To kick off 2023, Aaron Wilbur welcomed Pyry Lukkarila, Head of Coach Development for the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, onto the Glass & Out Podcast. The discussion centred around why coach education must always precede player development, why nothing is accomplished without good player-coach communication, and why alignment is critical to an effective development process.
For us, a big factor in if a podcast episode was successful or not is in the feedback we receive from it. The day this episode was posted on The Coaches Site, Wilbur’s phone started buzzing. He got three texts from coaches asking a similar question.
The next day, the same thing: five coaches reached out via text, email and phone, to inquire about the same topic.
By day three, nearly 20 people had touched base with Wilbur looking for the answer to a simple question: what are the 10 Golden Rules Coach Lukkarila mentioned on the podcast?!
For those unfamiliar with this, listen to the episode below to get caught up!
Well, we reached out to Lukkarila and said we’ve had an overwhelming demand for his 10 Golden Rules, would he share them with us? His email reply: I can go through what they are, but not too deeply on how we implement them!
“This is nothing fancy,” Lukkarila warned as we started our Zoom chat. “There’s no magic pill here. The magic pill lies in what these rules represent.”
And with that, the 40-year-old from Jyväskylä, Finland, dove into his first set of Golden Rules: 10 Golden Rules for Offensive Play.
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Derek Jory is the Director of Content at The Coaches Site. He previously spent 14 seasons with the Vancouver Canucks as their head writer and social media expert.
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