Coach Items

Hockey coaching and training equipment

Useful coaching essentials

• Tactics board:Show formations, explain strategies and work through game situations with your team.
• Coach’s whistle:A clear signal helps organise drills and communicate from the ice or bench.
• Taktifol sheets:Portable, reusable sheets offer a way to illustrate tactics and formations in suitable settings.

Balance boards for hockey training

A balance board provides exercises for balance, coordination and trunk control. Use a suitable board, clear space and exercises matched to the player’s ability. Transfer to skating skills depends on the wider training programme rather than the board alone.

Stickhandling trainers

Stickhandling aids provide obstacles and routes for practising puck control, hand-eye coordination and direction changes. Vary the drill and pace as skill develops, including controlled work under pressure.

Synthetic ice and training tiles

Training tiles create an off-ice surface for puckhandling and shooting. Only tiles explicitly designed to be skated on should be used with ice skates; ordinary dryland shooting tiles are a different product. Check the model’s intended use, assembly and care instructions.

Using a stickhandling dangler

• Stickhandling practice:Work around the obstacles to rehearse puck movements and refine technique.
• Hand-eye coordination:Controlled drills help practise accurate puck placement and reactions.
• Varied challenges:Adjustable layouts can change the route and difficulty of an exercise.
• Adaptable drills:Set the obstacle arrangement and pace to suit the training goal, available space and player’s ability.
• Different skill levels:Choose age-appropriate exercises and follow the training tool’s intended-use guidance.

Choose your coaching equipment

Make hockey practice easier to organise with suitable tactics boards, stickhandling aids and training surfaces. Compare the tools in our shop for your team’s needs.

Frequently asked questions

A tactics board, whistle, stopwatch and clipboard help organise practice. Stickhandling and balance tools can add specific skill exercises when appropriate.

Follow your association’s and rink’s requirements for coaches on the ice, including appropriate helmet and other protection. Use suitable skates or footwear expressly permitted for the activity; ordinary non-slip shoes are not a guarantee of secure footing on ice.

Include suitable balance exercises in supervised warm-ups or dedicated coordination and strength work. Begin with simple controlled movements before adding puckhandling, and only combine drills where the setup is stable and appropriate to the user.