Downloads

EPUB — for reading offline

The best format for reading on a phone: it reflows to your screen and font size, and works in Apple Books, Google Play Books, KOReader and most e-readers. Cross-references between documents stay inside the file, so the links still work with no signal.

• The complete corpus — All 38 documents, in reading order.
• Getting Started — Before everything else
• Foundation — Read these first
• Positions — Where do I stand and what is my job?
• Systems and Situations — How five players act as one
• Technique — How do I physically execute it?
• Hockey IQ — How do I read the play and decide?
• Off the Ice — Underneath all five layers

PDF — for printing

Fixed layout, printed from the same stylesheet your browser uses for Cmd-P. Good for paper and for reading on a large screen; poor on a phone, where the EPUB above is the better answer. The complete corpus runs to over twelve hundred pages, so the per-section files are usually what you want.

• The complete corpus — All 38 documents, in reading order.
• Getting Started — Before everything else
• Foundation — Read these first
• Positions — Where do I stand and what is my job?
• Systems and Situations — How five players act as one
• Technique — How do I physically execute it?
• Hockey IQ — How do I read the play and decide?
• Off the Ice — Underneath all five layers

Markdown — the source

The documents exactly as they are written and reviewed, one file each. This is the truth the site and every other format are generated from. The whole repository is public if you would rather clone it: jamesdbloom/learn-ice-hockey.

manifest.json lists every generated file with its size.

Audio

One episode per document, in reading order — 37 of them, about 37 hours. They are spoken editions of the documents rather than word-for-word readings, so they are worth having alongside the text rather than instead of it. AAC in an .m4acontainer, mono, about 1.12 GB for the lot.

Subscribe

The podcast feed works in Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts and anything else that reads RSS: copy that address into your app's “add a show by URL” box. Episodes are numbered rather than dated, so your app will play them in the order the corpus is meant to be read.

The show is on Spotify too, which needs no feed address — follow that link, or search for it in the app.

Playlists

An .m3u playlist opens in VLC, Apple Music, most car stereos and almost any desktop player, and needs no account or app.

• The complete corpus — all 37 episodes, in reading order.
• Getting Started — Before everything else
• Foundation — Read these first
• Positions — Where do I stand and what is my job?
• Systems and Situations — How five players act as one
• Technique — How do I physically execute it?
• Hockey IQ — How do I read the play and decide?
• Off the Ice — Underneath all five layers

One episode at a time

Each document’s own page carries its own player. The direct files are here if you would rather keep them — on a phone, saving one to Files lets you open it in an audiobook player such as BookPlayer.

• Getting Started — Getting Started · 58 min · 29 MB
• Reading Ice Hockey Diagrams — Foundation · 53 min · 27 MB
• Rink Map — Foundation · 60 min · 30 MB
• Rules Primer — Foundation · 68 min · 34 MB
• UK and England Rules — Foundation · 60 min · 30 MB
• On-Ice Communication — Foundation · 62 min · 31 MB
• Center — Positions · 56 min · 28 MB
• Winger — Positions · 57 min · 29 MB
• Defender — Positions · 60 min · 30 MB
• Goaltender — Positions · 67 min · 34 MB
• Switching Positions — Positions · 54 min · 27 MB
• Breakouts — Systems and Situations · 57 min · 29 MB
• Zone Entries — Systems and Situations · 64 min · 32 MB
• Offensive Zone Play — Systems and Situations · 61 min · 31 MB
• Forechecking Systems — Systems and Situations · 52 min · 26 MB
• Neutral Zone Systems — Systems and Situations · 71 min · 36 MB
• Defensive Zone Coverage — Systems and Situations · 54 min · 27 MB
• Defending the Rush — Systems and Situations · 72 min · 36 MB
• Special Teams — Systems and Situations · 71 min · 36 MB
• Faceoffs — Systems and Situations · 53 min · 26 MB
• Game Management — Systems and Situations · 64 min · 32 MB
• Skating — Technique · 56 min · 28 MB
• Puck Handling — Technique · 63 min · 32 MB
• Passing and Receiving — Technique · 70 min · 35 MB
• Shooting — Technique · 68 min · 34 MB
• Body Contact and Battles — Technique · 62 min · 31 MB
• Puck Support and Spacing — Hockey IQ · 60 min · 30 MB
• Time and Space — Hockey IQ · 50 min · 25 MB
• Scanning and Anticipation — Hockey IQ · 54 min · 27 MB
• Risk Management and Decision-Making — Hockey IQ · 72 min · 36 MB
• Playing Without the Puck — Hockey IQ · 62 min · 31 MB
• Equipment — Off the Ice · 48 min · 24 MB
• Conditioning and Recovery — Off the Ice · 55 min · 28 MB
• Practice and Development — Off the Ice · 61 min · 31 MB
• The Mental Game — Off the Ice · 65 min · 33 MB
• Team Play and Culture — Off the Ice · 58 min · 29 MB
• How to Watch Hockey — Off the Ice · 52 min · 26 MB

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