Many hockey players find it challenging to play consistently with confidence in pressure situations. Mental Toughness Training wants to change that! MTT Hockey helps you build your confidence and excel under high-pressure situations. So you can be at your best every time you step onto the ice.
Develop a Mental Preperation Process
Create your own mental preperation process for practices and games that will move you closer to your dream and mission. Planning, instead of hoping, and learning to focus on the right things at the right times will eliminate the worries, fears, anxieties, and obstacles that are a part of life and hockey.
Build Your Confidence and Perform Your Best Under Pressure
Every hockey player on the planet struggles with their confidence at times; it doesn’t matter what level of hockey you are playing. Your greatest challenge is to perform consistently and confidently in high-pressure situations. Get powerful solutions to improve your confidence and perform under pressure.
Understand & manage your emotions
Apply the same mental toughness strategies as elite hockey players and Olympians to manage your emotions and perform well under pressure. When managed properly, your emotions are valuable tools. Recognize unhelpful emotions, manage them, and redirect to powerful and productive thoughts that help you play to your potential when it matters the most.
Mental Toughness Training (MTT) is your A-to-Z blueprint for building confidence and improving your mental strength.
Your Coaches
Dave Jones
Super Dave is a hockey and sport psychology coach, with two national championship rings at the ACHA and Youth levels. Super Dave has coached multiple National Championship winning teams. From ACHA Division 1 Women Ice Hockey National Championship in 2019, to U14 Tier II Junior Hurricanes National Championship in 2019. In 2019, he coached six teams, where four of them went to National Tournament, and two of them won!
Before coaching championship winners, Dave spent most of his early childhood and adult life in and out of hockey rinks around the world. His love and skill for hockey led to a professional career in Europe playing in many countries, including Luxemburg, Russia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Germany.
With his years of hockey experience and Masters of Science in Counseling Sport Psychology from California Southern University, Dave is dedicated to bringing out the best in athletes. Dave has worked with business executives and athletes in the NHL, NFL, and CrossFit to achieve their vision by developing mental skills training and enhancing emotional awareness techniques.
Dr. Wally Bzdell
Doc Wally has spent a lifetime in our game. He played junior hockey in the BCHL (captain his final season) and college hockey at Union College.
Doc brings 24+ years of mental toughness training experience in hockey, to this program. His work includes teams making the NCAA D1 tournament 11 times, advancing to the NCAA Division 1 men’s ice hockey Frozen Four in 2012, 2014, 2015, and 2019; and winning the National Championship back to back in 2014 and 2015!
NCAA D1 teams he’s worked with have won regular-season titles in the ECAC and Hockey East, as well as four ECAC tournament Championships (three men’s and one women’s title).
At the pro level, Doc served as the sport psychologist for an AHL team, and he’s helped over 20 players advance to the NHL (including a Stanley Cup finalist). He’s worked closely with three American Hockey League all-stars (including a league MVP winner) and seven players who have represented their countries in the World Junior Hockey Championships.
Doc Wally is a NYS licensed psychologist and USA Hockey level 5 coach. He’s coached a team to a NYS championship and currently coaches at the 14U AAA and high school levels.