X 2010 Spring - 2-Day Overspeed Power Skating: Elite

Dates: Apr 2nd, 2010 to Apr 3rd, 2010

Times: Fri: 9:00-10:30pm Sat: 10:30-12:00pm & 1:30-3:00pm

Location: Huntsville, AL - Municipal Ice Complex

Birth Years: 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97

Program Type: Day Camp Only

This program has been designed to refine players stride and focus on speed and explosiveness in all areas of skating. Once the fundamentals have been reviewed skills will be performed at high speeds forcing players to concentrate on body positioning and skating technique. Students will be taught various concepts such as explosive turning, pivoting, forward and backward lateral movements, v-quick starts, quick backward starts along with a variety of high tempo game situational drills incorporating these skills. Players will leave with a better understanding of what their body and feet should be doing while performing skating movements. Our goal is to educate these players on why and how the body moves during skating in order for them to continue practicing and improving their skating stride, technique and overall speed.

Suggested for travel players with 3-5 years experience. This program will focus on breaking down all skating skills and re-enforcing proper technique. Players will be put through challenging drills that will emphasize stride efficiency, proper body and stick control, balance, agility, explosive stops and starts, lateral movements, overall speed and acceleration and much more. Throughout the program instructors will target player’s technique as speed and game specific drills are incorporated. Our goal is to first teach player proper skating technique and second to incorporate speed and explosiveness in order for players to perform game specific challenges.

The Overspeed Program will be headed by Keith Rowe and Karlis Zirnis. Their bios are below…

Keith Rowe - TPH Director of Hockey

Keith started skating lessons at age two
His first team was the Redford mini-mite house team-age five
Played on Detroit Diesel Travel Team-Mite A through PeeWee AA
Played one year of AAA hockey-Michigan Nationals
Played three years at Detroit Catholic Central High School
- Won two Class A Championships-1997 & 1999
- Was named Michigan “Mr. Hockey” in 1999-Given annually to states top player
Played two years (1999-2001) of Junior A in North American Hockey League
- Named to league’s West All-Star Team in 2000-2001
- Member of North America Hockey League Viking Cup team
Played four years (2001-2005) Division I College hockey at University of Alabama in Huntsville
Played three seasons (2005-2008) of professional hockey with the Amarillo Gorillas of Central Hockey League
- Served as team captain for the last two years
Assistant Coach for the NCAA Division I University of Alabama Huntsville Chargers during the 2008-2009 season

Karlis Zirnis – Co-Coach U16 American Thunder

Karlis Zirnis was born and raised in Riga, Latvia where he played for Latvian Hockey Junior Club until he was 17
- Won the Latvian Ice Hockey Championship in 1995
- Played in the World Junior Championship U-18 in 1995 and U-21 in 1996 and 1997
Karlis then went on to play in the North America Junior Hockey League for the Gaylord Grizzlies and eventually earned a scholarship to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH)
During his college hockey career Karlis won the College Hockey America conference his sophomore and junior year, was named pre-season player of the year in 2002/2003 and is on the all time top 20 scoring list
Following a successful career at UAH Karlis played professional hockey in the Central Hockey League (CHL) with the Colorado Eagles
- During his 2003/2004 season Karlis was the rookie scoring leader with 37 assists and 60 points
- He finished second in the Best Rookie category of the CHL Best of the Best poll and was a finalist for the CHL Rookie of the Year
- In his 2004/2005 season the Colorado Eagles were the 2005 CHL Bud Poile Governor’s Cup Champions and 2005 CHL Ray Miron President’s Cup Champions
Karlis also was invited to the try-out camp for the Latvian Olympic team and played games for team Latvia

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Maximum # of Registrants: 35

Cost per Person: $120.00 USD

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