Power Skating

Yes, I teach Power Skating!

If you want to be a good hockey player you need to be a good skater. If you want to be a great hockey player you need to be a great skater. If you are small then you need to be even faster than the rest.

I was a small and great and powerful skater; it was my strength. When I played, I was typically the fastest and best skater on the ice, skating was my go-to power (hands of stone but fleet feet).

I teach kids to be great skaters. I ensure they cut their stick to help them to be a great skater. I teach the “Hockey Position”.

I wrote an article to help kids to bend their knees. I am a HOCKEY PLAYER that teaches POWER skating because being a powerful skater is EVERYTHING.

• I recommend and provide exercise programs to help their skating. Want to be faster? BUILD YOUR LEGS!!!!! Very simple.

• Every Player I teach becomes better at skating, every skills practice has a significant skating element. I teach kids how to skate with POWER.

• I spend more time on backwards skating than most do.

I teach POWER skating. To be a powerful skater one needs to be:

✓ Low, the lower you are the lower your center of gravity. The lower your center of gravity there more POWERFUL you are.       o Low gives us a powerful stride.
      o Low allows quick and short strides.
      o Low allows greater and faster change of direction (to go EAST/WEST).
      o Low allows you to POWER though defenders.
✓ Wide stance (but not too wide) EAST/WEST mobility is extremely important and we need our feet under us.
      o Wide allows quick and short strides, hockey is 90% stops starts and direction changes not big long strides.
      o Wide allows us to POWER through the defenders.
✓ Isolate your lower body, learn to skate with a stable heads and hands that are free to do their job.
✓ Skate with your head UP, looking anticipating, head on a swivel.
✓ I teach 1 hand on your stick for greater reach, greater speed, and greater turning.
✓ I teach fast balanced backwards skating. I focus a great deal of time on skating backwards.

Yes I teach POWER skating, every minute of every drill.

People come to me to fix their kids strides, to make them faster and more mobile and that is what happens.

Contact me any time to talk hockey.

Coach Conroy
www.conroyhockey.com
587-888-1097.