Focus on basic skating skills

*Start as whole group at center ice

-Drop to knees, practice getting up

-Step over stick

-Push Snow to stick

-Skate Around stick/both directions

*Break into 5 stations

*Focus for 1st month of practice will be skating and balance.

*We may need to remove one station for the first couple of weeks to have as an area for beginner skaters to work on basics (example: getting up and down off the ice, balancing, edgework, etc.)

Station 1:

Ball Tag

Station 2:

Obstacle Course

Station 3:

Skating Skills

Station 4:

Barrier Tag

Station 5:

Jump over/climb over barriers pick up a puck and place it in the tire. Team with the most pucks in their tire wins. (No sticks.  All players must use their hands to pick up the pucks.)

*End with Game of Pom Pom