From day one, hockey skaters should learn the mohawk! This is Amy’s first piece of advice. Mohawks help with transitioning from forward to backward as fast as possible.
Step one to teach a mohawk is to put a plastic cone on the ice. The skater will stand ‘duck footed’ right behind the cone. Standing on the inside edges, Amy has them ‘dinosaur stomp’ around the cone while interweaving little breaks with gliding.
Step two is a ‘scooter push’ around the cone. The right foot leads while the left pushes. Of course, reverse this on the left foot.
Amy has every skater in every lesson practice mohawks like this. Dinosaur stomps are actually one foot glides, but just sound better with a fun name. Mohawks glides are also part of the drill. The pushing foot is actually doing c-cuts while the skater moves around, as Amy demonstrates.
As they get more advanced, Amy has them to it with a forward and backward c-cut. She reiterates that changing direction while skating should not lose speed and mohawks are the fasted way to change from forward to backward and vice versa.
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