USA Hockey Promoting $300 Video Game?

[mdamson 0]

USA hockey is promoting a $300 video game called intelligym to reduce concussion risks. $200 if you sign up 10 players. Plus the software license expires after 1 year. Watch the demo. It reminds me of the old Galaga/Centipede days. If USA hockey is really serious about reducing concussions, and this method does work; you would think the price would be lower.

Intelligym

[AIREAYE 248]

So basically you're learning hockey sense, an innate ability, by driving a spaceship and carrying bombs?

[Chadd 916]

USA Hockey will do endorse anything they're paid to endorse. It's not cheap supporting those national teams.

[hampshirepuck 2]

just checked it out myself... the game quality looked like it was a addicting games.com game.

http://www.usahockeyintelligym.com/

[pbhockey4 0]

Doesnt look that bad just too bad I am never going to play NCAA hockey. I am only a beer league player.

[Joshison 1]

This game looks like an exact copy of a game called uniball http://www.uniballhq.com/ which is a multiplayer game.

[Konig von Kuhlem 0]

This game looks like an exact copy of a game called uniball http://www.uniballhq.com/ which is a multiplayer game.

- that's so true! Other than not being confined in a hockey rink like the training program, it looks the same and is free.

I wonder if that IntelliGym works as they claim...

[regularjoe 1]

I'll admit it and say I've taken the plunge and have been trying the Intelligym for about five months or so. I'd like to set some context to my review.

My background is an adult beer leaguer. Played tons of street hockey (old school with sneakers and the Mylec sticks with the fiberglass blades with holes in them) through high school and some recreational floor hockey in my 20s but didn't take up the real deal until five years ago in my early 30s.

So it's fair to say I don't have a ton of experience as a youth to draw upon. I didn't receive -any- kind of formal coaching until I started skating and playing as an adult. Since I've started, I've taken clinics and private lessons (power skating and hockey) year round as my schedule allows and skill-wise, am about upper C/lower B level locally.

It took a little while but I think it does help with the mental aspects of the game. I feel like I have been picking my head up more and doing a better job of anticipating movements of individual players as well as how the play develops overall.

There are some exercises I don't like (there is a drill where you get docked for making contact with other ships or the wall - this is hockey isn't it?) and I feel like the scoring/improvement metrics aren't transparent enough (my score goes down from session to session but the improvement graph still trends up).

Overall, I wouldn't say this is a magic bullet where you can do it on its own without actual on-ice training or something where you will see huge gains immediately but from what I have done so far, I feel like it's a viable tool in the training toolbox for those of us looking for different ways to improve.

I took a brief look at Uniball and from what I have seen (take this with a grain of salt as I have not downloaded Uniball), it is not quite the same.

Anyways, that's my brief two cents. I'd be willing to answer any questions folks may have.

[goosedennis 0]

USA Hockey itself is a joke. They take checking out of peewee because it's "too dangerous." If they actually taught kids at a young age how to respect other teammates and opponents, and how to check/take checks, then you wouldn't see these severe spinal injuries happening that much because people would actually keep their heads up.