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Here’s how to build downhill skating goal-scoring footwork and pattern recognition so strong that you can’t stop scoring.
Can you force the goalie to move so you can exploit their momentum?
Or freeze them and beat them with a quick pull?
In this clip, he does both.
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Why language is so important in hockey development and mechanics training.
Link in bio to start our free mini course and begin studying the game of hockey.
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Being good on your skates ≠being a good hockey skater.
For years I obsessed over edgework drills thinking that’s what would make me a better player.
Sure, I got a bit better at the drills themselves, but my in-game skating didn’t improve the way I wanted it to.
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Most people don’t realize there are two completely different turns in hockey, and using only one is what caps your ability in comparison to the games best players.
Do you have enough reps that the punch turn comes automatic to you come game time? Forehand and backside side?
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Connor McDavid’s lean is the engine behind the best crossunders in the world, and it’s far more trainable than it looks.
When McDavid goes into a turn he’s falling with heel pressure and letting gravity and centrifugal force pull him around faster than any push could.
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Want to skate with that deep, effortless lean where it looks like you're defying gravity around every turn?
First thing you want to change is your mindset to stop leaning and start falling. You want to feel like you’re falling toward the center of the circle with every step.
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The Downhill Skating System is the mechanics-first approach that unlocks your speed on the ice without extra conditioning, pushing or “trying harder.”
Inspired by the movement signatures of players like McDavid, MacKinnon and Hughes.
Skate faster with less effort inside DSS.
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If your shin angle isn’t right, you’re leaking speed. All squats in the world won’t change your stride mechanics.
The best skaters get their knees over their toes creating the perfect forward shin angle to load the calf spring.
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Everyone thinks Jack Eichel’s zone entries are all about speed, and it plays a role but it’s how he uses that speed that makes him so dangerous.
In this short, we break down three learnable mechanics that you can learn from Eichel to start having more successful zone entries.
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For those looking for the full breakdown on YouTube it's right here: youtu.be/bPF5aY9BM2Y
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Goalies are going to hate this. As a kinesiologist, I’ve studied the three mechanics that consistently beat goalies by exposing their weight shifts and most players have never been taught them.
Elite scorers like McDavid master all three, but even many NHLers struggle with them.
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Is Jack Eichel about to become a two time cup champion? He is one of the most dangerous players on the rush but what makes him special isn’t just speed.
It’s his ability to be both wide and dynamic which is a rare combination that allows him to move laterally, attack the middle.
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There’s something Rasmus Dahlin does that even Cale Makar and Quinn Hughes don’t really use the same way.
Dahlin is doing something different at the blue line when he is quarterbacking the powerplay. Check out the new breakdown below.
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If your cross-unders feel slow no matter how hard you push, you’re missing a cue that 90% of players have never been taught.
NHL stars do it without thinking. Most coaches don’t even know it exists.
And once you see it, you’ll spot it in every Connor McDavid clip from now on.
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When you watch McDavid or MacKinnon, it looks like magic which is exactly why most players never try to replicate it.
But it’s not magic. It’s mechanics. And mechanics can be broken down into learnable pieces, practiced until they’re automatic, and turned into instinct.
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No better time to breakdown and rebuild your mechanics than the offseason.
Precise Puck Control in Train 2.0 is a dedicated module designed to elevate stickhandling and puck control mastery like the world’s best players.
Are you able to supinate your grip like Connor McDavid?
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In hockey, speed is about how you generate ground reaction forces.
While basketball players rely heavily on vertical forces to jump and explode upward.
Hockey players need to maximize their ability to create horizontal forces into the ice.
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The crossover has even been called a “look–feel paradox”: it looks like your leg is crossing over, but it should actually feel like you’re crossing under.
Instead of dragging his back leg across the midline, his front foot works under his body, and the back foot steps forward.
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Troy Terry has mastered two key strategies for attacking triangles and exposing defenders.
What I realized is if you pay attention to where defenders’ sticks are positioned and if you bait your opponent correctly, you can actually use their stick momentum against them.
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Look where his top hand ends up on the one-timer, basically tucked right into his back hip pocket, almost like he’s reaching back to grab his wallet.
That pull is where the leverage on the stick comes from, and the leverage is where the mechanical advantage is made.
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