. . . quality over quantity . . . if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right . . . individual focus takes into account different learning styles, as well as different playing styles . . . praise and a positive environment promotes learning.

These beliefs translate to a maximum 3-to-1 student to instructor ratio. It means a goalie might not get 1000's of shots during a five day session. Instead, they may get only 500 because Goalcrease Summer Academy instructors will be constantly teaching, demonstrating, reinforcing personal strengths, and constructively correcting mistakes in the fundamentals as soon as they’re spotted.

It also means that every certified Goalcrease trainer is carefully and thoughtfully taught to achieve specific training goals:

• Create a positive learning environment
• Treat each student respectfully and individually
• Expect respectful behavior from each student
• Accommodate and teach different goalkeeping styles and when to use
• Enhance and reinforce each goalie’s individual strengths
• Focus on the basic fundamentals of goalkeeping
• Repeat those basic fundamentals
• Provide immediate correction – constructively
• Turn the basic fundamentals into habit
• Turn hockey lessons into life's lessons when applicable and/or appropriate