The Four Fundamentals of Top Ice Hockey Skating

In ice hockey, skating can make or break you. Herepower when the knee straightens.Top athletes,
are the 4 fundamentals to becoming a top performingespecially outstanding track stars, recognize the
ice hockey skater, plus 4 extra techniques to push youimportance of leg power and do something about it.
right over the edge!1. A solid, well-balanced stance isThey use a principle of training known as over-load.
basic to any degree of speed you want to attain. IfAnd you can use your own form of it, too. Here are
you will work on your starts, stops, and turns assome methods of over- loading:1. Drive yourself all out
described, you will be well on your way to goodas long as you are on the ice during scrimmage. Do
balance.2. In striding, you have better balance if younot just coast around the rink on skates; they will do
skate with your feet about shoulder width apart. If yourmost of the work for you if you let them.2. Skate in
feet are too close together, you are more easilyshort, 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 bendto let you push him up and down the ice. You are
forward from the waist. The comparison here is to theover-loading by the amount he weighs.4. In testing
body-lean of a sprinter doing the 100-yard dash andyourself at top speed, keep up a continual refrain in
the striding form of a two-miler. During the course of ayour mind: "I can go faster yet!" Be sure to warm up
hockey game, you will be both a sprinter and a striderwell before any all-out test.If you study these 4
as the play dictates. But when you really want to digfundamentals and over-load with the 4 techniques
fast, with or without the puck, you should lean well intoabove, you will improve your skating skills dramatically.
it.4. For straight-ahead speed, your power comes fromAnd that in turn will improve your overall ice hockey
the thrust you get when the knee of the digging footperformance.FREE ice hockey training can be found at
straightens. To get maximum thrust, the knee of theSir Jon Weaver's information web site. Discover the
leg coming forward should be well bent. Be sure yousecrets to performing at the top of your game, with a
carry this knee forward ahead of the foot. Then whenfocus on beginners. It's FREE!
you place your foot on the ice, you get full muscle