Based on past experiences, what are some of the favorite goalie camps in the area this summer and why?
Thanks in advance
Summer Goalie Camps
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I am not sure when you are looking for but Eli Wilson is a new program to the area and is the BIGGEST NAME in Canada... He happens to have a local connection now with our new Wild goalie Devan Dubnyk as he trains him in off season. He is coming to Minnesota for the first time this fall over MEA weekend. This will be a great opportunity for Peewee players and up.
http://www.eliwilsongoaltending.com/Camps.aspx
Check out his page
http://www.eliwilsongoaltending.com/Camps.aspx
Check out his page
The Minneapolis-based Carroll Goalie School is offering several weekend camps this summer.
Learn more at www.carrollgs.com.
Learn more at www.carrollgs.com.
Last edited by Carrollgs on Fri Jun 05, 2015 9:21 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Camps are too "one size fits all" for a more advanced kid. If your kid is young and needs to learn the basics then go to one of them. Otherwise take your money and go one on one with somebody who teaches what your kid needs to learn. Movement stuff use Zach Sicich (spelled wrong but you can find him) from the cities. Technique in the net that will be molded to each kid based on how they play and not based on how "everybody knows you need to play goalie this way" then go to Staubers in Edina. Another place used to be called GDI but name changed again, they are good. You have resources in the cities that are very very good for tending but you also have some guys who are too locked into the old school of tending who know how your kid needs to play even though they have not met them. So do your research and find the best fit for your kid. Shop around and see who you like and who you don't so much like.
Also, I assume you have a younger kid since you are starting to look for camps for goalie. Get your kid skating. if he/she can't make the team as a skater then they can't be a good goalie for that team. Your kid needs to be one of the best if not the best skater on the team. Not stick handling and stuff like that but raw skating skills. Also your kid should start to study the game. Too many kids watch the goalie and want to be like them. They watch the 6'2" butterfly goalies and decide that at 5' they are gonna go all in on the butterfly. Won't work out. Tell your kid to play their game but most of all to watch how stuff develops. As your kid gets older and more experience (by late PeeWees and for sure in Bantams) your kid should be watching from his/her net how things are breaking out in the other zone and be able to predict where the puck is going to end up and who (based on players on the ice) is more than likely going to take that shot. Shooters are creatures of habit so they will take the same shot most of the time which will help your goalie too. Once your kid gets older they can and will be able to start to influence the shot selection and to get that shooter to take the shot they want him to take.
Most coaches at the youth level and lots of them at the high school levels do not understand goalies or how to pick them. They (for the most part) don't understand what they are looking at so they go for that flashy kid who looks "like a goalie should" rather than for a sound goalie so you need to make sure that your kid is solid in all aspects of the game. As you go up in levels you will get into the world of coaches who know goalies and how to pick them and if you have done your job of preparing them at the younger levels they will be able to pick their options.
As you know goalie is the hardest position in hockey for sure and probably in sports to play both from a player stand point and from a parent stand point. It gets worse as you go up the levels. Get used to it, it is not going to change.
Also, I assume you have a younger kid since you are starting to look for camps for goalie. Get your kid skating. if he/she can't make the team as a skater then they can't be a good goalie for that team. Your kid needs to be one of the best if not the best skater on the team. Not stick handling and stuff like that but raw skating skills. Also your kid should start to study the game. Too many kids watch the goalie and want to be like them. They watch the 6'2" butterfly goalies and decide that at 5' they are gonna go all in on the butterfly. Won't work out. Tell your kid to play their game but most of all to watch how stuff develops. As your kid gets older and more experience (by late PeeWees and for sure in Bantams) your kid should be watching from his/her net how things are breaking out in the other zone and be able to predict where the puck is going to end up and who (based on players on the ice) is more than likely going to take that shot. Shooters are creatures of habit so they will take the same shot most of the time which will help your goalie too. Once your kid gets older they can and will be able to start to influence the shot selection and to get that shooter to take the shot they want him to take.
Most coaches at the youth level and lots of them at the high school levels do not understand goalies or how to pick them. They (for the most part) don't understand what they are looking at so they go for that flashy kid who looks "like a goalie should" rather than for a sound goalie so you need to make sure that your kid is solid in all aspects of the game. As you go up in levels you will get into the world of coaches who know goalies and how to pick them and if you have done your job of preparing them at the younger levels they will be able to pick their options.
As you know goalie is the hardest position in hockey for sure and probably in sports to play both from a player stand point and from a parent stand point. It gets worse as you go up the levels. Get used to it, it is not going to change.