How to teach hockey stops

In this video you will learn the progressive steps that go into teaching stopping for young players.

[@sashamanster]

Wow, I wish I had found this video a while back when I was first trying to learn hockey stops. This is the first video I've seen that shows how to do smooth, easy progressions from a snowplow stop to a hockey stop. Lots of people find hockey stops "scary" because it feels like if you don't have perfect balance you fall over. This video shows how to learn to get that balance from the snowplow stop, which most people can get pretty easily. Fantastic!

[@romahnae]

How bout currently... are you hockey stopping now and so on.. ? .. .

[@illmaticXX95]

This guys a proper teacher 👏

[@Jaakkogaz]

My right ear is enjoyíng

[@lastfirstxxa7620]

Mac Gowss I like how more people liked your comment then the actual comment 😂

[@ilikeburgers284]

you have your headphones on backwards

[@ryanhogge8]

Man, I could do anything on the ice 20 years ago. Now I have trouble with hockey stops and reverse crossovers. This video is helping. Thanks!

[@greysongladney4403]

Finally. Someone who knows what fundamentals are. We don't have ice time for now so I'm having difficulty finding videos to help illustrate. Thanks for a great vid!

[@jeffhermida4788]

This reminds me of my ski lessons. I just started ice skating. Will try these tips. Thanks!

[@lewguru42]

I instruct at a high school hockey program and do development for the local hockey association. Well explained and demonstrated. Liked how you pointed out what to look for and how to correct. The sound was pretty good and video work was clear and spot on. Reinforced a number of things for me that will help with an upcoming session with Initiation/Novice players. Thanks.

[@figlermaert]

Really great video. I’m going to use it to teach myself on my strong side even though I’m not a little kid! I learned how to on my weak side really well for some reason but not my strong.

[@matrixmirage2148]

Thank you very much! I've tried learning doing hockey stops on my weaker side (I've been able to stop for years, but on my right foot forward only), but you made me realize that I'll need to learn it from the absolute basics, and not rush it Now I'll just have to dull out my edges enough that they don't skip along the ice under pressure

[@nefariousnektarios]

I am in the exact same boat

[@armweak13]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@herbjergens6350]

I'm 45 no, 46...anyway, you just helped me by stating a key thing: start with the snow plow to do the turn. Now, I just need some leg muscles and ice to practice on. Thank you for the video!!

[@Macmathews1]

Exactly what I was looking for !

[@omara2248]

Thanks for the tips!

[@TheLarryBrown]

This may be a good technique, I wouldn't know since I'm just a novice skater, but it doesn't work for me as fast as some other methods I'm using. The main reason for that is because I don't find it easy to snow plow with both feet and I'm not able to do that in spite of some effort. I can do it with my right foot, but only just barely with my left. I'm going to have to work on that, but in the meantime that's slowing me down and some other methods have allowed me to learn the hockey stop in spite of that. Method #1: Learn just on the strong foot and don't bother with the weak foot until later. Let's assume the right foot is stronger. Skate forward at a moderate pace and put all the weight on the left (weak) foot, pointing it in the line of travel, and then lift the right (strong) off the ice. Then turn the right heel outwards so that the right blade is somewhat crosswise to your direction of motion. Then just baaarely scrape the TOE ONLY of the right blade on the ice, holding it out in front of the left foot. Scrape the toe on the ice VERY LIGHTLY. With a little practice you should be able to glide forward while scraping the ice with that right blade. That's an easy way to allow you to get used to the feeling of scraping the blade on the ice. At this point you're not trying to stop or put any pressure on the scraping blade, you're just trying to develop the ability to scrape the blade on the ice without a problem. Once you start getting good, then you can start putting more pressure on the blade and scraping the ice harder, and gradually you can work up to putting some real pressure on there and getting some good scraping and stopping. Basically that's a snow plow with only your strong foot. Once you're good at that, then you work up to starting the scrape, slowing down to a comfortable speed, then bend both knees and really dig the inside edge of that forward skate into the ice and that's the hockey stop. All of the above was pretty easy for me, and I have no talent whatesoever. I was able to progress from the snowplow to the hard scrape and stop in just a few tries, but I was pretty good at the snowplow beforehand. Method #2: Do all of the same as above, learning the strong foot snowplow. Once you're good, then do this snowplow until you've almost come to a stop, then lean back some and quickly slide the left heel inwards so that the left skate (as well as the right) turns crosswise to the direction of travel. Since you are moving slowly because you've snowplowed almost to a stop, you hopefully won't kill yourself. A guy showed me this and to my surprise I was able to do the first hockey stop of my life with it on the first try, and kicked up a respectable amount of snow from the ice. The sound of that weak foot skate scraping the ice and shaving out that snow was very satisfying.

[@nielswil]

Well done explained. Altough i am a beginner in inline skating, i like to watch as much videos (both inline and icehockey) to learn as much as possible. Because our winters absolutly suck so no much ice skating, inline is a great alternative. Anyone knows a good stopping video for inline skating, please let me know. I am already subscribed to pintoponyproductions.

[@dabbingbobandlouis2050]

Niels Willemse Lear by yourself I did

[@makudonarudokairu]

My left ear learned a lot ! (joking) thanks for the video, will be good as I'm working on coaching some youth players next year and hopefully all know the hockey stop but some may need some work on it still, we'll see.

[@HockeyExtremeToronto]

Good luck and have fun. Any questions please ask.

[@devizkit]

Thanks for the walkthrough . Very good stuff

[@skatersedge3139]

Great video , thanks for posting

[@laurduncan]

Sound is messed up on this video...muffled on speakers (too low to hear) but if I use headphones, the sound comes out of only one headphone.

[@MishaTal1]

Thanks coach.

[@gotDIBS]

Keeps talking about kids - all of us adults like 🏒👀

[@M0schin00]

I cant stop for the life of me. My skates skip and almost makes me fall over. Seems like my blade edges are way too sharp and digging into the ice, because no matter how light I try to be on the ice, my blades still dig in eventually.

[@Dr4g0nW00d]

very helpful

[@vullom29]

Thank you.

[@unstablemanners6472]

i all ready know

[@dripgotthatdrip]

we remeber the day of world war 2 1909 lol bitch

[@AChen-bk2uw]

When I do the snow plow, it doesn’t slide. It makes no sound.

[@HockeyExtremeToronto]

Forward a small video (if possible) and I will help you.

[@AChen-bk2uw]

I still can’t do it. Blade abruptly stops tripping me over

[@HockeyExtremeToronto]

What you are experiencing happens to many and it will take more time and practice. I recommend that your skates are not super sharp as that will grab the ice and make it difficult to learn to slide and stop. Small steps and repeat the exercises from the video.

[@Turtle_Tortillas]

Ik I’m 2 years late but this is what happened to me, I got them sharpened later that day and my problems were solved (but I also wasn’t pushing hard enough into the ice) but hope you’ve learnt it by now..

[@Beanie-Sandals]

Is this a fractal?

[@robertharvey9047]

Jesus

[@wiscohans]

Great language for kids to hear