I have been saying for quite a while now that I will do my best to try to run a floorball blog (more specifically about floorball goaltending) for quite a while now but I just haven't had the energy to do the work as it takes a lot more effort to write in English. However now feels like a good time to give it a try so here goes!
First of all I feel like it's necessary for me to introduce (or reintroduce) myself since this feels like a fresh start. My name is Pontus, I'm a 26 year old floorball goaltending coach from Sweden and I currently run a blog on the Swedish online floorball platform Innebandymagazinet. I have been coaching floorball on different levels for almost ten years and now I am very happy and proud to be able to say that I am actually making a living off floorball.
Målvaktsfokus started out as a blog (this exact domain) and is my company with which I arrange goalie camps and travel to do freelance goalie coaching. On a day to day basis I train the goalies in Pixbo Wallenstam in Gothenburg where I also work as a clerk in a floorball store called Innebandykungen. The last few years I have also tried to be active on social media (facebook.com/malvaktsfokus) and Instagram (@malvaktsfokus) and things have taken off more than I ever thought it would. However when my blog was moved to Innebandymagazinet (being a Swedish site) I started blogging in Swedish instead of both English and Swedish like I did before.
As I have met more and more people all over the world through freelancing it feels like a good time to start writing in English again, so that's what I'm going to try to do here. I will post about floorball goalie training, about goalies/floorball in general and sometimes I will simply write updates on what's going on at that moment.
The challenge for me will be to keep two separate blogs going at the same time so please keep that in mind if sometimes it takes a long time for me to post something. I can't say how often I will be posting, but I will try to write every now and then.
I have some ideas in mind for a series of posts about floorball goaltending and goalie training but I am very interested to hear if anyone reading has something they would like me to write about or discuss. If you have something you're wondering about or are curious of, please let me know and I will try to be of help!
This has been a very general post just to let you non-swedish speakers know that I will try to get this going again. There will be a test period for a while to see what kind of response the blog gets and if it feels like people are interested I will most likely be motivated to keep going.
We will see what happens I guess! That's all for now.
Thank you!
//Pontus
Awesome to see that you are doing this. I am looking forward to read about your thoughts on goaltending.
SvaraRaderaI hope to see you write about the mental side of goaltending and how you work on the mental aspects of the game with your goalies.
-Fox