Books by Jukka Aro

Hockey at home is a book for ice hockey players with big hockey heart in all ages, but also for hockey parents, who wants to support their child to develop in hockey, by practicing hockey extra at home.Do you have the motivation to practice extra and want to learn more, and to know, what and how to practice hockey at home?In this hockey drill book you will get training tips, shooting and skill drills for hockey shot and skill pads, but also physical excercises you can perform at home.Parts of the content:What is required to succeed in hockey? - Shooting drills - Shots with obstacles - Skill tracks - Stickhandling and fakes on a small surface - Drills with a puck passer - Skill drills with jumps and steps - Odd shots, fakes and other training tips - Physical and coordination training at home.

How to turn a Super Mario hockey drill into a modern Fortnite hockey drill? Or what components are needed in modern developing hockey practices? These are some of the areas withpractical examples that are handled in the book, which ends with a chapter with Fortnite hockey drills and hockey drills for individual skill development.Are you an 8 bit Super Mario coach or a modern Fortnite Hockey coach? This game theme is linked as a red thread to leadership, coaching and hockey drills throughout the book.Personally, I am not a big fan of game consoles, even if it can sometimes, surely be perceived that way in the book. For example, I would prefer that my own children were more physically active than they are right now! Probably I'm not alone about that idea?

What is required from a successful hockey coach or a hockey team? How can you as the coach bring your team to the next level on ice, but also see and strengthen each individual in the team? How do you create engagement, work with goal setting, teambuilding, strengthen your players hockey capacity, run efficient on ice practices, reduce collaboration losses, get results and work with your communication and feedback, to develop your team and yourself? The team development and leadership areas are connected to an easy to use and practical leadership model, strengthened with examples, teambuilding exercises, on and off ice practices and hockey drills for you to use. Is it possible to predict whether a hockey player, hockey team or a hockey coach will be successful? I say it is, and luck has nothing to do with it!

How should a modern hockey drill and practice look like? How much does the console games affect your players and in what way, something negative or is it an opportunity? What can we hockey coaches learn from the world of console games? These are questions that are handled in the book and transferred as practical examples to hockey drills! Personally, I am not a big fan of console games, even if it can sometimes, surely be perceived that way in the book. For example, I would prefer that my own children were more physically active than they are right now! Probably I'm not alone about that idea?But I try to understand, see the possibilities, and handle the new challenges, as a parent and coach and share these lessons, connections, development and opportunities for you as a hockey coach and, or parent.How do you change a one dimensional hockey drill to a modern multidimensional hockey drill? Or what components are needed in a modern skill developing hockey drill? Learnings from console games are transferred in practice to your on ice drills and off-ice practices, with over 200 hockey drills in the end.

Floorball is about interconnected skills and movement patterns where the various mental and physical skills are linked together and used simultaneously. That is why this way of thinking also needs to be included in the planning and in the design of floorball drills and off-season practices, together with situations that reduce the time for performing a skill. All the floorball drills are drawn, so you can use it on different parts or in different sizes of the training area (full rink or as a small station), with an explanation to each drill.This is a goldmine of Swedish and Finnish floorball drills and knowledge! More than 800 floorball drills.