Skating: Inside Edge

Inside Edge

By Mike Fazio

Skating

• ​Understand Why inside edge is important

• understand ways to use the inside edge

• Application and Breakdowns

• Simple drills to train at home

Objective

Open Ended

In what situations do you feel yourself on your inside edges? Name more than one if you can.

Why its important

The inside edge is a sub skill for many others

• Push type movements

• ability to change directions

• Strong balance

• w​ide base situations

What muscles in ​your body do you feel working when you use your inside edges?

Lateral Move​s & turns

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Acceleration​

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Mohawk

Sculling

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functions of the Inside Edge

Wide Base

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Acceleration| Lateral Moves |Turns Mohawk | Sculling | Wide Base​

• ACCELERATION TH​ROUGH NZ

• SMALL PUSHES TO ACCELERATE IN A SMALL SPACES

• ​ACCELERATION HELPS HIM STAY IN GOOD ICE BEFORE HE MAKES A PLAY

Inside edge |Acceleration​

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R​ush: How many players are Accelerating and what edge are they on?

​​​Single Leg Loaded

​Inside Edge Pushing

La​teral Movement Created

Inside Edge |Lateral Move

​Feel through it: Stand on your left leg and jump as far as you can to the right

Open Ended

​Where does the puck start when 8 loads his leg up? Where does it end ​after he pushes off and completes the lateral move?

In​side Edge | Mohawk

Applications: can be used in many situations for different reasons to help you advantages

Change of Direction

Puck Protection

Keep Speed

• Moves Defender

• Feet at 2 and 10

• ​opens hips

• Actively Pushing

• inside edge pushes

• Shields Puck and looks over shoulder

• ​keeps speed

• Builds Speed

• Opens Hips

• ​Back Foot Pushes

• Vision to middle​

INSIDE EDGE | W​IDE BASE

​WIDE BASE POSITIONS ARE BENEFICIAL WHEN YOU NEED TO be mobile or PROTECT PUCKS in traffic. This is also a position you can create deceptive body language.

Draw

Draw a line where my left leg SHOULD be to block the poke check

​If my base was wide I could have....

• protected the puck better

• ​sculled to pick up speed

• Kept the puck for my team

​Where my leg should be

• ​55 cant get stick on puck

• wide base blocking

• ​in a position to scull

• m​AKES A PLAY

POSITIVE EXAMPLE​

• Wide Base​

• ABILI​TY TO TURN & RELOCATE

• Dou​ble Sculling

• ​Shield Puck for Protection

• blocking d​efeNDER stick

​Positive Examples of Wide Base Skills

• Eliminates Poke Check

• ​Strong Under Pressure

• ​Holding balance on Inside Edge

• 87 Single leg scull​

• able to stay moving

• ​Inside Edge Skill leads to scoring chance

Open Ended

Now that you have seen some examples of the application:

What are some of the benefits to being able to Scull when you have the puck under high pressure?

Build The Inside edge from home

The major Muscles involved in ​pushing off of your inside edge are your groin, glute and hips

• ​Slide Boards

• ​Skater hops

• Lateral Lunge

• Sumo Squat

• Fro​g Jumps

• ​Kneeling Start Sprints

• ​Shuffle Drills

• Wide Stance Squats

• Transverse Squats

• Resisted Runs

Questions​

Discussion​

comm​ents

Skating | inside edge

Thank you!