Ice Skating Turning Mistakes and how to Fix Them!

[@HowdyThereChief]

Thanks, Marcel. As an adult getting into hockey late in life, I find your videos invaluable. Thanks again for the great content!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re very welcome! It’s never too late to start!

[@janisaar000]

I believe there is a lot of us adults who want to start training to skate/ play hockey! But Marcel here really helps us with these kind of videos.

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

@@janisaar000 Thanks! I hope I can help a lot of you start playing!

[@aaub67]

Just on my way back to Canada from Germany. Your video got me hyped to put on my skates and work on my turns for the current season 🏒 Dein Kanal ist absolut klasse, danke!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Hope you had a good visit and have a safe flight home! And of course, fun practicing when you get back!

[@pauldarthurs]

Awesome tips. I'm gonna try this next time at the rink. Thanks for sharing Marcel.

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re welcome and good luck!

[@aaronwhite1786]

As always, great video! I found a figure skating instructor at my local rink who offers pretty cheap one-on-one sessions recently and it's been awesome for just working on the small details that make such a huge difference. That and your videos will hopefully have me being able to actually turn in both directions instead of being hockey Zoolander.

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re welcome! Figure skating instructors are great for stuff like turning and other skills when you need good edges. Just sometimes I think hockey clubs overdo it and have a figure skating take over ALL of their powerskating. Have fun practicing!

[@aaronwhite1786]

@@MarcelsHockeySchool Yeah, I can see that being an issue. Fortunately, I've got the one-on-one with the figure skating coach, and then next summer, the guy from iTrain hockey comes to town!

[@kinkaly]

This video was very helpful! going to watch this again with my son and practice on the ODR with him!!!! thank you!!!!!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re most welcome! Have fun practicing!

[@timmorphine]

Excellent breakdown, thank you so much for the key points. Now I know what to pay attention to next time on ice!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re very welcome!

[@timmorphine]

I tried your suggestions today and my turns felt a lot better, they are a lot sharper now, thank you once again. I plan to watch your other videos, lots to work on😁👍🏻

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

@@timmorphine glad I could help you out! Make sure to turn the subtitles on if you end up watching some of my German ones!

[@timmorphine]

@@MarcelsHockeySchool haha, good suggestion, thanks

[@geneh2972]

Great instructional viseo! Ive been actually working on punch turns and have followed your previous videos on that skill. This video has also added some tips to understanding this skill!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Glad I could help! Yeah between videos, I also always learn new things!

[@warrenchampagne5176]

Great video. I like your delivery and disposition throughout! I'm thinking the concepts should be understandable for my 7 year old hockey player and I'll be sure to show him!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Thanks a lot! I try to make my videos understandable for everyone. That’s imo the key to being a good coach.

[@BigTwitchy]

Hahahaha - what a coincidence. Guess what my daughter and I practiced this morning in Geretsried? Will use your video for a “post-mortem” discussion at home.

[@dacat8171]

Seid ihr beim Schlägerlauf gewesen? Is' es da voll?

[@BigTwitchy]

@@dacat8171 leider ja, heute Morgen waren es ca. 40 Leute - es gibt zwar noch genug Raum um das zu üben worauf du Lust hast, musst aber schon Rücksicht nehmen. Da kommt man sich schnell in die Quere.

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Haha very cool!

[@ulanabdrakhmanov720]

Very helpful! Thanks from Kazakhstan!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re welcome! Greetings from Germany👋

[@rythmblood27]

Great video….thank you! I’m wondering if some of these suggestions hold true for roller-blade skating as well🤔

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You’re welcome! Upper body rotation and front knee forward are 100% important on inline skates as well.

[@shrimpanzee8510]

Fantastic video on this!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Thanks so much!

[@SkylerBurch]

Transition from roller to ice, do you have any advice for turns. In general, I think the transition starts from weight-on-heels in rollers to weight-on-toes on ice (like doing hockey stops) would you apply that to turns as well and what other differences are there?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Yeah pretty much the same on ice. Once you get the hang of it you can turn tighter on ice though by shaving the ice with your inside leg (called a punch turn in fancy Hockey lingo 😃)

[@zornsllama]

Thanks for the tips Marcel! Looking forward to showing you what I’ve learned next summer in Wetzikon 🤣

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

@@zornsllama You’re Welcome! I’m looking forward to it!

[@subiesteve2578]

I wish I had this when I was a kid. It would have elevated my skills so much. But I didn't have a very good coach or he would work with kids who hadn't grown up skating both on ice and in-line and I also skated aggressive inline street and park. So I was comfortable but could have used refinement 💯. Thanks coach 🙏!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You're welcome! I'll be honest: I had more bad coaches than good ones growing up. That was one of the reasons I wanted to become a coach.

[@Michels1]

When you turn like that at 2:01 , how much weight do you put on each leg?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

It's not the same throughout the turn. Going into it, more on the outside leg. Then it gradually shifts through the turn to the inside leg

[@Michels1]

@@MarcelsHockeySchool Thank you very much, I learnt to turn with the opposing leg and Im trying to unlearn that bad habit.

[@LastEsper]

Could you consider making a video on how to train our weakside skating? My crossovers to the right and stops with my left foot leading feel so unnatural compared to the other direction. I think the issue is related to what you noted in this video - twisting the shoulders and torso while shifting your hip. I feel like my body "snaps back" to what it considers its strongside position whenever I try to skate towards my weakside. I always practice my weakside 5x more than my strongside and I'm still struggling, so I think I'm practicing ineffectively. Thank you!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

The thing is, there isn’t much material for me to cover in a video about that. It’s basically your weak side more than your strong side (which you are already doing so that’s good👍), and filming both sides, so you can see the technical differences between good and bad.

[@hannahbanana09]

Thanks! Nice explaining

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

You're welcome!

[@giannis3455]

Moin Marcel, hast du einen Tipp wie man den Hockey Stop mit der schwächeren Seite verbessern kann? Nach Links und rechter Fuß klappt der Stop gut, zu anderen Seite gar nicht. Viele Grüße und mach weiter so gute Videos

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Eigentlich nur dass man die schwächere Seite mehr üben muss wie die gute Seite. Es ist wie beim Krafttraining: um Dysbalancen auszugleichen muss man die schwache Seite mehr trainieren

[@schzschzsch]

find ich ja ganz gut das du solche tipps videos machst, aber könntest du neben solchen technischen videos eventuell auch mal theoretische videos machen wie z.B. zuordnung auf dem eis für stürmer/verteidiger bei angriff und abwehr, rechter/linker aussenstürmer positionen, aufbau e.t.c. ?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Danke, ich habe mich schon was in der Richtung überlegt, weiß aber nicht ob ich es machen werde. Es ist von der Umsetzung her deutlich schwieriger, da ich teilweise 5 oder mehr Leute mit mir auch dem Eis holen muss, was kaum machbar ist. Oder ich erkläre alles nur an der Tafel, was ich aber langweilig finde. Die Idee ist aber gut und ich möchte es irgendwann schon hinbekommen!

[@MathArt_Magic]

Vielen Dank für deine Videos!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

@@MathArt_Magic sehr gerne!

[@phuesler]

Good stuff as usual, Marcel. There is a more extreme version of the punch turn, where you slide with both feet, like a hockey stop, use the momentum to direct your skates in the opposite direction and cross over out of the turn. I teach it by having the kids jump into the turn. To be honest, I don’t know which one is faster or allows for narrower turns. What do you think?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Hi, yeah we do this sometimes too, and use a Balke/Pommes to jump over because it’s fun, and try to slide into the turn. The narrowest will always be with both feet, because really, the hockey stop is actually the narrowest turn of all if you go back directly the other way. But I don’t have them specifically do a punch with 2 feet sliding, because I think they will do it automatically if they need to go narrower.

[@nurmibeowulf]

The ankle problem comes from not going to the back of the outer edge. Just try to lift the toes a little bit. If you stay in the middle you need to bend the ankle to come to the outer edge...

[@kingk4882]

Frohe Weihnachten! Sehr schönes und noch viel mehr ins Detail gehendes Video zu den Turns, danke Marcel! Üben, üben, üben. Den Punch Turn schaffe ich auch noch nicht, aber den normalen immerhin. Vor einem Jahr ging da noch gar nichts. Der T-Stop hilft sicherlich. Selbst den kann man meist nicht sofort. Hat sich mir auch erst vor wenigen Wochen erschlossen, wenn auch nur auf meiner starken Seite. Das mit dem zu stark gebeugten Knöchel ist interessant. Ich denke das kommt von zu wenig Vertrauen auf die Außenkante. Die kostet ja im Gegensatz zur Innenkante viel Überwindung zu Beginn 😅 Viele Grüße und einen guten ODR-Start 💪

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Merry Christmas🎅🏼 Ja der T-Stop ist eine gute Hilfe, allerdings für viele sehr schwer zu lernen. Jeder lernt auch mal anders, das macht das coachen interessant!

[@kingk4882]

@@MarcelsHockeySchool das glaube ich dir! Ein Traumjob 😁 Wir lernen auch alle sehr unterschiedlich bei uns in der Truppe. Deine Videos helfen eine Menge und zusätzlich pushen wir uns gegenseitig zu neuen Skills und Herausforderungen 💪

[@pgdntube]

Hello Marcel, Mighty thanks for these videos, we like to watch them, and we always waiting for the new clips. May I ask do you speak hungarian? I know that this would be a lot of extra work for you, but would be great and big help for the hungarian kids if you could make selectable hungarian audio narration for your videos. 😊 I wish you the best for the new year! BÚÉK! 😊

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Hi, thanks! Unfortunately I don’t speak Hungarian; my mom is German and dad Hungarian but they sadly never taught the languages to me. I learned German fairly quickly when I came to play hockey in Germany. It’s too bad that I never learned Hungarian☹️

[@pgdntube]

@@MarcelsHockeySchool Yes, I thought it. You should have spent more season in Dunaújváros and the language would have stuck to you. 😀 Once again I wish you a happy new year and a happy birthday in advance! 😉

[@andreasschubbe5602]

Wofür steht die Abkürzung ODR wortwörtlich?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Outdoor Rink

[@teamlstargamming9424]

❤ lots of love from india 🇮🇳

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Thank you! All the best from Germany👋

[@obviouslydavid5230]

You do private lessons?

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

Yes I do 1-2x a week. The rest of the time I work full time for my club

[@АндрейКукобако]

Благодарю!

[@MarcelsHockeySchool]

you're welcome!

[@Compos-Mentis-123]

99% of the beginners with sharp blades or half sharp blades will fail with your kind of Punch Turn. They'll shave nothing, but hit the floor. The trick then is, to put a little more weight on the heel and cut the ice (instead of shaving it)...the more heel, the narrower the turn.

[@Marty-72]

#GoSensGo 🍻

[@DuckSeason12]

Ha ha I’ve been turning on my outside foot.