Why is competition important?

In practice and development, competition leads excitement which leads to better development because everyone wants to win at that point. Everyone works harder, is more engaged and enthusiastic. An important part of your development plan for your athlete is the competition within practice.

You have the puck on your stick a lot during practice. In game situations, you compete, you battle, you make bigger gains and that lead to more success as an athlete and more fun because we feel and grow from the environment. Those are very important keys so we always look to have competition in practice.

We first learn the skill, then we try and do the skill at a faster speed. We add pressure and then put it into competition or game situations. That’s how the development of the athlete occurs and at its greatest point we can do that new acquired skill at a high pace with the pressure of a game situation on it, then it becomes a mastered skill.

At Vigier Hockey Spring Development Camps through detail-oriented instruction, repetition and small area games, players will increase their on-ice awareness, read and react to changes in the game, and create plays under pressure with their newly acquired skills.