There is no other way.
It’s the end of August.
The waiting is over.
The summer training block is almost behind you.
Tryouts are here.
Practices are starting.
Rosters are about to be made.
It’s officially time to get savage.
What does that mean?
It means walking into your next workout and laying it all on the line.
It means doing the extra bag skate after your ice session when everybody else is ready to head home.
It means taking that last rep when your legs are burning.
It means showing up to your next practice, training session, or tryout with one attitude:
Nobody is going to stop me.
Not fatigue.
Not nerves.
Not another player competing for your spot.
Not the pressure.
Not the expectations.
You’re going to do whatever it takes to make an impact.
To catch the coach’s eye.
To make the scouts notice.
To get your name on that roster.
Because this is what you’ve been preparing for.
All summer long, players have been training.
June.
July.
August.
And believe it or not, some players have already peaked.
They trained hard early.
They looked great in July.
Maybe they were flying in the first week of August.
But now?
They’re tired.
They’re flat.
They’re ready for a break at the exact moment they need another gear.
Not you.
You’re coming into your savage form right now.
Right when it matters.
And if there’s one thing I want you to realize this week, it’s this:
You are running out of training days.
That’s not a bad thing.
That’s fuel.
Because when you know there are only so many opportunities left before the puck drops for real, you stop wasting them.
You attack them.
Every skate matters.
Every workout matters.
Every rep matters.
Every touch of the puck matters.
There’s no time to coast through a session thinking you’ll make it up tomorrow.
Today is the day.
But getting savage doesn’t mean being stupid.
The season ahead is long.
Five months from now, seven months from now, maybe eight months from now, you still want to be playing your best hockey.
So train hard—but recover hard too.
Stretch.
Foam roll.
Sleep.
Hydrate.
Take care of your body.
Prepare yourself not just to make the team…
Prepare yourself to still be standing when the games matter most.
Because the goal isn’t to be savage for one tryout.
The goal is to be savage all season.
To be there in the final weeks.
In the playoffs.
In the biggest games.
And maybe, when it’s all over, standing there holding a trophy and realizing that the dream you started chasing back in June became something real.
So keep your knuckles up.
Go the extra mile.
Take the extra rep.
Stay on the ice a little longer.
And get savage.
One of the easiest ways to keep sharpening your game away from the rink is to keep getting touches with the Puckaround.
It’s built to give you the feel of a real puck on off-ice surfaces, so the work you’re putting in in the garage, driveway, or basement can translate when you step back onto the ice.
Ten minutes before school.
A few hundred touches after practice.
A quick session when everyone else is done for the day.
Those reps add up.
And when the puck finds your stick in the biggest moment of your season, you want your hands to already know exactly what to do.
[Grab your Puckaround and keep getting your touches →]
The season is almost here.
It’s time to get savage.
Knuckles up,
Bobby Robins, 500+ pro games, one mission.