Suburban Hockey's Premier Player Academy will be back in Summer, 2010!
Please check back in January for program details.
June 30-July 23, 2009
9 am - 12:00 pm
Suburban Ice - Farmington Hills
Onyx-Rochester Ice Arena
The Premier Player Academy features a comprehensive on and off ice curriculum designed for hockey players committed to developing their speed, strength, fitness, hockey skills and hockey intelligence in an intense, competitive and fun environment. Play the game faster than you ever could have imagined. Get ahead of the game and control the play instead of chasing and reacting. Enrollment is limited to 24 high speed players. Be one. 
Tuition: $325 for forwards and defensemen
Goalies are free but need to pre-register
There is no goalie instruction - we only take 4
Schedule
Tuesdays and Thursdays, June 30-July 23, 2009
60 minutes - Off-Ice Training
Dryland fitness technique training provided by Kirk Vickers of TRIAD
Performance Gym and Training Center, including flexibility, balance and agility, foot quickness and core training. |
45 minutes - Power Skating Training
Features hockey specific technique training to develop balance, quickness, speed, power, strength and stamina, and more importantly, how to most effectively utilize it to gain a competitive advantage in game situations. |
45 minutes - Off-Ice Training
To play the game at top speed requires more than just skating prowess. The hands and the mind have to be even faster. High speed hockey incorporates puckhandling, playmaking, scoring and checking skills into fun and intense specifically designed CQCs (Close Quarter Competitions). Players will be trained to improve their timing and positioning, how to create open space, offensive and defensive puck support, transition and anticipation to control the game instead of reacting to it. |
Instructional Staff
GEOFF BENNETTS
Ferris State University
RYAN PARDOSKI
University of Michigan
New Jersey Devils Draftee
JIM ANDOROFF
New York Rangers Organization
CAL McGOWAN
Dallas Stars organization
German Professional League
LYLE PHAIR
Michigan State University
Los Angeles Kings organization
SEAN HOGAN
Oakland University
Head Coach
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TOM ANASTOS
Michigan State University
Montreal Canadiens organization
JEFF MITCHELL
Detroit Jr. Red Wings
Dallas Stars organization
JESSE HUBENSCHMIDT
University of
Michigan-Dearborn
MIKE RUCINSKI
Detroit Jr. Red Wings
Carolina Hurricanes
SCOTT WOLTER
University of Illinois-Chicago
JOE JONES
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology
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Kirk Vickers-Owner of TRIAD Performance Gym and Training Center has been a respected figure in the Michigan sports community for more than two decades. Kirk has established himself as a premier athletic trainer and entrepreneur. This former Head Athletic Trainer for the Detroit Red Wings has been voted twice as one of “America’s Top 100 Trainers” by Men’s Journal Magazine. |
Kirk earned a bachelor’s degree in Athletic Training and Exercise Physiology from Central Michigan University. Over the years he has developed a strong reputation in the community working with many high level high school, collegiate, club and professional sports programs as well as individual athletes. Kirk is considered to be an expert in injury prevention and performance enhancement. He has many years of clinical experience with a vast knowledge of biomechanics allowing him to improve athletic performance through movement and exercise while increasing injury resistance.
Kirk currently owns and operates TRIAD Health & Fitness, a high performance fitness and training facility in Farmington Hills, MI. His facility not only specializes in working with athletes of all levels, but also anyone wishing to improve their level of health, fitness, and/or day-to-day function.
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