Sports Energy News, Issue no 6

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Handling the puck, using core and

Performance Headquarters works with a number of local athletes, and Colts defenseman Pierre Ouellette is one of them. Ouellette, a puckmoving defenseman understands the concept of space and time and how even an extra split-second can be the difference between a pass that sets up a breakaway and simply throwing the puck away. Ouellette says that through the training he receives at Performance

Moving to the next level, where game skills are integrated into the process, the athlete has to complete an activity that is directed by what the player sees on the board. One example would be to stick handle for a two-minute period while watching for a numeric sequence on the T-Scope screen and making a pass off the wall every time a green light flashes in a predetermined quadrant of the board.

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✄ while maintaining your balance on a balance platform and any observer can appreciate the degree of skill involved with elite level athletes.

peripheral vision, maintaining balance, processing information and learning how to do each well and as quickly as possible, all exercises necessary in order to get that ever-important “edge.”

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Headquarters, he has noticed a difference over other supposedly less-skilled in his game. opponents. In reality it may be that the “After I started here I started to see athlete’s vision is simply developed, the play better,” says Ouellette. “I would through training, or nature so that see something at the last second, where both their core and peripheral vision before I would just give the puck away. is able to provide better than average results. It is difficult for any training “Just yesterday I came out from program to guarantee results, but it behind the net, and I saw a guy at the far seems that a program like that offered blue line and I was able to give him the at Performance Headquarters, which pass and send him in on a breakaway. I seeks to develop the skill the individual can make my decision quicker and do already has, would be a safe bet. something with the puck instead of just For more information on give it away.” Performance Headquarters, The term “seeing the game” is heard visit their web site at constantly when describing how an www.performanceheadquarters.ca. athlete in almost any sport seems to have an almost superhuman advantage

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