Day 4 & 5
After we finished the three days clinics in Sweden we headed towards Denmark. However not only Ella and Sofia were our company, but also eight young hockey talents from Sweden continued the Nordic Caravan. They will stay with us until the end of our trip. The forth day was a long journey to the south of Sweden. There we picked up Philip, one more Swedish coach. When we arrived at our headquarters (hostel) in Slagelse, Denmark, the first thing the boys did was took their sticks and played a small game on the grass field behind the hostel. Real hockey spirit!
Today we had a clinic at Sorbymagle, with participants from five different Danish clubs (Copenhagen, Gentofte, Kalundborg, Slagelse and Sorbymagle). Almost sixty kids were waiting for us on a good sand-based pitch. Thanks to the rain, throughout the whole morning it became good semi water-based. We also had help of four coaches from the local club. The theme of this clinic was the “disguise”. To the kids we demonstrated and delivered all kind of techniques to mislead the opponent, like fake sweep, stepping over, fake receiving, fake hit, backdoor… In between we had also some games, the most popular was the game with a different kind of balls. In the tricks part all the coaches took a role demonstrating and inspiring the kids to get more ball feeling.
After the closing matches all participants received the Nordic Caravan T-shirts and hopefully left with extra inspiration in their backpacks.
Tomorrow we have to get up early. We drive about an hour to the next clinic in Copenhagen.
Post je objavljen 30.06.2013. u 19:03 sati.