| Skill Development technical power skating (ice hockeyskating) programs are created for all ages and abilities: Minor Hockey, Junior, Collegiate, Adult, and Pro. The programs include training for explosive quickness and speed, agility, flexibility, strength, power and endurance. Video is used for biomechanical skating analysis. The techniques are trained repetitively so that when the neuromuscular patterns are repeated, less energy is used and hence, the more valuable you are to your team.
Once a player reaches the Pee Wee or Bantam level, we are very careful not to change a player's skating. We make adjustments. We keep the group sizes small so that we can help players individually and thus, run drills that are specific to the needs for his/her improvement. Also, every athlete learns differently. Some of us learn kinetically, visually, verbally, etc. By getting to know the athlete right away, we can easily identify this very important part of the learning process.
Barbara Aidelbaum has authored many articles
on technical power ice hockey skating. The articles cover basic
skating technique. At Barb Aidelbaum Skating Schools , we take many factors into consideration.
Some issues that enter into the play when analyzing a player's skating style are: body type, height and weight, playing position, left or right shot, and the blade radius and degree of hollow that the blade has been sharpened. We train the skills at various speeds. When the technique is perfect it is executed at top end speed with the puck. It then has to be repeated thousands of times to become a reflex action.
All sessions are guaranteed to be filled
with hard work and lots of fun! |
