Hockey Basics for Kids and Beginners

Book Synopsis: Hockey Basics for Kids and Beginners is a fast, fun, and simple way to introduce hockey to the beginning player. Learning to play any sport can be confusing. Hockey Basics for Kids and Beginners provides a solid foundation for terminology, rules, positions, equipment and rink layout. It reviews what the reader understands with quick, fun, simple practice pages to reinforce learning. Before you can understand the following, "Alright, I'm going to need you between the pipes, and then you are going to go to the top of the circle, fake a deke, drop the puck at the hash marks, where you’re going to take a wrister, top shelf!” you’ve got to read this book. (The translation is on the website: www.HockeyCoachJohn.com ) Hockey players wear a lot of gear, exhibit a lot of skills, and play on a rink with a lot of lines and circles and dots. This book will explain it all! It is designed for kids and adult novices who want to learn about the sport of hockey! Have you wondered why there are hash marks on the ice? Why are some of the dots red but another one blue? How come there are two colors of shirts? Why do they put tape on the stick? What equipment does a hockey player have to wear? This book will answer all of those questions and more! Now all you need is some ice time!