A rare chance for me today to watch JK in a field hockey match, as he played for Beeston against Ashby in a 'Badgers' game. Unfortunately I didn't realise that Badgers was a specialist term meaning a team comprising up to 3 adults, playing and coaching alongside juniors starting to prepare for the transition to adult hockey.
As JK is more than used to having shots fired at him from adults, he didn't really benefit from the session as much as the others, and as most of the action was at the other end of the pitch, often found himself a little bored!
He also attended the first session of a GK Academy at Beeston this weekend, coached by Grahame Mansell-Grace aka "Panda", a retired international goalee coach, and which we were very fortunate to have funded by the Club as we couldn't have afforded it on top of everything else, and then trials for the Midlands Ice Hockey Conference, in the middle of the night at the National Ice Arena (fortunately Simon is taking him to that one!)
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