The Hard Path by Jeff Serowik Thank you parents and kids for all of your emails. We love hearing from all of you both when things are going great and when things are going not so great. We are here to help. We are the experts. We are here to train your child with unbiased eyes. Make them a […]
Hockey Advice “Recommit Every Single Day.” I tell this to my youngest daughter Pia. If she wants to play D1 College field hockey, she must continue to recommit daily. To her sport. All of these kids are incredibly busy balancing academics, sports, for us CCD and confirmation classes, family, friends, volunteer work, school clubs and most importantly […]
Successful athletes are mentally strong. The best hockey players are mentally strong. Here are some things they do: They practice gratitude. To coaches. Teammates. To fans. People who support them. Gratitude to their parents for the financial and family sacrifice that hockey involves. They don’t take a camp or private lesson for granted. The successful […]
A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true, by the very terms of the prophecy itself, due to positive feedback between belief and behavior. It took me many years to really believe in self fulfilling prophecies and myself. I am speaking as an athlete and a man. I […]
Feb 5 Try Out Tip: The Day After I am disappointed the Pats lost. It is a sad day in Patriots Nation. But I congratulate Philly. As do the Pats. Gracious Losers are equally as important as gracious Winners. The day after is hard. Tom and the Pats are already thinking about the work ahead […]
Feb 4 Advice The Big Game or Try Out The old cliche. ” Don’t reinvent the wheel”. Don’t do it. Eat dinner as normal, go to bed at your regular bed time, get up at your regular time, same old breakfast that works for you. Business as usual. Once during my pro career, the night […]
Feb 3 Try Out Tip Work on Strengthening Your Wrists and Forearms get a wrist gripper or wrist ball or ring use it in the car, we are all in the car A LOT on the way to hockey leave these little tools in the car kids at any age can work on strengthening their wrists […]
Preparation Takes Away Nervousness Try Out Tip of The Day: Feb 2 Many of you have try outs in March. Do something every day to prepare. Start now. Don’t cram. Strengthen your legs for speed. This needs to be done off the ice. We are in the middle of winter and cold and flu season. […]
Hockey does NOT always go as planned My first game in Toronto Spelled my name wrong on my jersey ( SEROWIK has no C. Mostly always pronounced wrong. Sounds like heroic for proper pronunciation) My jersey  fell to the ground in my stall before the game by accident My coach screamed at me for “disrespecting The […]
Recruiting Big huge CONGRATULATIONS to Carsen and her committment to Boston College. Carson is a freshman at Shattuck St. Mary’s. We met her in 2014 at AAA Boston University Battle Camp. Her work ethic was immediately apparent then. She has continued to train with us at AAA BU annually every summer with the vast majority […]
