Essex Vermont Youth Hockey

Purpose: Measures starting quickness and explosive acceleration.

Purpose: Measure explosive power, agility, quickness, acceleration and deceleration.

Players will go twice -- once each way. Their result will be the average of their two times.

Purpose: Measure agility and movement skills, forward and backard skating.

Focus: Fluidity and smoothness assists skaters in expending less energy , resulting in a quicker time.

Purpose: Evaluate aerobic powerand endurance, muscle endurance, skating speed and efficiency and ability to recover.

Becuase it is a rigorous test this test will only be administered, in this form, to PeeWee and above players.  A modified version may be administered to Squirts and under but mostly to help track improvement over the season and from season to season. 

This test takes two minutes to administer, and multiple players will be assesed at the same time.  Two minutes are put up on the rink scoreboard which is started at the beginning of the first sprint.  Players  are also hand timed in completing a goal line to goal line, and timed  back to origional zone blue line sprint.  The player then has what remains of athe first 30 seconds of the scoreboard clock timer to rest.  Thus, at 1:30 on the scoreboard clock they start their second sprint (also hand timed).  The player repeats four sprints, using the entire two minutes. [Note: This is easier to understand watching the video]. 

This test will have three results for each player:

• The speed index -- fastest measured time goal line to goal line.
• The total time for the four repetitions will represent the players anerobic endurance.
• The drop off index, from the time difference between the fastest and the slowest repetitions. (usually the difference between the first and last rep).  This is an indication of anaerobic fitness.