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Build Your Game - Minnesota Hockey Training

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When owner, Dave Perri, decided to create Build Your Game he wanted it to be the entire package in hockey training all in one place. By offering professional skill and strength instruction, small class sizes, one-on-one attention, and a fun atmosphere both on and off the ice, Build Your Game has become a popular place for players of all ages to take their game to the next level.

Check out our staff bios below!

Dave Perri

The owner with real experience.

Dave Perri is the creator of Build Your Game, as well as the head skill developer. He’s been teaching his unique skill training curriculum for four years now with great success. Dave’s own hockey career included playing junior A, division 3, and division 1 college hockey, giving him firsthand knowledge of what it takes to succeed at the higher levels. However, Dave is not simply an ex-hockey player turned skill instructor. He is a very experienced, very intelligent teacher of hockey skills. His ability to relate to players and transfer his knowledge of hockey technique is what sets him apart from the competition. The drills he’s designed over his years of hockey training are purposeful and help shape technique. Dave takes pride in designing each off-ice training session in such a way that he can watch each player’s technique closely, correcting them when needed. Every player who works with Dave receives a lot of personal, 1-on-1.

As a kickboxing and group fitness instructor, Dave runs high intensity workouts that ensure everyone works up a sweat every single time that they train with him. In his kickboxing classes, he teaches proper technique and pushes the pace to create a core building, fat burning, and heart rate accelerating experience. In his group fitness classes he keeps things interesting by varying up the routine to include slideboard training, medicine ball training, sledgehammer training, balance ball training, and many other fun and interesting forms of working out.

Mike Perri

The coach with a track record.

Mike Perri has coached AAA/elite teams for the past 13 years with great success. Every year he takes an elite team, called The Starz of Minnesota, up to Toronto to compete in one of the most highly scouted tournaments in North America, called the “Prospects” tournament. An impressive 84% of Starz alumni have gone on to play junior A, college, or pro hockey, including 4 players who have played or currently play in the NHL.

Mike has been general manager of Build Your Game for the past two years. Parents/ players can feel free to talk to him about anything related to Build Your Game, hockey careers, or hockey in general. In fact, if you’re looking to speak to someone from Build Your Game during the evening hours, Mike is always the one to call since Dave is generally busy running training sessions at those times.

Fitness 1st Trainers

The trainers who put fitness first.

Build Your Game’s off-ice training facility shares space with Fitness 1st Personal Training Studio. Together, they create a 6,500 sq. ft. hub of training and fitness related activity. When Build Your Game needs to train whole teams of hockey players in our off-ice facility, we call on professional, certified personal trainers from Fitness 1st to handle the strength and conditioning side of the workout. This way, every element of Build Your Game’s off-ice training is supervised by a professional and never sacrifices quality.