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Top 25 Hockey Skills, Tips, and Tricks
Hockey is the fastest team sport. Professional hockey players can skate up to thirty miles per hour and can shoot the puck more than a hundred miles per hour. Playing the game at that speed requires a lot of skill and practice on the ice. This volume details the many important skills that readers need to know to become great hockey players, including skating, passing, defense, and a powerful slap shot.
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This series covers techniques needed to become successful in each featured sport. It's assumed that readers are familiar with the games as rules and regulations are not emphasized. The tips flow naturally from one to 25. For example, Baseball begins by covering equipment and the proper batting stance and ends with the advice to "keep your head in the game" and "Be alert." Gymnastics, Basketball, and Football start with introductory pages, while Baseball, Hockey, and Soccer have only a couple of sentences and feel more abrupt in style. Text is intermixed with action photographs that often decorate rather than elucidate the precision moves that are necessary. This set will have difficulty competing with the plethora of sports skills titles, such as those in the "Skills in Motion" series (Rosen Central), which emphasize techniques using slow-motion photographs., School Library Journal Fall 2011
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