GUSTO Hockey

Core Competencies

Knowledge - Built on quality instruction... All staff members have enjoyed successful hockey careers, more importantly, are superb instructors

Passion - Our instructors love the game of hockey. It is this passion that fuels us and helps us to understand and to motivate hockey players.

Dedication - Outstanding qualifications, a strong work ethic and a genuine enthusiasm for teaching hockey skills are all characteristics of the Gusto team.

Experience - Our staff has a combined 40 years of teaching, coaching, instructing and playing experience.

Fun - The most important component of any hockey program. All our camps provide students with a curriculum based on structure, competition and fun.

Results - Our Total Skills Development Training will make each participant a more knowledgeable, confident and skilled hockey player.

Objectives - To Teach and to Develop

Technical Skills

• Hockey Fundamentals
• Skating
• Puck-Handling
• Passing & Shooting

Individual Tactics

• More Skilled & Adept Hockey Players
• Building on Fundamental Technical Skills

Team Tactics

• Small Area Games & Team Competitions
• Read & React... Developing On-Ice Awareness

Each Gusto practice plan is carefully designed and created for the specific age and skill level of our participants. It is our goal to create drills that challenge our students, effectively utilize the ice surface, build off a progression and are fun!

Our staff follows a 6-step teaching process designed to ensure that each participant receives the very best individual and team instruction.

1. Discussion: We introduce the hockey skills concept to our students clearly describing all the individual parts.
2. Demonstration: All of our instructors posses the necessary skills to correctly and effectively demonstrate the proper techniques critical to students success.
3. Execution: Our staff members observe and evaluate as students execute the techniques and skills discussed and demonstrated.
4. Discussion: Our team will provide students positive and constructive feedback on an individual and team level.
5. Repetition: We believe that perfect practice makes permanent and repetition is the mother of mastery.
6. Application: We show our students how the skills and concepts we just discussed, demonstrated, and executed are applied to and used in game situations.

Our instructors are constantly on top of the changing trends in hockey. Through many years of experience, hard work, attention to detail and a passion for the game, we have put together a curriculum specific to your age and skill level. The first half of every ice session is devoted to fundamental skill development (technical skills and individual tactics). By isolating specific movements, we break down these fundamentals creating a solid foundation for any hockey player, mite through junior level players. During the second half of every ice session the more tactical aspects of the game are covered. Initially, the focus is on more complex individual tactics, but as the camp progresses, more in–depth team tactics and concepts are discussed.