Free Summer skills give away today in honor of the Patriots Super Bowl Game.

We will give away 2 Summer skills free tuition for the following.

1) The person who registers today and that person's registration number equals the number of points the Patriots score in today's game!

2) The person who register today, and your registration number equals the number of points scored in today's Super Bowl by both teams. Your son or daughter will be given a credit for their Summer program.

Good Luck!

MARTIAN HOCKEY 2018 SUMMER SESSIONS ANNOUNCED

SKILLS PROGRAM FORMAT (GIRLS & BOYS)

Skills and Cross Ice Combined program for the SUMMER of 2017!!

MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, AND THURSDAY

STARTING THE WEEK OF JUNE 18th AND FINISHING BY AUGUST 16TH

120 minutes weekly sessions, 8 weeks, PHILLIPS ACADEMY

COST $280

Martian Sports Skills will continue with our new format to our successful skills program for the SUMMER of 2018! We will expand this combination of our successful skills format and the success of the development of our Cross Ice game format to 120 minutes each week for the summer of 2017. Each player will receive 60 minutes of skills instruction weekly and a 60 minute XICE GAME EACH WEEK.

Paul Sacco and Chris Dyment will once again return to run our successful 8 WEEK, WEEKLY program for mite, squirt, and pee wee/ bantam players. Each of these programs will meet once a week for 8 weeks for 120 minutes. The program is designed around the following weekly lessons:

Weekly Lessons

Week 1: Discovering your edges

Week 2: The importance of balance

Week 3: Stopping and starting

Week 4: Crossovers / quick acceleration

Week 5: Backward skating and transition

Week 6: Shooting and Stick handling

Week 7: Battle Skills and Body position/angling

Week 8 : Martian Cup

All of our weekly lessons are weekly skills are reviewed each week with the purpose of building a foundation for the young players to build on throughout the entire program.

COST IS $280 PER SESSION PER PLAYER

EACH PLAYER WILL RECEIVE A TOTAL OF 16 HOURS OF INSTRUCTION.

MARTIAN CUP TOURNAMENT 2018

Martian Sports Skills is pleased to announce that our 20th annual tournament will cap off our summer skills programs. This tournament is the highlight of all of our participants as they play for the right to carry the cup around the ice like their hero’s of the NHL. The winners will also have their name etched on the cup for future players to admire. The tournament will take place  August 7th to August 16th, 2018.

SPECIALTY SKILLS SESSIONS FOR THE SUMMER OF 2018

MIDDLE SCHOOL DEFENSE & CHECKING SKILLS – (7wk, weekly 1 hour sessions) THURSDAY NIGHTS

Martian Sports Skills will offer a weekly checking skills program. We introduce the proper method of

checking both with the body and with the stick. We will teach the proper  defensive techniques and positioning of a player in all aspects of the game. We will separate the players by birth years to ensure safety.

Players will be taught the following:

1. Proper techniques on how to give and take a check
2. Proper angling techniques and stick positions
3. Proper way to Identify and defend passing lanes in all zones
4. Proper techniques in stick checking (poke checks and defensive use of the stick)
5. Proper body checking fundamentals along the boards and in the middle of the ice
6. Proper defensemen skills including (gap control, offensive and defensive zone awareness, proper body position along the boards and in front of the net)
7. Battle drills incorporating all techniques learned in previous weeks.

COST PER PLAYER = $190  PER PLAYER

GRADES 6, 7, & 8 – 7:50 PM

MIDDLE SCHOOL STICK HANDLING & SHOOTING (7wk, weekly 1 hr. sessions) (THURSDAY Nights)

Ben Busden, Head Coach of Swedish Elite League & former Head Instructor from Turcotte Stick

Players will be taught the following:

1) Proper body and hand position when taking various shots.

2) Proper body position when stick handling in various situations with in each zone.

3) heads up play in both zones as it relates to shooting and stick handling.

4) Players will be taught 4 critical moves that will help them improve confidence and success in game conditions.

Handling, and Chris Dyment, Bruin and BU Captain, will head up our defensive skills program. This

. This camp is very popular and sells out quickly. COST PER PLAYER = $190

GRADES 6, 7 & 8 - 6:40 PM

COMBINED PROGRAM SPECIAL $350 FOR BOTH SESSIONS