Reply To: Improving Skating in the Off-Season

[Tom Molloy]

Gaston did a skating session last week with my school group. He is incredible at teaching how to skate.

https://www.hockeycoachingabcs.com/videos/watch/a-dr-gaston-schaeffer-talks-skating/ is the video of him talking about skating and the next video he does a demo.

Gaston was skating champion of Switzerland, has a Doctorate in Body Mechanics and was the feature skater for Ice Capades and Holiday on Ice (met his wife there who was a chorus girl skater).

He teaches backward skating and the mechanics of skating better than anyone and I have seen the the other Dr. mentioned on this site instructing as well.

The point is that you never want the body working against itself like when we do the Mohawk turn and stop some of the motion on the pivot.

Anyway, look at it for ideas.

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