BASIC SKILLS

Once you have learned the fundamental moves of skating such as forward skating, backward skating, stops, edges, turns, crossovers, and mohawks, you are now ready to master them. There is no better way to master these skills than to practice as much as you can.

Everyone starts out with learning how to properly and smoothly glide on two feet. As soon as you become competent with the two-foot glide, you can then proceed to gliding using one leg at a time in a straight line. After transferring your weight on one foot, you can lift the other while continuing to glide. While doing this, it is important that you lift your free hip as well, pull in your stomach muscles, and avoid swinging your arms around. Gliding with the weight all on one foot is a basic ice skating move that should be learned.

As a beginner, you need to be able to maintain balance first, and this is accomplished by means of having proper posture, which is that of bent knees, upright torso, and the head up. There is a natural tendency to slouch or bend forward to be able to look down at the ice, but with this posture frequently leads to falls.

The next skating competency to master is stroking, which is a power move, where the skater pushes off onto one foot and glides. Beginners can first start with quick, short glides, before doing it for longer periods. In order to do stroking, with your feet together, you can slip one foot behind the other and push with the side of that foot that is behind, while transferring your weight to the other foot. You just have to bring your feet together again and do the same with your other foot, all these while in a relaxed position with your arms at the sides, palms down.

Whereas stroking is a one-foot push, swizzle is a two-foot push, accomplished by bending both knees with the toes pointing forward like in a V position, sliding the feet apart in order to get momentum, and finally bringing them together again. With repetition of this skating move, the path looks like an hourglass. You must be able to do several in a row and do backward swizzles also. These moves provide a good exercise for the knees.

Lastly, crossovers are intended for skating around corners. This is a maneuver where one foot crosses over the other as one glides on a corner. The outside skate is placed over the inside skate to move around, and to achieve power, some skaters even push the foot that is underneath the foot which is crossing over.

MUSCLES

Strong ankles, strong leg muscles, strong arms, grace, and no fear.
Good balance is helpful, too. It also helps to learn the best way to fall in order to minimize injury, because there WILL be falls, especially when first learning to skate.

Skating, besides being an important form of winter recreation and the essential skill in the game of ice hockey (see hockey, ice) has developed into three different sports–speed skating, figure skating, and ice dancing. All three are now features of the Winter Olympic games.

HAPPY SKATING :)

this is what i recommend,

do some push ups and lift light weight, your upper body
strength is your key to battle for position in the paint
and boxing out.

once you can get position, learn how to shoot around the basket,
couple of shoot form can help you.
1. turn around fade away. (you need to able to turn left and right)
2. turn around pump fake/jab step drive / jump shot.
3. Post Spin move then drive.
4. Sky hook (work best if you can shoot left hand and right hand)
when you practicing, best to have a friend (tall) to stand behind
you if will help you percentage during a real game.

next learn to get rebound, ask your friend to shot the ball
and learn to read the which way the ball is going to bounce
and get too position to get the rebound. if possible, ask another
friend to battle you, it will give you more idea how to box out
while you move in to position. (i would suggest to study Dennis Rodman
you can find it on youtube)

during summer, you should also add jogging in your workout too
it will boost your cardio and stamina. you need to

the position you are playing is a aggressive position, which means
there is going to be pushing little bump here and there. you need to be
mentally ready. What I like to do is to a turn around face my defender
and really stare him down in his face. if he try to avoid making eye
contact with me know I beat him mentally. then I can push him around
easily.

also, word of advise, if you are tall, I would also suggest to pump
more weight as you will get taller and the coach will make you center.

anyways, good luck

You need to have good balance, flexibility and be smooth confident across the ice

Hope I help

xx

Yes.

For your offensive game, work on your post moves and your bank shot. If you can hit that little 12-15 foot bank shot defenders will start to play more aagressive defense and then you can beat them much easier. There are tons of different moves you can do in the post, so if you can learn and perfect 3-5 of them defenders will have a hard time guarding you.

-One move I like to do is the up and under move- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpa36PvtL…
-Some other simple moves are the drop step http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOiM_0Dpf…
-Also, a turn around jump shot is an effective move. When you catch the ball in the post (butt to the basket), pivot so you are facing toward the basket and shoot it. Or you can fake and see if the defender will bite on it.


Here are some ways to post up (taught by Carlos Boozer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSoL9iCM…

Good luck!