CAMPS | RINK TRAINING CENTRE

The Development Power Skating Camp is a half-day camp which involves one 60-minute ice session, one 45-minute dryland with Testify Performance and one 60-minute interactive boardroom, all designed to challenge each skater to the best of the abilities throughout the week.

The camp concentrates on proper body position while skating forwards and backwards. Also, focusing on forwards and backwards stride, crossover starts and tight turns. The Power Skating Camp allows for instantaneous instruction and direction from our professional on-ice player development coaches. 

Mastery Keys

Balance and inside edge control
Backwards balance
Stopping technique 

The Development Shooting and Scoring Camp is a half-day camp which involves one 60-minute ice session, one 45-minute dryland with Testify Performance and one 60-minute interactive boardroom, all designed to provide skaters with fundamental knowledge of proper shooting mechanics. This camp begins with the basics, working on passing techniques and accuracy to make the transition into shooting as seamless as possible.

Progressing skaters quickly into technical applications of proper puck preparation and weight transfer leading to faster and more accurate shots. Keeping players engaged, our professional on-ice player development coaches will challenge skates to learn how to receive and pass and shoot quickly. This camp allocates skaters to have a puck on their stick throughout the entirety of the program. 

Mastery Keys 

Passing techniques on the forehand and weight transfer
Wrist shot technique while stationary and in motion
Basic receive and shoot techniques 

Our Power Skating Skills Camp is designed to push players to advance their individual skill development and take their game to new heights before the season kicks off.

By focusing on players’ forward and backwards strides, as well as techniques to increase their speed, getting them ready for the season ahead. 

Mastery Keys

Balance and inside edge control
Backwards balance
Stopping technique 

Our Tryout Prep Camp is a great way to keep up your players’ development, even in the summer months. Our professional coaches will be running full day camps that combine both on-ice and off-ice elements in a manner that strikes a balance between fun and developing new skills, getting your player ready for the season ahead.

Focusing on developing a wide variety of skills from skating, passing, shooting, and puck protection, our skill development coaches are excited to get your player ready for the upcoming season. 

Mastery Keys

Quick start techniques
Puck protection
General skills
Conditioning 

The Advanced Puck Control Camp is a half-day camp which involves one 60-minute ice session, one 45-minute dryland with Testify Performance and one 60-minute interactive boardroom, all designed to build upon skaters’ abilities to control the puck in a variety of game-like situations. This camp creates confidence in players to be able to carry the puck at full speed on both sides of their body. Skaters will be challenged to get comfortable controlling the puck in all three positions around their body (forehand, backhand, and mid-body) and be able to make a play from all three positions.

Our coaching staff will introduce weight awareness while stickhandling to maximize total puck control. The Puck Control camp takes a focused approach building on fundamental progression and repetition to ensure players develop good habits. 

Mastery Keys 

Carrying a puck at full speed on both sides of your body
Comfortable in positions 1-2-3 (Forehand/Middle of body/Backhand)
Weight awareness with stickhandling

This camp will focus on several techniques that players will find useful in games when trying to get the puck from an opponent. Stick steals and different skills within it will give players the tools needed to quickly steal the puck from the opposing team.

Players will also learn a number of techniques to keep possession of the puck by using their body and stick while protecting the puck both on and off the boards. This is a great camp for players to increase their intensity before they go for tryouts.  

Mastery Keys 

Stick steals with angling
Full ice angling
Puck protection skating techniques (Briere and Step over techniques)

Our Shooting Skills Clinic is designed to push players to advance their individual skill development and take their game to new heights before the season kicks off.

By focusing on players’ passing and wrist shot technique stationary and in motion, as well as receive and shoot techniques, players will be ready for the upcoming season. 

Mastery Keys

Passing and puck preparation
Diagonal and lateral receive and shoot techniques 
Passing on the backhand and backhand shooting 

Our Tryout Prep Camp is a great way to keep up your players development, even in the summer months. Our professional coaches will be running full day camps that combine both on-ice and off-ice elements in a manner that strikes a balance between fun and developing new skills, getting your player ready for the season ahead.

Focusing on developing a wide variety of skills from skating, passing, shooting, puck protection as well as conditioning our skill development coaches are excited to get your player ready for the upcoming season. 

Mastery Keys

First step quickness (stops and starts)
Width stickhandling
Backhand passing and shooting
Conditioning 

The High Performance Puck Control Camp is a half-day camp which involves one 60-minute ice session, one 45-minute dryland with Testify Performance and one 60-minute interactive boardroom, all designed to build upon skaters’ abilities to control the puck in a variety of game-like situations. This camp creates confidence in players to be able to carry the puck at full speed and they will be challenged to get comfortable controlling the puck in all three positions around their body (forehand, backhand, and mid-body) and be able to make a play from all three positions.

Our coaching staff will introduce weight awareness while stickhandling to maximize total puck control. While also incorporating stickhandling in traffic and small areas. The Puck Control camp takes a focused approach building on fundamental progression and repetition to ensure players develop good habits.

Mastery Keys 

Comfortable creating width while handling the puck 
Stickhandling in traffic techniques 
Handling the puck under pressure (puck protection techniques)

This camp will focus on several techniques that players will find useful in games when trying to get the puck from an opponent. Stick steals and different skills within it will give players the tools needed to quickly steal the puck from the opposing team. Players will also learn a number of techniques to keep possession of the puck by using their body and stick while protecting the puck both on and off the boards.

Angling and the timing that is involved within this skill is a major focus of this camp and is a technique players will use countless times in a game. This is a great camp for players to increase their intensity before they go for tryouts. 

Mastery Keys 

Stick steals with angling
Full ice angling
Puck protection skating techniques (Briere and Step over techniques)

Our Power Skating Skills Camp is designed to push players to advance their individual skill development and take their game to new heights before the season kicks off.

By focusing on players’ forward and backwards strides, as well as techniques to increase their speed, getting them ready for the season ahead.

Mastery Keys

Body position and stride
Cross overs and speed out of turns
Transitions

The R1 Prep Program for Forwards is a position specific program which will focus on technical teachings as well as game-like situations that are specific to forwards.

Our professional coaches will focus on areas of the game such as puck protection both on and off the boards, shooting in stride and changing the angle, and stickhandling in traffic, that are crucial to getting players ready for the upcoming season.

Mastery Keys

Protection from contact and pressure
Shooting and controlling the puck at full speed 

Our Intro to Body Contact Clinic works through weekly progressions preparing players for their next season of body contact hockey.

Our weekly progressions will have players comfortable with all aspects of body contact, from angling, stick position and steals to giving and receiving hits.

Mastery Keys

Stick steals with angling 
Full ice angling
Giving and receiving a body check