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Mendoza Hockey Course. This is a course of instruction far more than a summer field hockey camp, it’s a combination of 70% field hockey technical and tactical training on the pitch and 30% hockey course work in the classroom. Without any equal, this is certainly the most comprehensive field hockey course offered in the USA and perhaps unequaled anywhere in the world. This course of instruction is taught by Coach Rodolfo (Rudy) Mendoza, formerly the head coach of Argentina’s National Team and 2 times Olympic Coach. The course lasts for 12 full days with a ½ day rest break in the middle of the course. You will be totally immersed in field hockey both physically and mentally. Not only will you be taught at an accelerated pace, but you’ll have to keep up mentally with presentations, analysis and a comprehensive array of classroom assignments and group presentation. Not only will you learn all the moderns skills of field hockey but you be taught where on the pitch these are most effectively utilized, how to incorporate them into your game and in what situation, then in the evening after your matches are complete you will study and analyze video of these same skills as played by top hockey teams from around the world. You will execute and understand each skill technically and tactically. It’s something you may never have understood in the past. Each year this course is modified to keep up with what is being taught and played in the top field hockey countries around the world, not one exercise is exactly the same year to year. Even the course curriculum is developed in conjunction with the top hockey coaches around the world. Each year it is more intense, more demanding and more rewarding. Upon successful completion of this course you will have expanded your level of technical and tactical understanding far beyond any of your peers, in fact, far beyond what most collegiate hockey players are able to achieve and attain in 4 years of collegiate hockey. You will be one of a select group who will now comprehend modern field hockey and the way you train and the way you play will be changed forever. Field Hockey is a thinking game and no other hockey program teaches you or prepares you for this aspect of the game. This course of instruction will also have a selected division 1 or 2 top level coach as well as 3 selected International coaches from their National Associations (other countries) and/or International Hockey Club coaches. No staff of coaches for any course anywhere will come close to what will be available to you these 12 days. In order for successful course completion and to receive your diploma, you must successfully complete 75% of the field work and 80% of the course work. Players will receive initial assignments 60 days prior to the course date. It is highly suggested that each player have a personal laptop available for the course. This course is designed for an experienced player and mostly attended by Sophomores, Juniors and seniors in high school and collegiate freshman and sophomores.

 


National Elite Academy:  Mission, create the best preparatory Individual Field Hockey training camp in the USA for players demanding more, much more. Players attend this top level training camp to give themselves a competitive advantage over their competition for starting positions in high school and college programs. This course offers the most comprehensive array of modern skills training available to the hockey player. During the camp, you will match your hockey skills against the best field hockey players from all over the USA. You’ll learn what is required for success on and off the hockey pitch, such as SAT preparation, mental skills development and sports conditioning. All these important facets of individual hockey are wrapped into one training camp for you. The technical and tactical skills training will be at an accelerated pace as we make the assumption that you have chosen this course of instruction because you already possess all the individual technical and tactical skills and now need to more your game into “Advanced Field Hockey Player Development”. Our international staff of coach’s coach top club teams around the world in modern hockey skills and now are prepared to provide you the highest level of technical hockey training available in a US summer camp.  You’ll receive lots of personal, individualized attention during this entire extraordinary training opportunity. There is no other camp providing individual training at this level and in order to accomplish this courses objectives for you, you’ll devote an entire 6 days in this training course. 
 




Junior Academy

This fantastic fun training camp is oriented to our youngest players in grades 5, 6, 7 and 8. This is an incredible way to start or continue your field hockey training and development. During these 5 exceptional days of training, our totally awesome staff of international coaches will improve your individual technical skills, make you more tactically aware and improve your understanding of individual and team offensive and defensive tactics and skills used both inside the D and throughout the playing field. You’ll surely say you’ve never had so much fun nor learned so much about hockey after you complete this summer camp. Fueled each morning with the healthiest food, you’ll head straight to the fields to begin broadening you individual field hockey skills and understanding. No matter if you are a new player or a returning player, this fantastic week of hockey training will make a huge change in how you play. This is certainly and without any doubt the Best Junior Academy training in the USA. All players attending this course continually say they loved each and every day and wish they could stay and train more days with our staff of coaches. It’s an awesome adventure into the world of field hockey.

  
 


National Striker Academy – This training is geared toward making you a scoring machine!!!!   Several International Coaches who primarily coach the forward line in both International Club Teams and National Teams will take you through an entire week of “how to score”. From individual shooting techniques, scoring through deflections, penalty corners, strokes, where, when and how to lift the ball into the net and when and how to put it in the corners. There is a “hot box” where most field hockey goals are scored and you’ll learn how to get the ball into this area and then how to put it in the goal. During the fantastic week of instruction you’ll learn what the Goalkeepers are being taught and how to beat them at their game. You’ll learn how to predict the goalkeeper’s reaction to your fakes and faints and then how to capitalize with a quick shot. During the evenings you’ll have the opportunity to be on a team and put into practice what you will have learned each day. In the middle of the week, you’ll have an international goalkeeper demonstrate numerous modern goalkeeper techniques and how these techniques can all be beaten. It promises to be a fun and very rewarding week and one that certainly will make you a more valuable resource to your team. After all, if you cannot score, perhaps you need to explore another position option within your team.

  
 

Indoor Hockey Camp  East Coast Field Hockey provides the only professional indoor hockey camp in the USA. This camp consists of 3 full days of indoor hockey instruction. The head Coach for this course is coach Heino Knuf, Germany’s director of coaching or one of the Indoor Staff coaches assigned by Coach Knuf. Since Germany has been and remains one of the Best Indoor Hockey programs in the world, the staff for this course naturally comes from Germany. This dynamic hockey program encompasses all the exciting skills of indoor hockey and will challenge you in every facet of your indoor game. Players need to arrive with a fundamental understanding of indoor hockey. Many of the indoor techniques and tactics you learn you will be able to transfer to your outdoor field hockey game. If and when you have the opportunity to play field hockey on astro turf, you’ll quickly discover that all these indoor skills you possess have now made you a better and more successful field hockey player.
Indoor hockey is far more than changing to an indoor hockey stick. It is an entirely new dimension of hockey played at a pace that will surprise most players with ball speeds in the 40 mph arena!!!!  That’s fast so you need to both think and play at greater speeds. With all the new Rule of Field Hockey changing the game to a faster one, Indoor Hockey will now have an even greater positive impact on your Field Hockey. Many players quickly develop a “love of playing” indoor hockey with all the tricks, skills and drills associated with playing “real indoor hockey”. Don’t be confused, there are two distinctively different sports played with a hockey stick and a ball, one is Field Hockey (this is played outdoors on grass or turf) and the other is Indoor Hockey (played on wood or plastic playing surfaces with a different stick and a different ball).