| In ice hockey, skating can make or break you. Here | | | | power when the knee straightens.Top athletes, |
| are the 4 fundamentals to becoming a top performing | | | | especially outstanding track stars, recognize the |
| ice hockey skater, plus 4 extra techniques to push you | | | | importance of leg power and do something about it. |
| right over the edge!1. A solid, well-balanced stance is | | | | They use a principle of training known as over-load. |
| basic to any degree of speed you want to attain. If | | | | And you can use your own form of it, too. Here are |
| you will work on your starts, stops, and turns as | | | | some methods of over- loading:1. Drive yourself all out |
| described, you will be well on your way to good | | | | as long as you are on the ice during scrimmage. Do |
| balance.2. In striding, you have better balance if you | | | | not just coast around the rink on skates; they will do |
| skate with your feet about shoulder width apart. If your | | | | most of the work for you if you let them.2. Skate in |
| feet are too close together, you are more easily | | | | short, hard bursts, gradually building up the number of |
| knocked off-balance in the heavy going of a game.3. | | | | lengths of ice you can do successively.3. Get a buddy |
| The faster you skate, the more you should bend | | | | to let you push him up and down the ice. You are |
| forward from the waist. The comparison here is to the | | | | over-loading by the amount he weighs.4. In testing |
| body-lean of a sprinter doing the 100-yard dash and | | | | yourself at top speed, keep up a continual refrain in |
| the striding form of a two-miler. During the course of a | | | | your mind: "I can go faster yet!" Be sure to warm up |
| hockey game, you will be both a sprinter and a strider | | | | well before any all-out test.If you study these 4 |
| as the play dictates. But when you really want to dig | | | | fundamentals and over-load with the 4 techniques |
| fast, with or without the puck, you should lean well into | | | | above, you will improve your skating skills dramatically. |
| it.4. For straight-ahead speed, your power comes from | | | | And that in turn will improve your overall ice hockey |
| the thrust you get when the knee of the digging foot | | | | performance.FREE ice hockey training can be found at |
| straightens. To get maximum thrust, the knee of the | | | | Sir Jon Weaver's information web site. Discover the |
| leg coming forward should be well bent. Be sure you | | | | secrets to performing at the top of your game, with a |
| carry this knee forward ahead of the foot. Then when | | | | focus on beginners. It's FREE! |
| you place your foot on the ice, you get full muscle | | | | |