How do you do a hockey stop on ice skates?

I play roller hockey and this is my first year of ice hockey. Any suggestions?|||Go to





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It a great video that teaches you how to do a hockey stop|||One thing I have used to teach kids that seems to work is this:


First, find which leg is is stronger or more stable. Generate some speed and take a turn lifting each leg. Which ever leg you feel more balanced on when you lift the other is your dominate leg.


Now that you know this, you can skate around, lift the weaker leg out in front and turn that leg at an angle with the toes of the raised leg pointed in towards your balancing foot.


Once you do this, practice slowly lowering that lifted leg until it hardly scrapes the ice, this will get you comfortable with the little amount of pressure it takes to slow you down. Most beginners try to dig in way too hard to stop and just end up doing some out of control power turn or falling.


After you get the hang of scraping that foot, you can practice applying more pressure until you learn how to stop with what will be the front foot of your eventual full hockey stop.


Once you get really comfortable with that, I have found that the back leg will start to angle in to match the front foot as your speed and balance increase.


I hope this helps, its much harder to type than show. The best advice I can give no matter what you are trying is to stay in a shoulders over knees over toes posture for the best balance and stride.|||you turn fast perpendicular to the way you where going before|||When you Stop you should have your strong foot behind your front. and it should be like this





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But it would decide on your play. Or the side your stopping on.|||put your strong foot (if you kick lefty then your left foot or righty then right foot) in front sideways and use the inside of the blade......or use your weak foot (the opposite of your strong foot) and trail it behind you again using the inside of the blade|||I find that putting pressure on the toes helps in almost everything skating. It helped me learn how to skate backwards and figured out how to stop that way.