start – Hockey Coaching ABCs

A – Edges and Skating Posture – Pro

A – Edges and Skating Posture – Pro Key Points: Bend the knees and stay low skating level. Use the edges. Description:…

F202 – Skating for Quickness and Agility Key Points: Start low from a good athletic position. The first 3-4 strides fall forward…

F – Full Length Ladder Skate Key Points: Skate all the way to each line before going the other way. A good…

A – Forward Skating Start Technique – Swiss

Half the team at each end practice the specialty teams. Coaches start the play and focus on either the power play or…

Key Points: Practice the full ice power play vs penalty killers. Controlled scrimmage style with coaches shooting the puck in and stopping…

One partner drop a tennis ball while the other waits in the ready position 3-5 metres away. The goal is for the…

A2 Starting and Stopping Key Points: Work on quick starts and sudden stops. Fall forward and take quick steps back the first…

Gaston Schaeffer leads a group of 12-14 year old girls and boys. They cover: 1. Forward long stride. 2. Forward medium stride.…

Introduction to the hockey start and stop.

One team vs the other. Freeze when tagged. Escape by sliding under teammate.

Speed, backward, forward, start, balance. More video in the Skating and Skating for Conditioning sections of this site.

Forward and backward balance, crossovers, stop, start. More video in the Skating and Skating for Conditioning sections of this site.

Here’s skating video that me, our hockey club’s head of coaching and FIHA regional instructor made for our hockey club in Finland.…

A2-B202 Conditioning Agility Skate Key Points: Quick feet, shoulder leads in crossovers. Learn to turn with speed in both directions. A puck…

B202 Skating for Quickness and Re-focus Key Points: Running start with the toes out and a deep knee bend. Burst through the…

A2 Defensive Back Skating Key Points: All the players including the goalies do this. Zig zag back keeping good posture and practice…

B5 Overspeed Skate-Pass-Shoot Key Points: Do everything at top speed. Pass, shoot, skate, rebound, backcheck. Description: 1. Player 1 and 2 leave…

Players skate short distances at top speed and do various turns for agility and quickness.

Conditioning skate focusing on speed and quickness. Players are in 5 groups and skate various distances.

A3 – Skating from Minnesota Skating instruction and demo’s from the Minnesota Hockey Association with Hal Tearse. The basics of skating are…