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Any changes coming/contemplated for body checking in Minor Bantam next season?

Guest wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:36 pm Any changes coming/contemplated for body checking in Minor Bantam next season?

Can't see any

Yes, but it's more like changes to minor bantam and above.

BB teams, which were former AE1 & AE2 teams, are all set to have contact removed. It's on the table and will be voted on at the next OMHA AGM.

I think they will likely go after everything under AA in the years to follow.

Yeah here's a change, keep your head up.

Hockey Canada does a piss poor job of getting kids ready for body contact. A good coach (good luck) should have been starting to teach when they're 10 the basics of body positioning, angling and balance. It's silly we play "no body checking" and condition players to play with their head down. Then some kid takes a run and lays out a big hit unexpected and hurts someone, or throw them into U14 with a 50 minute body checking clinic and expect they know how to PLAY with hitting. It's a joke. We should take it out of the game all together, can't even throw a big clean hit anymore without being jumped. Snowflakes

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:41 am Yeah here's a change, keep your head up.

Hockey Canada does a piss poor job of getting kids ready for body contact. A good coach (good luck) should have been starting to teach when they're 10 the basics of body positioning, angling and balance. It's silly we play "no body checking" and condition players to play with their head down. Then some kid takes a run and lays out a big hit unexpected and hurts someone, or throw them into U14 with a 50 minute body checking clinic and expect they know how to PLAY with hitting. It's a joke. We should take it out of the game all together, can't even throw a big clean hit anymore without being jumped. Snowflakes

Box lacrosse is a great way to see if your kid has the spacial awareness to play full contact hockey.

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Jun 05, 2023 9:18 am

Guest wrote: ↑Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:41 am Yeah here's a change, keep your head up.

Hockey Canada does a piss poor job of getting kids ready for body contact. A good coach (good luck) should have been starting to teach when they're 10 the basics of body positioning, angling and balance. It's silly we play "no body checking" and condition players to play with their head down. Then some kid takes a run and lays out a big hit unexpected and hurts someone, or throw them into U14 with a 50 minute body checking clinic and expect they know how to PLAY with hitting. It's a joke. We should take it out of the game all together, can't even throw a big clean hit anymore without being jumped. Snowflakes

Box lacrosse is a great way to see if your kid has the spacial awareness to play full contact hockey.

Yup, put my kid in box lacrosse this year. Kids figure it out real quick. I have no idea why we wait for kids to hit puberty and have some kids 80lbs and some 180lbs. At 7 and 8 they are mostly the same size and they are learning how to protect themselves and also give a hit legally.

Most important, they are learning when it the time for the hit and when is the time for positioning and staying in front of their man.

I recommend for all hockey parents.

I agree lacrosse is a good way to prepare for contact. I don't believe it is absolutely necessary though. Parents rushing to put their kids into lacrosse or football are funny. In a month of contact, most kids will have learned.

I have no idea why we wait for kids to hit puberty

Maybe because the data shows the number of concussions that come from introducing checking earlier?

It's a nice dream to think "kids at age 10 will learn to protect themselves, take a hit, hit responsibly, learn balance and body positioning".

It's a harsh reality that these kids aren't that well coordinated, don't know how to use their bodies, and are tired because daddy had them at power skating at 6am every day this week because that's what it takes to make the show, and by god when you get out there you better hit somebody, and by the way they'd rather be watching cartoons anyways. That's not a situation conducive to learning how to hit correctly.