You’ll look for the best biggest player and you know that’s the kids he’s lined up against because he wants to compete caden just wants to be the best my favorite memories where i scored five goals in one game most kids would want to be on their video games or with their
Friends and caden shoots pucks and stick handles and works on his balance and it’s just what he wants to do his goal is to make it to the nhl and he’s going to do whatever it takes to get there i played the game of hockey at fairly high
Levels and i was nowhere close to where he is my name is kaden i’m nine years old and i play hockey Very good my dad bought me the board for christmas so i practiced it for about a month i tried to do hockey stuff on it and i got it down my dad just started posting videos on instagram and it went viral everyone started reaching out it was getting tons of likes and retweets
And pretty soon the nhl reached out to me the next day and asked they could share it and they said we want the hockey world to know caden and they know kaden now so it’s been pretty amazing to see that’s right chris best that you’ll see today a local kid going viral and
Possibly a future stanley cup champ on the rise here in this video and look at this kid he is locked in way to go young sydney crosby way to go this is train that kaden does daily he gets out here and does this on his own every day you know sometimes he’s with
The ball with a puck juggling sometimes without a stick this is you know a great drill for hockey players to focus on core stability and strength but also balance and hand-eye coordination just to balance on that board alone it does take a bit of time to figure out how to
Transfer the weight and then to be able to stick handle at a at a high rate but also not looking his eyes he’s looking up very good caden’s got very strong core pop it up good control sit back attaboy good job up high reach slam up high kayden’s sister often joins
And they push each other for the workout so they do a lot of speed drills together a lot of explosive drills and also some different change of direction things like that to push each other compete they battle hard so the focus on this drill is trying to explode bring your hips through
Her being older makes it good for him protect it protect it protect it protect it now it’s nice so we’re here at northwoods zeiss center in san antonio texas working with caden on his skills having fun getting better and not really realizing it because it’s just enjoyable for him pull it over
It’s just him understanding how to push himself outside of his comfort zone if he messes up he doesn’t get discouraged he just tries it again and understands that it’s a process i practice every day a week i work on shooting and passing the puck do i think that i’ve helped him
Maybe but i think he helps himself more than anything because he just loves to do it that makes things go a lot quicker with the improvement process for him it’s not work it’s just like hey i love this game let’s have some fun skating is the number one thing in the
Game if you’re not able to create time and space for yourself at whatever level you’re at you probably won’t have too much success it’s definitely got to work on his stride and coordinating the feet to be as quick as his hands are i really like how a lot of people have a
Lot of speed and hands and i want to have that so it just motivates me to do it i think his skill set is very high so it just depends on if his love and passion for the game stays the same and it doesn’t seem to waver right now so he’s
Pretty good for his age he puts in 110 every time and that’s something that we’ve always taught our kids that if you have a positive mind and you put forth a work you can accomplish anything in life we built a ring for caden in the backyard when he was around two years
Old living in texas there’s uh one sheet of ice in san antonio so a lot of people in texas want a pool but i asked for a hockey rink and my dad built one for me catch that’s it we’ll just work on some eye hand coordination pulling the puck out of a
Traffic area and putting it under the bar all little types of things that he can work on out here that are easily translatable out onto the ice you gotta win puck battles and hockey right so you’re gonna lift my stick as soon as you lift it it’s just a quick
Lift right here low on the blade and then you fire quick not in a hurry that’s better oh boy good job living in san antonio probably has its challenges for hockey but the biggest thing we’ve taught our kids growing up is just put in the work whatever you do if it’s school religion
Family sports is if you work at something hard enough and you form good habits at a young age you’re going to be successful whatever you do and so with caden and hockey he’s done this since he was two three years old most parents are reading bedtime stories
To kids and we would have to suit up as goalie inside the house and have him take shots on us or we would have to take shots on him he loves the game and he wanted to have the extra practice didn’t think as a kid from canada i’d
End up in san antonio but this is where we are and we’re going to make the best of it he’s a leader he leads by example and he wants to just strive and do the best things that make me most proud of our son is just he’s a great kid and over
Sports over anything he’s just a good person he’s got a great heart and we’re very proud of him notice off means that every day you put in work and you put on all the fun stuff after oh
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