Reply To: Introduction to Skating

[Tim Taylor]

Thanks for recording these Tom.
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Tr, I think these clips and Gaston talking about skating is the best resource you can find anywhere on introducing the stride with the proper weight transfer. The backward skating is especially good with him teaching the side to side motion and then the backward stride. I see most coaches showing a C cut backward where the end of the C would be pushing against the motion.
There are a lot of other videos with Gaston in the A section of the videos.

Gaston travelled the major cities of the world as a feature skater for ice shows. He has a Doctorate in Body Mechanics and taught univeristy in Switzerland, was Olympic figure skating coach and fitness coach for speed skating. He also worked as a skating instructor in Davos where Juhani met him while coachng there.

Look at the powere his son produces on his forward and backward strides. Jr. was a pretty good defenseman but got jumped in a junior practice by a huge 20 year old when he was 16. The concussion was so bad he couldn't even ride an exercise bike for 6 months. He lost his desire to play after that.