Description

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Goaltending is a complex position in a complex sport. In the end, however, it can be over complicated to the detriment of performance. Ian Clark has put together ten simple ideas that that can give you a significant performance boost. Best of all they can be added to your game without excessive intervention or teaching required. These are straight forward ideas that many of today's top goaltenders have implemented into their game. The 10 Simple Tricks the Pros Use are both easy to understand and to implement. Each of them applies to the practical/tactical side of the position. There are four predominant ways goals are scored - traffic related, rush related, net-play related or rebound/scramble related. This book is designed to help streamline these key tactical areas in your game. As always with The 10 Series, these ideas will help you make more saves. This book is easy to understand and, most importantly, puts the reader in control of enhancing performance and stopping more pucks. Ian Clark, along with contributing writer Dan Cloutier, uses his 25+ years of goaltender-coaching experience, from all levels of play which has included working with many of today's leading netminders, to assemble this practical resource. 10 Simple Tricks the Pros Use is the third book in The 10 Series. The 10 Quickest Ways to Improve Your Game and The 10 Secrets to Great Rebound Control are also available on amazon.com.

About the Author

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Ian Clark was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He grew up in British Columbia and now resides in Dallas, Texas. He has taught goaltenders for the past twenty-five years including being the founder of GDI. Over the course of this time, he has taught many of today's leading netminders including Roberto Luongo, Cam Ward and Marc-Andre Fleury and currently has goalies that he has instructed on (or property of) 21 of 30 NHL teams. He was the technical author of From the Crease - The Self Development Guide to Hockey Goaltending (1998-2003) and The Goalie News (2003-2008). He is currently the Goaltending Coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets (20011-). Prior to this he worked as a Goaltending Consultant with Modo in the Swedish Elite League (2011) and was the Goaltending Coach for the Vancouver Canucks for nine seasons (2002-2010). He was Hockey Canada's Goaltending Consultant for four World Junior Championships. He also authored goaltending resources for this renowned hockey body. Prior to the Vancouver Canucks, he was the Goalie Consultant for the Florida Panthers. His goalies have won every major hockey championship including the Stanley Cup, Olympic Gold, World Junior Championship Gold, World Championship Gold, Memorial Cup and the NCAA National Championship. Ian is married to wife Debbie and has six boys - Morgan, Chris, Collins, Sam, Jason and Blake.