.  Some of you may start at the beginning of the theme while others may start in the middle, depending on the needs of your athletes.  This approach can provide the developmental template for your team throughout the season, and all skills and drills you present to your players are in order.

The Playmakers Video Drill Database will:

Be revealed in a three pronged visual presentation to best maximize your ability to quickly understand the purpose, the patterns and the teaching points of the drill.

Three prongs:
Video Introduction
Video Drill
Printable Drawing Illustration to take with you to practice

1. Will be updated monthly including new topics presented and extended progressions for the existing topics.
2. Make communicating to your players much more effective.
3. Provide the development answers you need instantly and in proper sequence – no more endless research or Drill of the Month Clubs
4. Will work in conjunction to the “Playmakers Video Practice Illustrator”

The Playmakers Video Practice Illustrator allows coaches to select drill runs and order a customized Practice CD that contains all their selected drills on in digital mini-video format.  No longer does the coach have to struggle to try to draw, demonstrate or articulate the skills/concepts or drills, he can present the information to his players direct from me as though I was there as an Assistant Coach on their team.  The coach can not only present that drill but also has access to the drill in it’s proper context and has not only the progressions leading up to that drill, but also how to take the drill/skill/concept and build upon it in the proper order.

1. You select drills and organize them in the form of a practice plan which is provided on the site.
2.  Why try to explain or draw drills again, when a video speaks a thousand words. For the first time, coaches can use video to teach their players right at the rink, then you can focus on quality.
3. Select and organize your drills in the practice plan on the site, then print and mail the practice plan to me and I will burn the drills onto a disk and send it to you.  Then you can take that disk to the rink with you along with your laptop computer and use the video to illustrate your practice plan to your students/athletes.  You also can maintain a video record of all of your practices for the season.

The Video Practice CD Illustrator, the perfect Assistant Coach for your hockey team providing technical information in visual form so that everyone can understand.  Most players, especially young players learn by mimicking what they see, so if we can provide good visual examples of the skills, drills and concepts, our players will have a much easier time making the connection and learning the skill in it’s entirety.

The Playmakers Video Practice Master will:

1. Revolutionize how coaches present drills to their players.  The white board is going to be replaced by the laptop screen.
2. Give you your first chance to select a custom video drills practice to be sent to you on CD.
3. Give an opportunity for the amateur coach to use video as a communication/illustration medium just like the pros.