Known throughout the hockey world as "Coach Chic", Dennis Chighisola is an ice hockey coach of 40+ years -- having worked with players from beginners to pros.
Dennis holds USA Hockey's highest coaching certification as a Level 5, Master Coach, he has a BS in Physical Education & Coaching, and has studied around the world, including in the old USSR at the Moscow Institute for Sport & Physical Culture.
Coach Chic is also an inventor, an author a video producer, and lectures occasionally at hockey seminars.
My main website is CoachChic.com
Given his comfort with most digital media, Dennis can easily assist individuals, teams and hockey organizations with their hockey problems from long distance.
Besides the paid ($9.97 per month) membership area, CoachChic.com also includes quite a few free advice packed articles and videos under the Free to Non-members area.
Perhaps at least partly due to growing up as a coach's son, Dennis Chighisola has always loved solving hockey problems.
Long ago studies in Moscow of the old Soviet Union still influece Coach Chic's rather outside the box approach to hockey skills training and problem solving.
Dennis' favorite college course, Principles of Motor Learning, forms the basis for much of his success in making complex hockey skills easy to learn.
After 40-years of active head coaching -- at every level of youth hockey, in high school, Juniors and college, and after running some of the most successful hockey clinics and summer hockey schools in Massachusetts and surrounding states, Dennis Chighisola has semi-retired from the ice to primarily teaching online.
In more recent years, CoachChic.com has evolved as one of the greatest membership advice websites in the world (now including over 700 articles, audio programs and videos).
While available, hockey enthusiasts have access to a free 7-part video series called "You Don't Need Ice!"
Dennis' two books -- "The Nature of Our Game: Ice Hockey" and "How to Coach A Young Hockey Team" are now available online.
A fun and challenging collection of drills and easily made training aids are available as Coach Chic's Chopped Stix.
Please use the contact form linked at the to of CoachChic.com, "Ask The Coach". Thereafter, we might correspond through email or telephone, as the need dictates. I truly would like to hear from hockey folks.
~ Dennis Chighisola