SAMLING!
After a long and good drive (by Ella and Sofia) from Stockholm our second day brought us to the center of Gothenburg. Gothenburg is a very sport minded town with a lot of successful teams in different sports, but especially handball. However all the spotlights today were directed to hockey. The clinic took place in the very centre of the town on a big square with many sport fields. We played on a artificial football/hockey pitch.
A proper hockey pitch is the biggest problem of hockey (landhockey.nu) in Sweden. Everywhere they have to share pitches with football clubs, so the pitches aren’t 100% made for hockey. Besides that they play outdoor hockey for only 2,5 months per year. The rest of the time they play (very good) indoor. That’s why we focus on typical outdoor skills throughout the caravan.
We had again a big variation in the age groups, from 7 until 17. Luckily Dick and I are used to that and we always try to adapt the level and the challenge to the individual player. The kids were today from three clubs: Lerum, Valhalla and Partille. Two young Swedish internationals Adam and Axel helped us in the coaching. They did a really good job and we were happy to have them. Because of the level of the group was higher than the first day we managed to come further with the technical programme, learning them some special ways of hitting and the Latin dribble was also something new to them. It was nice to see how the closing game in the afternoon looked much more like a real outdoor match than the first game in the morning. Everybody was excited about trying the Hockey Magic and some even thought I had glue on my stick ;-) We had a good focus during the day, but especially 7-year-old Maja.
Oh..I forgot to mention that the weather was really bad the whole day, raining all the time. But when a you are surrounded with people with hockey hearts it seem like it’s no problem :) IloveHockey!
Dick and Tommie
P.S. Can you guess what does "samling" mean? “Come together”
P. P.S. Jeste li znali?
U nekim restoranima i javnim zgradam u Svedskoj postoje mix WC-i i muski WC-i. Muski su stajaci, a ostali sa sjedacim skoljkama se dijele. Mix zona.
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Post je objavljen 26.06.2013. u 23:28 sati.