Free Ringette Tips
Free Ringette Tips by Lisa Brown
How To Be A Fierce Checking Machine in Ringette
Perfect Gap Control While Forechecking By Lisa Brown If you're smart about gap control when forechecking, you'll become a fierce checking machine. To steal the ring 1 vs. 1, you'll want to carefully control the gap - how much space there is between you and the ring...
How to Deliver A Devastating Sweep Check
By Laura Warner The sweep check is pretty sweet... but it’s tricky. I can still remember the first time I did a successful sweep check at ringette camp. Check out Team Canada Ringette star Colleen Hagan doing a wicked demo of it. But when you do, notice the fine...
How to Boost Your Child’s Confidence in Ringette – Instantly!
By Lisa Brown I personally think that most parents feel a very powerful desire to boost the confidence of their children. If you watch parents with their children, particularly after they’ve just played a ringette game or excelled at school, you can SEE IT. Maybe...
Get Your Daughter To Be More Aggressive In Ringette Provincials
By Lisa Brown Q. How can I get my daughter to be more aggressive during ringette provincials? She’s talented, but sometimes she’s passive when she should just go for the ring. A. This is the question I’m asked most often by ringette parents. I love the question...
Calm Your Nerves for Ringette Try-outs
By Lisa Brown If you're like me, ringette tryouts make you nervous. They can be ESPECIALLY nerve-racking if you have a new coach or team to impress. But, nerves can be a positive thing IF you know how to make them work for you. So I rounded up some good advice for...
A nifty little trick your Ringette team can use to score more goals in Ringette
By Lisa Brown It’s called screening the goalie. You create a screen when your player stands in front of the other team’s goalie so she can’t see the shot. I’ll bet you’ve heard of it. BUT: I’ll also bet you aren’t using it as often as you could be. Even my team’s...
Goalies: How to Find the “Sweet Spot”in Your Net
(Skaters, you might pick up a few ideas from this too!) One of the biggest challenges for goalies is to find the "sweet spot" in their crease. If you are a few inches too far out, players will deke your pants off. If you are a few inches too deep, players will rifle...
How to Stop Breakaways – For Ringette Goalies
By Lisa Brown It’s time to check in with that ever so special group of ringette players known as the goalies. Recently, I was chatting with Leanne Fedor, who played goalie for the Canadian Ringette team from 2002-2007. I asked her how ringette goalies like her are so...
How Goalies Distribute the Ringette Ring with Laser-Like Accuracy
By Leanne Fedor and Lisa Brown The secret to good distribution is practice, patience, and reading the ice. I have learned that during a 5 second count there are 2 windows to distribute the ringette ring successfully. Option #1 is the immediate quick pass (in the first...
How to Get Smart in Ringette
By Lisa Brown I'm on a bit of a rant right now... I recently watched the aa Ringette Tournament put on by Zone 5 Ringette, and there were moments when I was disappointed by what I saw. I saw many ringette players with great talent making mistakes they could have...
