How I Learned the ICE HOCKEY STOP on Inline Skates

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Playlist: • • Ice Hockey Stop (Parallel Slide) on I... • The Ice Hockey Stop ... on Inline Skates • MY STORY • Last summer .. my hockey stop was ... not quite perfect. • On ice I could do it, no problem, but on inline skates, well... • I though maybe a wet surface would do the trick but .. no ... no! • Soon I realized that to do a power stop on inline skates you need a completely different approach. • Make a sharp turn, put weight through the heel or third wheel, lose grip and ... there you have it .. a slide. • It works very well on inline skates, but technically it's a completely different stop. • Back on ice .. after getting used to rollerblade stops .. I couldn't stop at all. • It was only after a few hours of ice time, that I got used to the ice hockey stop. • This made me very curious about why inline and ice stops are so different and I made several videos about it. • I tried to analyze what I did right / what I did wrong, what the differences are, experiment and prepare myself for when I'm back on wheels again. • One thing I really focused on was controlling my balance point on the blade. Like here, I do hockey stops on the heel - which normally is considered a bad idea • but this is exactly what I need for inline skating. • THE INLINE HOCKEY STOP • So I told myself today - let's pretend I'm on ice. Do a hockey stop ... but make it more of a heel stop. • Not like completely on the heel as I did on ice, but more like the third wheel. • First few tries ... not a big success ... but I did try on my weak side. • On my strong side ... first two tries ... not that good either. • But the thrid ... pretty good. • And the fourth ... yeah .. I realized it works! It works! • And then I repeated again again again • A few more times .. • ough ... it's what I feared. The front wheel gripped which caused a nasty rotation. • It does look worse than it was .. thankfully .. and I did know this risk beforehand • that's why I was so focused on pushing through the heels and not have the balance too far toward the toes. • On ice hockey, on the other hand, you do normally put your balance more toward the balls of your feet. • And I think this is why, when I got more comfortable / confident, I lost focus and fell back on what I'm used to from ice .. and BAM. • So anyway, I didn't get hurt or anything but I really wanted to empasis this risk. • It's probably a good idea to have rockered skates where the front and back wheels are a bit elevetad. • That will reduce this risk of getting the front wheel stuck. • PLAYLIST • I've compiled a playlist of hockey stop videos. A few are mine from ice skating so you can watch the steps I've made to improve my hockey stop • and eventually prepared me for the inline hockey stop. • But other videos are by other inline skaters. They may call it parallel slide or shuffle stop, but it's the same stop - just different names. • One difference though - I've seen two different appraoches. Some make more of a sharp turn to trigger the skates to slide, and that's a good approach. • But the ice hockey stop is more like you rotate both skates really quick, and the slide then contines in a straight line. • So your homework tonight is to analyze these subtles difference and please leave your report in the comments below.

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