About Next Level Power Skating
Challenge Through Intensity
Designed for teens and adults, Next Level Power Skating clinics should be described as more of an on-ice workout than a practice. This program provides an intensely challenging way to develop the skating ability of intermediate-advanced skaters while pushing the physical limits of both players and referees alike.
Development Through Variety
Blending technical instruction with high intensity interval-based workout structure, each clinic is unique, providing new technical challenges that build a wide variety of skating skills as the clinic series moves along.
Confidence Through Repetition
By offering specific drills as part of a circuit, each athlete is provided repeated opportunities to develop the muscle memory that turns focused technique into unconscious habit.
What Should I Expect?
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Expect to work. Next Level Power Skating is likely going to be unlike anything you've ever done on the ice before. What you get out of this program entirely depends on what you put into it...but I will push you to your physical limits.
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Expect to get out of your current skating comfort zone. Many drills are going to include techniques and movements that are designed to fine tune and challenge every aspect of your stride.
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Expect to see both players and referees on the ice. My program is open to both sides of the hockey world and for anyone who wants to improve their skating.
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Rarely are pucks going to be used. The focus of these clinics is to build your skating technique to further develop power, agility and endurance. Pucks are phased in for players who have first mastered various drills without one.
Who Benefits from Next Level Power Skating?
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Clinics are designed to push you to your next level. Whether you are an average skater looking to get better, or a good skater looking to become great, this program will give you the tools to get there.
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At these clinics, you are your own competition. In pushing yourself to do more repetitions each circuit, you will see that your power and efficiency increases each time you come to work.
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While exceptions are made, the Next Level Power Skating Program was designed for teens and adults who will most benefit from an interval style workout.
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Current NLPS athletes include A, AA, AAA and area high school players, as well as referees from the local, Junior A and minor-professional ranks.
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NLPS is a physically intense on-ice training program that does require a certain level of proficiency to be effective. It is NOT a program for beginner skaters.
ABOUT OUR COACHES
Our Coaches
Jameson Gronert
Lead Instructor/NLPS Founder
Through 16+ years of officiating at all levels of the game under the NHL, I gained the opportunity to train alongside some of the best referees in the world. And after nearly 2 decades of teaching power skating for various programs throughout the country in the off-season, I created Next Level Power Skating to offer something more skating-focused and physically intense than traditional power skating. I've been certified as a Level 4 official for 11 seasons, am a certified USA hockey coach, and I have run clinics for Robert Morris University, Robby Glantz, the USA Hockey Central District Development Camp and the local officiating development program.. As a program, Next Level Power Skating has been used by PREP, Fenwick and the Lyons Township High School clubs the last 2 years.
While actively pursuing Personal and Group Fitness Training certifications through the National Academy of Sports Medicine, with specializations in Youth Exercise, Performance Enhancement and Behavior Change, Next Level Power Skating is the product of years spent working alongside some of the best power skating instructors in the world, a personal passion for fitness, and years spent studying the strides and mechanics of both amateur and professional athletes.
I grew up in Palatine and played hockey for the Northwest Chargers, Palatine High School, DePaul University and then became a referee where I have worked in the NAHL, USHL, NCAA, ECHL, and AHL.
Eric Arrigo
Power Skating Instructor
Eric grew up in Des Plaines, Illinois and started his hockey career with the Niles Rangers and Northwest Chargers while also being a referee since 12 years old with IHOA. He began officiating Junior and College hockey at age 16 when he received his level 4 certification from USA Hockey. Starting at 17, he played on various Junior A teams throughout the midwest.
After his playing career ended he competed internationally in the Red Bull Crashed Ice (Ice Cross Downhill World Championship) and raced in the US, Canada, Finland, France and Japan. Now Eric is a full-time hockey official working in the SPHL (Southern Professional Hockey League), USHL (United States Hockey League), NAHL (North American Hockey League), NA3HL and local hockey around the Chicagoland area.
Giving back to the game of hockey is something super important to Eric and he has been involved with the IHOA Mentor Program, AHIHA (Hearing Impaired Hockey), Blind Hockey, Wounded Warriors, Puck Cancer, Guns Vs Hoses and he loves teaching power skating to anyone willing to put in the effort to improve.