Amy continues her lesson with elite level skaters after she finished warming them up. She wants to test their inside and outside edge control. Where should they be on their blade? Based on Amy’s experience, hockey players are often not taught this skill, so she recommends regularly demonstrating it and encouraging the players to explain it back in their own words.
Amy has found that hockey players are highly visual learners and need to be shown what to do rather than learn simply from description.
To work on inside edges, Amy has the skater hold two hands on the stick while holding an inside edge as they skate back and forth on the lines. The stick needs to stay on the ice the whole time, in line with their skate. Amy borrows a skaters stick to go into detail as to why this is important.
Amy also describes how the knees should remain bent and gives some tips to help the skaters self evaluate how bent they are.
Moving on to outside edges, the skater put their knee on their skate on the tendon protector to “help get them down low.” Careful that the skaters don’t let their free leg swing around and fly high.
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