Kalli‘s video centers on lengthening a stride. As Kalli says “there’s always things we can work on to gain more power and more speed in the stride.”
She breaks it down to the knee bend, posture and recovery. A common error is to slip into ‘railroad’ tracks, which doesn’t have much of a recovery. Once players get tired from gameplay, they often come up out of their knees which leads to leaning forward. Butts needs to keep the tuck and the shoulders need to stay back.
Kalli demonstrates the incorrect and correct technique for strides coming straight at the camera which shows us clearly the differences and the obvious effect of how much ice is covered for each version.
Even players at the elite level can accidentally get complacent with their strides. Imagine that your feet might touch (this doesn’t actually happen) but the athlete can think about their toe coming back to the heal.
Kalli demonstrates a one footed stride to show the recovery plainly.
No stride discussion would be complete without discussing the 90 degree knee bend. Too low and you can run into problems, if you aim for 90 you might not be down that low but your knees will be bent nicely.
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