Learning from Horst Wein - a simplified game approach to introduce hockey and soccer to young players.
Horst Wein was pioneer in game-based coaching junior territory field sports – hockey and football-soccer. His Simplified Games approach for Hockey argued for the replacement of a default plan of drills to develop prescribed skills to a default of small-sided game scenarios that create the opportunity for young players to “read" the game. The core philosophy of his simpliied games approach is that intelligence cannot be taught through drills, players learn it in and through play . Maybe not surprising then, one of his best known football-soccer books was Developing Game Intelligence. The Hockey Development Model Wein’s ideas for simplified games can be applied to a long-term game development model consisting of 5 levels. Level 1: Games for basic abilities and capacities Level 2: Games for Mini-Hockey Level 3: Games for 6-on-6 Hockey Level 4: Games for 8-on-8 Hockey Level 5: Games for official 11-on-11 Hockey These levels provide a progressive sequence of gam...
