What is two way hockey?

Two way hockey players have traditionally been those who play both offense and defense. Christopher Cahill’s mission (grafted from Dr. Yasha Smushkin’s idea in his Zero to Hockey Hero book 1) reimagines ‘two way hockey’ as play with two dimensional stick skill. Christopher and his students are the first to practice two way hockey since Gordie Howe and Bill Durnan. Judging by the way the game is played currently one assumes two way hockey play is impossible. The following clips show history…

Clips catalogue last updated 2.20.25

Make history— how?

Incrementally. With fluid two way hockey play as the goal (utilizing the more advantageous handedness moment to moment), Christopher consistently demonstrates two way hockey in practice with non-linear, combinatorial individual skills for players to emulate. So they can play the game, deploy new tactical solutions, and achieve their highest potentials. The roots of this approach lie in Hockey Agility.

What is Hockey Agility?

agil·​i·​ty | the ability to be quick and graceful

Dr. Yasha Smushkin, a National Team figure skating coach for the former Soviet Union, pioneered a skill development system known as hockey agility that pursued a perfection of the form. It produced roughly 40 NHL players and numberless first principled or perfect law students. Among them Christopher Cahill trained. He mastered Smushkin’s principles. Christopher broadened hockey agility by integrating two dimensional stick skill into hockey practice. He is the creator of Two Way Hockey Agility carrying on the Hockey Agility lineage.