{"id":663,"date":"2016-10-11T14:05:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lgsports.ca\/?p=663"},"modified":"2016-11-27T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T22:37:22","slug":"leslie-hockey-coaching-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lgsports.ca\/leslie-hockey-coaching-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Leslie Hockey Coaching Academy was a Mistake."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hockey Coaches:<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_2926\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoplayhockey.ca\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2926\" class=\"wp-image-2926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lgsports.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/how-to-play-capture.jpg\" alt=\"Click to make hockey coaching easier one lesson at a time.\" width=\"316\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to make hockey coaching easier one lesson at a time.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Are you ready to take your hockey coaching abilities to the next level? \u00a0<strong>Hockey coaches need a platform to speak up, to ask for help, and to get answers to specific questions that will make them better coaches.<\/strong> \u00a0This is now possible from the comfort of your own living room, or anywhere, on any device. \u00a0Read on to see how we learned from our early mistakes in the Leslie Coaching Academy to build one of the internet&#8217;s only curriculum based hockey coach training courses designed to teach you the details of the game that only hockey coaches will decades of high level playing and coaching experience can truly know.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2011 we launched the Leslie Hockey Coaching Academy, a series of live webinars teaching the game of hockey. \u00a0I thought I was so ahead of the curve! \u00a0I was right, but wrong. \u00a0We quickly learned from our mistakes, realizing minor hockey coaches wanted\/needed on demand training, not pre-scheduled webinars that didn&#8217;t fit their own schedules, or didn&#8217;t cover the topics they wanted for months to come. \u00a0Back to the drawing board we went, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoplayhockey.ca\" target=\"_blank\">How to Play Hockey<\/a> was born, an online hockey coaching training course for youth coaches and adult recreational players keen to better understand the hockey tactics, terminology, systems and theory of the game. \u00a02 years into our relaunch we have minor hockey coaches\u00a0all over the world (USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Hungary, Romania, England, to name a few) logging into the training course in dressing rooms, on holiday, at work, on the bus, and in their homes.<\/p>\n<p>To develop our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtoplayhockey.ca\" target=\"_blank\">How to Play Hockey<\/a>\u00a0course curriculum we tapped deeply\u00a0into our\u00a0extensive hockey network,to every corner of the planet, from the NHL to Dubai, from Switzerland to Manitoba, from Washington DC to Russia to package together over 100 curriculum based video tutorials designed to teach you the tactics, terminology, theories, and systems of hockey.<\/p>\n[maxbutton id=&#8221;2&#8243;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hockey Coaches: Are you ready to take your hockey coaching abilities to the next level? \u00a0Hockey coaches need a platform to speak up, to ask for help, and to get answers to specific questions that will make them better coaches. \u00a0This is now possible from the comfort of your own living room, or anywhere, on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90,147],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching","tag-hockey-coach","tag-hockey-coaching"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leslie Hockey Coaching Academy was a Mistake<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are you ready to take your hockey coaching abilities to the next level? 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