Power Skating
Power Skating is strong, fast, controlled skating. Hockey power skating teaches the player proper skating technique, including endurance, agility, rhythm, balance, and strength. As the hockey player begins to incorporate these skills into his or her game, performance is enhanced and injuries are minimized. The earlier these skills become a habitual part of the player’s practice and game, the more likely the player is to succeed in the sport of hockey. Holly Harrington has successfully taught thousands of students the skills they need for peak performance.
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Tired of skills classes that only offer bag skates and moving around pylons?
Kiss those days good-bye!
Goar Hockey is excited to announce a new adult development model which
consists of development through game situations and scrimmage. Goar Hockey’s Adult skills will promote development of scoring opportunities,
game like tempo, and small area games.
6:15am Saturday
Gilbert Polar Ice
Fall Break Camp
$225.00 For a full week of camp!
$175.00 If you register before October 1!
Goar Hockey is excited to announce it’s dates for Fall break camp this year! Camp will be held for one week October 10 – 14 at Gilbert Polar Ice. Players will have 3 hours of ice time, and one hour of off ice. Camp is currently slated to run from 8am to noon each day, with after-care (ballhockey and other off ice activities) provided until 3pm at an additional cost.
Tentative ice schedule as follows:
Mites, Squirts, and selected Peewees
8 – 11 on ice
9:45 ice cut/hydration break
11-12 dry land circuit training
Selected Peewees Bantams and Midgets
8 – 9:45 Dry land circuit training
9-12 on ice
For those who register for after-care, lunch will be provided at 12pm. This camp, we will be providing lunch at an additional $7 per day. If your child packs his or her own lunch, there will be no additional charge. You must pre order lunches if your player forgets their lunch and needs to order there will be a $10 charge. Menu items will be released at a later date.
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ADVANCED POWER SKATING FOR PEE WEES AND OLDER !!!
DUE TO A DISCREPANCY WITH THE RINK “QUALITY CONTROL” WILL NOT START UNTIL JUNE 16!!! Sorry for the inconvenience!!
So you think you can skate huh? Set yourself apart from the rest of the pack by developing agility, speed, and effortless skating skill by attending Holly Harrington’s “QUALITY CONTROL”
Holly will take your skating, and your game a step further!
Gilbert Polar Ice
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Think you have dangles?
Come on out and work on your skills with Dillon Shaffer, one of the Arizona Hockey Union’s Midget AAA/AA and Mite coach for 2011 – 2012 season at Shaffer’s Dangles!
Every Sunday at Gilbert Polar Ice.
EVERY SUNDAY AT 3:30 pm!
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Schedule
Goar Hockey Schedule
The schedule is now up, live and will be updated as soon as new items are available. Please see schedule here.
read moreYou can’t Play…If you can’t Skate.
Period.
Power Skating is strong, fast, controlled skating. Hockey power skating teaches the player proper skating technique, including endurance, agility, rhythm, balance, and strength. As the hockey player begins to incorporate these skills into his or her game, performance is enhanced and injuries are minimized. The earlier these skills become a habitual part of the player’s practice and game, the more likely the player is to succeed in the sport of hockey. Holly Harrington has successfully taught thousands of students the skills they need for peak performance.
Think you can skate? Starting June 9 Holly will offer “Quality Control” an advanced power skating class for Pee Wees and older. Take your game to the next level and set yourself apart from the rest of the pack with Holly’s Quality Control.
read moreShaffer’s Dangles
Providing a positive, encouraging setting for teaching fundamentals to our youth hockey future.
Dillon Shaffer is a prime example of due diligence to the game. Born in Phoenix in 1987, his parents enrolled him in learn to skate classes at the age of 7. Dillon took immediately to hockey, and when he was 10 years old his parents enrolled him in squirt house. He quickly rose on the youth hockey ladder, playing Pee Wee A at VOSHA, followed by bantams and U16AA hockey for Kurt Goar’s DYHA.
When he was just 15 years old, Kurt Goar selected Shaffer on his U18 AA team as a starting defenseman but he soon transitioned to a dominant forward player. The following year Goar’s U18 AA team rose into the AAA division. Dillon’s ability to obtain skill and put it into action on the ice was insightful. With Dillon as a high ranking center, Goar’s U18 team took third in nationals. He was definitely a factor in the team’s success, leading nearly every team he played on in points. Dillon sticks to his motto of “When in doubt, dangle it out.” Dillon’s leadership skills earned him to be named captain for the NAU Lumberjacks, as well as their points leader.
His love for the game causes him to spend his summers dangling with over 50 kids in summer camp with Kurt, just because he loves to be on the ice. Dillon’s logical look at the game causes him to seek the basic fundamentals of the game for young players. He is a great asset to Goar hockey, Gilbert Polar Ice and The Arizona Hockey Union as his primary goal is to put the emphasis of the game back on skills. Both Kurt and Holly use Dillon as a key component in their programs, and advocate his ability to develop players successfully
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Well we had some small ‘technical difficulties’ but it looks like the site is back up and running.
New content will be added soon on upcoming camps, clinics, power skating with the one-and-only Holly and much more.
read moreKurt Goar
Email Kurt:
USA Hockey level 5 Master Coach
Rocky Mountain District Developmental Camp Coach
Coach in Chief – Arizona Hockey Union
Hockey Director – Gilbert Polar Ice
Goar Hockey has been established to provide premier coaching to the players of Phoenix. It is the goal of Goar Hockey to provide quality mentoring to players from around the state by using modern, up to date coaching techniques, combined with tried and true methods of the past to improve hockey as a whole in Arizona. In order to raise the level of play in the state, we must build from the ground up, ensuring that the players have the proper foundation to maximize their hockey potential. To grow hockey in Phoenix we must as coaches be committed to developing players the right way. We have hand-picked our coaches, to ensure that the skills and techniques taught on the ice are the skills and techniques that will further a player’s game. Our coaches offer classes, small group skates and private lessons. Links to all the coaches email addresses can be found on the contacts page.
“Kurt is one of the best on ice coaches I have ever seen. His teams are always well prepared and very disciplined. We need more coaches like Kurt”.
Al Bloomer - former USA Hockey Coach in Chief
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