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Hockey Skate Training, Drills, Power, Speed Instruction
Hockey Strong....2 months or less!
How to Hockey Skate
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can EditHockey skating is more aggressive than figure skating and not as fast as speed skating. Here's how to do it properly.
Steps
- Buy hockey skates. Hockey skates are made to be tough and form to your foot and ankle and to add support to your skating.
- Get a feel for the skates. Make sure that they fit well and don't wobble or buckle when you skate.
- Gain speed. Do not keep your blades straight when you push. Try turning them to the side so you have more surface area pushing you ahead.
- Get low. Squat as you skate, bending your knees as though sitting in a chair%u2014this will cause your legs to get more of a stride helping you go faster. Also, you will survive a check better.
- Balance. Think about the positioning of your feet. Try to keep them shoulder length apart.
- Lean forward. Leaning back will cause you to place your weight towards the back of you, causing you to fall.
- Keep your head and eyes up. Your body tends to go where your eyes go, so keep your eyes forward.
- Skate Hard. Hockey is about 90 percent skating. Skate hard and stop hard.
Tips
- Practice, practice, practice.
- Your skates have two edges to the blade: inside and outside. You must master the use of both edges to learn to skate and maneuver like a hockey player.
- Practice using your inside edges. While facing forward, keep one foot facing forward, and cut a "C" into the ice with the other foot. Then use the opposite foot. Keep alternating. You will be propelling yourself down the ice using the "inside edges" of your skates. Really dig into the ice.
- Practice using your outside edges. Make exaggerated cross overs. Swing your right foot way over your left, and then swing your left foot way over your right. Continue to alternate down the ice stepping one foot way over the other in exaggerated cross overs. You are propelling yourself down the ice using the "outside edges" of your skates.
Warnings
- Wear a helmet. Ice is hard.
- Wear gloves. Blades are sharp and another player could step on your fingers.
Article provided by wikiHow, a wiki how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Hockey Skate. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.
Ultimate Hockey Program....former NHL and World Player!
How to Become a Hockey Player
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can EditHockey is a challenging sport, which requires you to know how to skate. If you want to be a hockey player, read on.
Steps
- Learn how to skate. The point isn't just to hit the puck in the goal, but it's also to skate around fast while dodging other players. Make sure your skates fit; you can't go around tripping and falling. Make sure you have speed and power, with or without the puck.
- Master the art of stickhandle. You have to know how to hold your stick, or you won't even be able to hit the puck. He still need to skate fast, while also taking control of your hockey stick. You need to you use your stick for offensive and defensive purposes. Learn how to swing at the puck with a lot of power. But don't over do it, you don't want to get kicked out your first match for hitting an opponent with the stick.
- Sign up for an ice hockey program whether it's at school, a recreation center, with your friends, or even at a club. You have to be on a team to get more fun and practice out of it.
- Try out for leagues. You have to show your skill, and everything you have learned. Make sure you know how to play hockey. If you want to raise your skill, you have to play with the best.
- Enter off-season camps. These camps will help you learn special moves and tricks, as well as improving your game and making new friends or teammates.
- Practice. That's the only thing it takes to improve. Make sure you have extra ice time, like the pond at your school, or recreation center, or even your local pond. You need to practice to be the best hockey player you can be, and to even show off your skill.
Tips
- Watch hockey on TV. This will help you know about famous players, what they do to be better, and their own tricks.
- To show off, learn how to do a very talented slapshot.
Warnings
- Hockey is a very dangerous activity. Make sure you are wearing protective gear everytime you go out.
Things You'll Need
- Hockey stick
- Skates
- Protective gear
- A cup
- Lots of courage
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Secret to being a Dominant Hockey Player!
How to Hockey Power skate
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can EditLearn to skate like an NHL pro! How fast do you want to skate? How many goals do you want to score? This information you're about to read will show you the technical aspects you can use to assist your mastery of power skating and hockey posture. These facts, if applied, will make you even faster and give you more energy, balance, and agility.
Steps
- Get into hockey posture. Bend knees to a position where the lower part of the upper leg is perpendicular to the ice (90 degrees). Skates are shoulder width apart. The back is straight, and the chest upright. Bend at the hips, shoulders back, the upper body leaning forward (50 degrees), and hold your stick with two hands.
- Hold your stick correctly. If you are right-handed, place your left hand at the top of your stick (the butt end) and place your right elbow to your left hand. That is the standard distance your hands should be apart while stick handling and shooting wrist shots. Hold the stick slightly forward.
- Keep your eyes forward, looking peripherally at the puck. If you lose sight of the puck, your head and neck might be too far back and your eyes up too high.
- Master the stride. From a moving position, keep a low knee bend and keep your feet moving. Acceleration becomes explosive because you are already in a stellar position where your knee bend is low and now you just have to move your feet faster. This allows for instant acceleration from gliding speed to top speed.
- Keep your leg at an angle of at least 90 degrees or slightly lower (at top speed). The upper leg angle from which you can get the most powerful push is not 90 but around 120 degrees. Solid skaters should be in a position to push hardest at approximately 120 degrees (your butt should be really low). So if you retract your leg to an angle of 120 degrees to start from, and open up your knee bend to drive your leg hard, you would be past the knee angle (120 degrees) which will provide you with the most powerful leg drive.
- Return skates across your center of gravity after fully extending stride. Grab your stick, blade side up, with your right hand, and place it between your chest pads. There you will see your center of gravity: the line from your naval to the floor/ice.
- Retract your leg to cross this imaginary line after you fully extend.
- Bring the retracting leg back in underneath and across the center of gravity. When a player retracts his leg across the center of gravity, all the energy he uses to pull that leg back in is used to help drive the other leg out when the retracting leg comes across the center of gravity, almost touching the heel of the other skate. During a sprint for the puck, then the legs should be retracted across the center of gravity.
- Complete a full extension of the stride. Fully retract your legs.
- Keep heels as close to the ice as possible while skating for maximum efficiency!
Tips
- Hockey Position and Technical skating points to remember:
- Constant knee bend (knees at least 2 inches over toes)
- Going wide, hold full extension
- Keep feet close to the ice, rather than wasting energy kicking up heels.
- Return skates underneath body on return of stride
- Upper body posture: back straight, bent at hips, shoulders back head and eyes are up.
- Arm swing (forwards and back rather than side to side)
- Cornering (with shoulder facing out)
- After you've been skating a while, always bust your ass when you wanna go fast. As in anything you do, its 90% mental. Your size, or length of legs isnt all of it. You're a brain with a body, not a body with a brain. Challenge your legs whenever you skate, make it hurt(in the good way) and you will be a faster, more conditioned skater, guaranteed.
Warnings
- Always wear full protective gear while skating, practicing, and playing hockey!
- Skate with someone or in a place with more people than yourself so that if you get injured you will not be alone.
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