297 Parents: A Fun Look of Items to Include in Your Goalie’s Summer Training Kit

Stop It Goaltending U the app parent segment. What do you got planned for us this week?

We're we're gonna do a little summer gear draft. How's that? Oh, I want Do I need to tell you more?

I want We're gonna

have a little we're gonna have a little fun inspired in part by this week's featured guest, but maybe Woody can tell us a bit about something else you could be doing to get ready as a goaltender.

I was just gonna say I want first pick in whatever draft we're doing. Oh, excellent. Excellent. Because you know what I'm gonna take.

Because you cheated already.

I am a cheater.

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Alright, boys. I noticed that our featured guest on social posted four images that made up his recommended summer training kit for goalies. Makes a lot of sense. Matt is with us in part because of his, work as a provincial level development model guy, and so that he would be commenting on summer training. Made a lot of sense.

Turns out when I went back just to double check because I knew you guys would ask me what those four things were, And we've already teased me about my memory 14 times today or I forget how many times. Don't remember teasing. Was a repost. Yeah. It turns out this was a repost from a coach in Edmonton who is doing great work with associations there.

And, he's a very creative coach, really thinks the game, and he's done some pieces at the Old InGoal. And I'm talking about Cortex Goalie Developments, Evan Carrillo. Go find him in the guide. He, he posted this actually six years ago. So, anyway, I'm not gonna spoil this by, telling you just yet what Matt and Evan posted for theirs, but I just thought for fun guys, we would raise the question.

What would you suggest that young goalies used to train this summer? We're not talking on the ice things here, and the one little caveat is that you can't use anything from any of our show sponsors because, of course, Stop It Goaltending U, Vizual Edge, Sense Arena, all those things are great to to train with. Let's do this kind of draft style. We're gonna go around the table here maybe three, possibly four times. And since Woody, as always, jumped the gun in our chat last night, he can get things going with the first pick.

Is it a snake

first pick.

Is it a snake grab?

Where oh. Oh, sure. We could do that. Would you like to do that, Daren?

Well, otherwise, it gives him a huge advantage.

Okay. Okay. Oh, well, the other thing, just making sure he doesn't get a huge advantage, I thought I'd let Woody know he's not allowed to claim all three right away because he likes to get as many things into a sentence as he possibly can. Woody, you only have one pick in the first round, and, Daren, we can do it snake style if you would like. Kevin Woodley, what are you gonna start with?

With the first pick in the tools for summer draft, Kevin Woodley selects tennis racket.

And why did you do that?

You knew that was coming, boys. You knew that.

I knew it was coming. How come, Woody?

Because I'm just a massive Henrik Lundqvist fan, and he used to talk about how he used it to train in the off season. And when you start to think about it, the lateral footwork, the quick feet required, the legwork from a, you know, side to side movement perspective combined with eye hand coordination, the ability to sort of track a moving object that's bouncing up at you off the court quite often in tennis, so coming up towards you and then coordinate with hand.

Because I'm just a massive Henrik Lundqvist fan, and he used to talk about how he used it to train in the off season. And when you start to think about it, the lateral footwork, the quick feet required, the legwork from a, you know, side to side movement perspective combined with eye hand coordination, the ability to sort of track a moving object that's bouncing up at you off the court quite often in tennis, so coming up towards you and then coordinate with hand. Like, I just think there are enough similarities that it makes sense that it a lot of the skills required and athleticism required should translate. And frankly, one of the best goalies of all time like to use it in the off season. So I think that's proof positive.

So give me the tennis racket, and I will find a place to, in my case, go get my ass kicked by my wife on the tennis court.

We might have to play over in Vancouver next time I'm over Woody. Daren, would you like the privilege of the second pick in the draft?

Yes. Swimming.

Right. Swimming. Do tell.

Yeah. Just just cardiovascular. It it's an underappreciated sport when it comes to fitness. And you're also in the water, and you you don't have to just swim laps. You can hang out and do different we had guys who used to play water polo. I I talked to Mark Stone. Used to play water polo in the summer as part of his training with with a bunch of junior hockey compatriots.

And that was a huge first physical fitness. But just swimming in in general is awesome for your cardiovascular to the point where you at times, you don't even know you're doing the training because you can fit other aspects into it.

Hold on. Hold on. So I said tennis racket, and you're coming up with a pool?

Yeah. Well Daren Daren's training kit is very large.

Yeah. You can go to your Big training kit.

You can go to your neighborhood pool, can't you?

Yeah. Yeah. It's just goggles in Daren's pool. That's all.

Listen. I mean yeah. Listen. Listen. Listen.

You can go to your neighborhood pool or your local YMCA, but some of us have a little issue with germs. So as my after watching my kid at her weekend volleyball tournament get into the hot tub in the hotel we were staying at, and I yelled down to her, you better be bathing in Lysol after this. I'm not sure I can do the public pool.

Oh.

So Daren's kit just cost me a 145 k and a big hole in the backyard.

Bloody hot tubs do not count as training. Okay. Daren, that's awesome because you came way out of left field on that one. I did not expect water polo. I love it.

I'm gonna also be a little bit out of left field because everybody is probably thinking hand eye coordination, fitness, and so on. And I'm gonna say golf clubs. And I'm gonna say golf clubs not because of the physical side of the sport, but the mental side of the sport. It's you alone. You need a next shot mentality.

There's a real good chance that you're not gonna be very good at it. Those of us who are very good at it are the exception. I said us, but I'm not one of them. And, also, it is a lifetime sport. So you're helping your child develop a a passion for a sport that will last a lifetime.

And if you think that being a goaltender is financially crippling you, wait till your kid gets into golf. It's actually a super affordable sport for junior kids. It's actually one of the reasons I love it because you spend about what you would spend, you know, for house league hockey, but you get access to the golf course all summer long. It only becomes expensive when they rope you in as an adult. But, yeah, golf clubs is my pick.

And since it is a snake draft as Daren called it, I guess I get one more pick now. And I'm gonna go on a similar line of the mental side. I'm gonna say a baseball glove. And I think we all know that baseball is an incredible sport for catching. We've had people tell us on the show before that learning to catch a a ball is actually an underdeveloped skill in goaltenders right up to professional hockey.

But I would also just like to suggest that if you can become a pitcher, that is another great mental battle because it is you alone out there, all eyes on you, and, developing that ability to next pitch, next shot, really good for your goaltending as well. So there's my two picks, Daren, and it's back to you.

I'll go a pair of runners and three tennis balls, three T shirts, three pylons. Doesn't matter. Stuff that you can just throw

in Just filled your kit out like I told Woody was going to.

Just throw throw them out there and you can create all kinds of different activities, shuttle runs or lateral lunges, a pair of runners, and anything to run around, and you have millions of of workout options.

I like the creativity aspect too. Challenge your kid to be creative. Yeah. Creating little obstacle courses. Yeah. Might be. Yeah. Have a lot of fun. Woody?

Oh, you guys want big ticket items. I'm gonna keep this a little simple.

I went runners.

I'm gonna say my yeah. After you went pool oh, Hutch has got a golf membership at the local country club.

Says the guy with a tennis court in his backyard.

Tennis courts are everywhere.

As long as he's a kick Well, he does not have a tennis court in his backyard, by the way.

Public tennis courts are available everywhere. And, also, there is one catch. Oh, you gotta kick those pickleballers off. That's the problem. Too many pickleballers.

The irony of the irony of Woody not wanting his daughter in a hot tub is he does not have a tennis court in his backyard, but he does have a hot tub.

Yeah. Then nobody other than other than family and Hutch every once in a while are allowed into. And Hutch doesn't know this, but when he leaves, I change the water.

I peed in the last time I was there.

Okay, Woody. What's your second here, buddy?

I'm going simple here, boys. It's called the towel. Not only will my towel allow you to dry yourself after you get out of Daren Millard's private pool with all your swimming, but the towel is one of the essential tools of James Wendland's Five Damn Things for the hips. Oh. That stretch has

been a Stretching into sponsored territory, although James is not a sponsor. He's just a contributor.

He's just a contributor. There's no sponsorship there. And the simple towel, the resistance training, the muscle energy technique, warm up that he taught us has been a lifesaver for me going into pretty much every time I play goal. And I would imagine that at my age, that also translate whether I'm going in the pool with Daren because you can get really tight hip flexors if you're doing swimming laps, or if I'm playing tennis with my first object, again, keep the hips loose. They're so important to everything.

Or just pretty much whatever it is, I end up with tight hips, golf, tight hips, a towel, and James Wendland's Five Damn Things is all I need.

How? 2 picks.

Oh, I get another one. Oh. Yeah. I'm ill prepared, but you can probably guess what my next one is.

I actually don't think I can. Foam roller?

Terry can can. Unbelievable.

Yeah. Not to be too obvious. But, again, the aches, the pains, the foam rolling helps sort of relieve some of them. It wasn't really debates on how invaluable or how valuable it can be. But for me, it's a staple and sort of as much as where a lot of this is focused on exercise and training, I do think that recovery, and recovery tools like, listen, if I was gonna get bougie and have a pool and a golf course membership like you two, I would say something like because they're not a sponsor, probably should be, but they're not a sponsor.

Something like a NormaTec boot to take all the pressure out of the legs.

You go. No. No. Well,

there you go.

Now you're

going roller.

Taking another draft pick early. Woody can't help himself. By the way, the only guy who plays golf as much as nobody plays more golf than Woody does, mister Bougie.

Woody played seven rounds last year. Let's not get into this.

It's five more than me. Back to you, Daren.

Brutal. I I like the the pressure sleeves. I like that idea. Is that where you

were going with Woody's not allowed to use that one, so that could be your pick.

Yeah. I I love those things.

The NormaTec boot? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. They're they're a little slice of heaven.

They're also a k a piece.

So Yeah. No. You can

get you can get more affordable ones.

We just got a set at Costco actually, about two weeks ago for a quarter of the Normatec price.

Oh, so there goes my yeah. Thanks for spoiling my chance to pitch Normatec as a sponsor, boys.

You've had a couple years trying, buddy.

No. Those those those are outstanding. I my buddy

has them.

Hey, do you want to explain what they are for people who don't know because we're being insiders here, Daren.

They're they're, like, big, basically, leg sleeves that go up to your thigh, and they they it applies pressure, and it increases blood flow and stimulates blood flow throughout the legs. It's great for post workout to to get get rid of everything that that your leg needs to flush.

Yeah. And, Daren, as a cyclist, you probably love it too. Yeah. Right? Like, like, any anytime your legs are tired, you put these boots on.

It's like having them it's like a like, hey. We don't have NHL trainers to give us massages post workout. As a matter of fact, most NHL teams have the NormaTec boots or some version of them. Long plane rides, just to get the circulation going. Brock Boeser, for example, here in Vancouver missed game seven of the second round last year because of blood clots.

One of the things that I know they told him to do this year after now that he's recovered fully from the blood clots to make sure on those long plane flights after a game, there is no worries is have the NormaTec boots because it gets the circulation going.

One of the first places I saw them was at the Ryder Cup, and team Europe was using them in between sessions on a double session day. So it's it's it's very cool. And golfers walking in it and stimulate it.

So Daren doesn't need them when he golfs because he's in a cart.

Yep.

And every now and then, like, twice around, I'll I'll be, like, a 150 yards out, and I'll just tell my partner, I'll walk up. That's fine. And then I'll get my

Of course, you you do play golf in a place where it's, like, 40 degrees Celsius in the summer, so it's fair. Your cart your carts probably require misters.

Yeah. Okay. I've I've had two now. Daren, you've only had two. So this is gonna be an odd little snake, isn't it?

It's gonna come back and stop at you, I think. Spikeball. Spikeball, fantastic game. You can play it anywhere. You don't need a lot of space.

It is not expensive. It is athletic. You get to develop those athletic skills that we are accused of not having enough of as goaltenders. You often see them at goalie schools, in fact, for some of the off ice training. Somebody like Eli Wilson.

Go check him out in the guide. Uses it at his camps, I know. Spikeball's a great one. I actually saw online a variation where somebody took one of those spring loaded trampolines, the individual person trampolines instead of a spikeball net and used a medicine ball. That looked kind of crazy.

It would be fun to try that out. So that is my third, and I will say final, and then we get to go back to Daren for his third.

Woody?

I thought we were doing four.

Well, if I I was then gonna say if anybody really needs to make one more pick, what do get in?

I don't have a four, so we wanna stop at three. That's great.

I said three to four. I said three to

four.

Cycling. Get get get in your bike. Beautiful. Just be safe.

Yeah.

Wear a helmet. Don't don't tootle around the neighborhood without a helmet. Please don't

park buy a Peloton. There's no traffic in your basement.

True. I just I I need to be outside, honestly. Yeah. I like the Peloton. I enjoy it, but the I've got a maximum time that I can do it for because I get bored.

When I'm outside, I I'm I'm I'm pushing myself beyond what I feel like I'm I'm going or intended to go, and and it's awesome. And even if you just wanna use it as a mode of just transport commuting a little bit, you're still gonna get some fitness in there. Just just be safe with it.

Yeah. Back and forth to the tennis court or the local pool.

Yeah. That works. But but I have my my Olympic pool in the backyard, so I wouldn't get very, very much on it. And and the velodrome, my velodrome goes around my pool in the backyard.

It's not nearly as impressive as the golf course in Woody's backyard.

It's just a putting green.

Hey. I, as as we wrap this up, unless Woody is dying to throw one more I, of course, cheated. And, although I only used one thing in my list from my cheat, I asked my good friend chat GPT, what are some out of the box things you might use for training as a goaltender in the summer? And, you can guess which one I cheated with in a second. One of the things that it suggested that I did not choose reminded me of one of the best chirps I ever heard from a coach.

Shout out Lucas Simpson to my kid after a tough session in a in a a goalie day a goalie training day. He looked at him and said, hey, Maddie. I'll bet you're really great at dodgeball.

Oh, that's a good one, dodgeball.

Yeah. But, of course, yeah, he

needs to

get out of the way of it.

But It can get a little violent. Have you ever gone on YouTube and and just watched clips from dodgeball competitions? It's intense.

Yeah.

Yeah. I always think of it as the the grade four game that you played in gym. No. It's serious, and they're good.

Yeah. They they so so we have to put a warning on that one. I also feel like if we rewind it a little bit, I'd like to put a warning on the spike ball. It is a fantastic activity. Would not recommend doing it as you get older with kids that are, you know, a third of your age.

We may have a spike ball in the backyard. And a few years ago, my father decided that he'd be okay to keep up with the teens. And I don't sure his back was ever the same after that. Oh, jeez.

That's so if well, the rest of you are training hard, Woody will be found as safe as possible in his freshwater hot tub. He has just cleaned it. Yeah. That's the extent of safe training for Woody.

With my tennis

racket Probably my wearing water wings. Probably wearing water wings just to make sure.

Yep. Tennis racket and my towel nearby. Won't bring the foam roller in because my foam rollers vibrate. So can't have

Like, electric if somebody pops over and they wanna have a hot tub, will you let them, or are you too concerned?

My neighbor, as the hot tub was being installed, was like, oh, hot tub. Hasn't been in it. That was five years ago.

So you don't let strangers not strangers, but

I love my neighbors too. They're fantastic people. But I just it's a it's yeah. No. I keep it pretty clean.

Has Hutch been in your hot tub?

Woodly germs only with the exception of Hutch, and some of my daughters have had friends over in there. But, again, I dump a crap ton of chlorine after they leave.

You're weird. I'm a germaphobe. You're weird. It's a hot tub. It's supposed to be dirty.

There are levels of dirty, Daren. There is backyard hot tub with friends and family and mostly just family, and there is hotel with 400 people staying in it hot tub. Yeah. That's Who knows what's been in there?

Come on.

That's that's Close

to it. In Lysol.