They worked... he played better. He stopped more pucks.

When the quick skating forward on the other team tried to pull the puck wide on a breakaway... David was able to hold his edges and then quickly get his pad on that puck sending it directly to the corner and out of harm's way.

He surprised his teammates and coaches.  Heck... he told me "I don't even know how I did it, it was like my body was on autopilot".

He went back to YouTube and got some more videos.  WOW!  There were a lot of videos!

This time he grabbed a couple of the strength exercises and a balance drill (his coach had told him to work on his stability).  After a few weeks of working on those, guess what happened?

Yep.  He was making MORE saves.

After a month of doing the right kind of off-ice training even his coach was commenting on how much smoother he looked on the ice and other parents were asking his Mom and Dad "what have you been feeding Dave lately?".

But as he kept going back to YouTube and the interwebz and found more and more and more info, he started getting confused.

He was doing the plyometric drills and box hop ups that were supposed to give him the leg power he needed to be quicker on the ice, but then his knees were getting sore.  A lot of the stuff looked really cool, but he wasn't sure exactly which exercises were right for him.

He wasn't sure how many exercises he should do, how many sets and reps he should do of each exercise or how many days per week he should do them.

His solution was to do more.  He tried to do them everyday, but that made it hard to keep up...

He became worried that he missed something, so he kept adding more and more drills to his workout until finally, he barely had time to get it all finished.  And then he got a bit worse on the ice.

So he went back to the internet and searched for "goalie specific training plan" and he found one that delivered the right off ice training drills that improve any goalie's mobility, strength, speed, stamina, stability and hand-eye coordination.

He took his role with the team seriously, so David stuck wtih the plan and did the workouts. He found that the in-season workouts provided with the program didn't take very long to complete and they didn't leave him feeling tired and sore when he got on the ice for practice.

The off-season workouts were definitely more intense, but he could feel how they would actually help him on the ice.  

He started to see his game pick up again... only this time he didn't plateau; he continued to develop.

When the play-offs rolled around, he had earned the confidence of the coaches and his teammates.

He earned the opportunity to lead his team straight to the league championships and win it all by posting a 0-1 shutout in the final game of the series (after facing 43 shots).

Even David admits there were a fdw lucky ones and his defense did a great job clearing the few rebounds he put out in front... but you've gotta be good to be lucky sometimes right?

Do you think David was getting attention from other teams as he became more dominant in his league?

Do you think more scouts were stopping by the stands to get acquainted with David's parents?  You bet.

He was super lucky because even though his parents supported him in every way, they never pushed him in any way. When he wanted the proven goalie specific training plan they helped him get access, on one condition... that he was disciplined enough to do the work.

Well, after the results David had during just the first 2.5 months of the program and after such an amazing season, do you think David was motivated to do the work?

You've felt that before haven't you?

So yes, Dave was motivated to do the work and it is a good thing he did because he ended up getting invited to a tryout for a Junior team that was a few hours from where he lived.  It was the team he followed as a kid and always though it would be awesome to play there.

He would see their team bus on the road and think how awesome it would be to step off that buss on a road trip in his fresh looking suit.  He had dreamed of exactly what it would feel like.

He had pictured himself playing in those bigger rinks with full stands.  He could hear the crowd hold their breath and then erupt with cheering when he made a crazy second effort save on a breakaway.

He did a great job at that camp (and the other camps he was invited to) and he was invited back to their main camp at the end of the summer.

He worked all summer long to show himself and the team how much untapped potential he still had.  He worked to show them that he was a diamond in the rough and was willing to put in the work to one day shine as a member of their organization.

I wish I could tell you that he went in and made the team as a walk-on in the fall. 

He did not.

They had two older, more experienced goalies, but they did sign him out of that camp.  He got to practice with them when he could swing it during his season and once he even got to sit on the bench as the back up when they ran into some injury trouble with their goalies.

UPDATE: the NEXT season though... he was riding that bus, making those saves, playing for that team 💪

You are probably like David in many ways.

Maybe your feel like you have untapped potential, but you aren't sure of the best way to develop it.

Maybe you are currently doing some stuff that seems like it works, but you aren't really sure if it is the right stuff or the BEST stuff that you could be doing.

Maybe you are ready to be the go-to goalie for your team; you are ready to do the work, but you just want to make sure that what you are doing will pay off on the ice. 

Maybe you know that if you only had the exact right steps to follow that you could make a leap like David did.  That you could end up playing AAA, Junior, College or Pro.  Even if you are an adult goalie, you know you can be better right?

You need a program exactly like what David followed so you can show yourself (and everyone else) what's possible when you have a step-by-step road map to success.

Here's the program...