Programs and Services
We offer a variety of programming and services tailor-made to meet your desires, your needs, and your budget.
No athlete is identical. We recognize that not every athlete has the same skill level or developmental needs. A lot of training programs tend to focus on generalized programming, failing to meet the individual needs of each athlete. We know that ever athlete that comes through our program has different needs and priorities. Every program we offer is designed for a more comprehensive, personalized, and tailor-made developmental plan to achieve the athlete or the athletes true potential. By combining our personalized training with an understanding of the physiological functions of the human body and the complexity of skills necessary for playing the game of hockey we are able to build the strongest foundation in which elite talent is built upon.
Year Round Services
True Foundation Hockey is guaranteed to give you the best on-ice hockey training experience. We are committed to working on improving the deficiencies in your game and elevating your strengths to their maximum potential.
By using our very own compound movement training (CMT) curriculum where we combine a variety of different movements and skills into single sequences to strengthening the body's neuromuscular system, and applying our physiological CNS overspeed training concepts, we guarantee to provide the most comprehensive and most complete foundation for your hockey development. Our training programs will not only take you to the next level, but it will provide the confidence for you to perform at your highest form.
Whether you are seeking improvements in skating, puck handling, passing, shooting, rink awareness, hockey IQ, fundamental game/team concepts, or positional coaching True Foundation Hockey is the program to provide exactly what YOU need.
Off-Ice Development Partnership
We are so excited to announce that for the first time True Foundation Hockey is offering an off-ice developmental component through our partners at ETS Performance located in Stillwater just off Highway 36.
Available to all registered TF athletes with three different price and package options you can now couple your on-ice program with your very own off-ice development program.
2024 Off-Season Programming
Most off-season hockey training programs for women generally focuses on a handful of flow drills, small area games and scrimmaging. While these drills serve a purpose, they cannot be the foundation of an off-season training program as little to no emphasis is placed on transferable game skill development.
The focus on physical conditioning is generally a non-factor in most programs because the trainers do not have a physiological background or understanding about how the energy systems of the body work, i.e., anaerobic, aerobic and phospho-creatine and what the Central Nervous System is teaching the muscles to do through quality repetition. The True Foundation program utilizes a combination of Overspeed training techniques combined with exercises designed to overload the Central Nervous System and build hockey energy systems and neuro-muscular responses that are transferable to game situations.
This program is designed to begin the on-ice game transferable skills starting in June through August. During the spring, the athletes primary focus should be on strength and muscle mass recovery generally lost or reduced during the long season. During these months the athletes should focus on lifting weights, plyometrics, sprinting and dynamic exercises that mimic hockey movements. Playing recreational hockey and other spring sports and activities is also recommended.
In June through August, the athletes should continue their off-ice workout regimens while working on game transferable skill development through Overspeed and CNS Overload training concepts on ice. This off-season developmental plan prepares them to enter the season in peak physical and mental condition.
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Click the link below to learn all about our coaching philosophy, and what CNS overspeed training is.
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Men's Pro Off-Season Development Program
Invite Only or Upon Request
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We will continue to implement Dr. Jack Blatherwick’s Overspeed Fast Interval curriculum into the program. The focus is gaining overall speed, explosiveness, building energy systems and improving cardiovascular efficiency. Dr. Blatherwick will consult with me on the curriculum to ensure that these sessions have the physiological benefit to make permanent changes. Our curriculum will also incorporate CNS Overload exercises to get the hands to move as fast as the feet and improve multi-tasking thinking skills. CNS Overload incorporates hands and feet coordinated skills and multi movement skating patterns into high intensity interval training exercises.
Men's JUCO Off-Season Development Program
18 - 75min skill development sessions
9 - 90min 3 on 3 scrimmage sessions
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Location: Tartan Ice Arena & The LumberYard Sports Center (3 on 3 only)
Price: $990
Open to H.S. graduates, Junior and College players. Our Men's off-season program is the perfect program to keep you developing new skills, maintain your fitness level, and prepare you for the upcoming season. With the perfect blend of skill training (using our CMT curriculum and our CNS overspeed concepts) and competition, we provide a place for these young men to develop and apply new skills.
Women's Off-Season Development Program
20 - 1hr sessions
Location: Somerset Ice Arena (Ten Minutes East of St. Croix Rec. Center)
Price: $850
Women's Hockey is among the fastest growing women's sports in America. We are so proud of our Women's program success. The Majority of this programs focus is on developing explosiveness. overspeed training, and improving the speed and coordination of the hands and feet.
Boys H.S. Off-Season Development Program
20 - 1hr sessions
Location: Somerset Ice Arena (Ten Minutes East of St. Croix Rec. Center)
Price: $850
High school athletes are at the optimal age for skill development. However,
performance improvement is contingent on quality training with a primary emphasis
on physiological enhancements. Unfortunately, most on-ice/off-season hockey
training for high school athletes generally focuses on flow drills, small area games
and scrimmaging. While these drills serve a purpose, they cannot be the foundation of an off-season
training program as little to no emphasis is placed on game transferable skill
development. The focus on physical conditioning is generally a non-factor in most
on-ice programs because the trainers do not have a physiological background or
understanding about how the energy systems of the body work, i.e., anaerobic,
aerobic and phospho-creatine and what the Central Nervous System is teaching the
muscles to do through quality repetition.
Bantam Overspeed Off-season Development Program
22 - 75min sessions
Location: Tartan Ice Arena
Price: $770
This program will work on strengthening fundamental skating, puck and shooting skills, using
an Overspeed Fast Interval training curriculum. The focus is on improving stride efficiency,
speed, explosiveness, building energy systems and improving cardiovascular efficiency. The
curriculum will also incorporate Central Nervous System/CNS Overload exercises to get the
hands to move as fast as the feet and improve multi-tasking mental skills. CNS Overload
incorporates hands and feet coordinated skills and multi movement skating patterns into high
intensity interval training exercises.
Squirt/Pee-Wee Overspeed Development Program
22 - 1hr sessions
Location: Tartan Ice Arena
Price: $770
Athletes at this age are entering their window for optimal athletic skill development, so it is
important to participate in programs that are based on physiological principles. This program
will work on strengthening fundamental skating, puck and shooting skills, using an Overspeed
Fast Interval training curriculum. The focus is on improving stride efficiency and power, speed,
explosiveness, building energy systems and improving cardiovascular efficiency. The curriculum
will also incorporate Central Nervous System/CNS Overload exercises to get the hands to move
as fast as the feet and improve multi-tasking mental skills. CNS Overload incorporates hands
and feet coordinated skills and multi movement skating patterns into high intensity interval
training exercises.
Mite Foundations Off-season Development Program
10Â - 1hr sessions
Location: Tartan Ice Arena
Price: $405
Athletes at this age need to build a strong foundation of fundamental skills. Without this
foundation, success at the next level becomes more challenging. So, it is important to
participate in a program that builds this foundation for success. Our program will work on
strengthening fundamental skating and puck handling skills by using a progressive and
challenging training curriculum. We will also introduce Overspeed training exercises which
requires the athletes to perform multi-movement skating patterns as fast as possible to improve
speed, coordination and athletic movements related to hockey.
Skill Specific Hockey Schools
All Schools are 1 morning a week for 8-10 weeks
Our Hockey Schools are a concentrated and hyper specific program focused on training and developing one and only one of the three main skills of hockey: (skating, stickhandling, and shooting). Our Hockey Schools follow a progressive curriculum, where every session the athletes will build upon the foundation laid in the previous session. If you are looking to put concentrated work in and exeperience serious development in one of these three areas, our Hockey Schools are perfect for you.
School of Stickhandling
Take your hands to the next level
Our school of stickhandling is the very best program for athletes who are looking to concentrate solely on puckhandling. We take a progressive approach to our curriculum which allows the athletes to build their new skills off of a strong foundation. In addition to the on-ice work each registered athlete will also take home a weekly off-ice stickhandling homework assignment to help them refine and solidified their newly developed skills.
will be starting back up Summer 2025
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School of Skating Science
Develop power and explosiveness, learn the art edge control, and experience new speed.
It cannot be over stated the importance of good skating techniques and skills, in todays game if you desire to be play at the top level you must be a competent skater. Our School of Skating Science, takes a scientific approach as well as an athletic approach to developing skating skills. Through a deep understanding of physiology and body mechanics we not only teach you the HOW but we also educate the WHY. Following our progressive curriculum the athletes will spend weeks building their foundational skating skills, through repetition and hyper-detailed training. Slowly over the course of the program we start incorporating more complex and intensive skating movement with the intention of taking competent skaters into that elite status.
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will be starting back up summer 2025
2025 Summer programming Coming Soon
we wanted to get the early jump on our registration for next summer check back after labor day 2024, where we will have all our 2025 off-season programming posted
Pricing and Booking
We wholeheartedly believe that value trumps price. Our programming offers a value, that we believe, you cannot put a price on.
If you are looking for cheap programming you are going to get cheap results. That being said we want to be as accommodating as we possibly can if you are looking to take your game to the next level and are serious about putting in the work.
We set up all of our sessions via phone or email. If you are looking to book or have questions about pricing we ask that you send us an email and we will call you.