Stoppping in skates?

I need tips on how to stop. I can skate fairly well foward, backwards, crossovers and all that good stuf but just can't puck up on stopping. Any tip is helpful!!!!

Stoppping in skates?
Learning a snowplow stop is a good first step as mentioned above. 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 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 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.
Reply:I'll just throw in my two cents.





Learn to snowplow first. Get one foot to slow you down, then learn to do the other. After you've mastered that try turning your hips when you do it.


It will take some time, but it comes pretty natural after a while.
Reply:i had the exact same problem when i was younger.





The blade on a skate looks like a square, it comes down, goes across, ad goes up, sort of like this Ll.


What you want to do is stop on the flat part of the skate, the horizontal part.


A good way to start learning is to do it slowly with both feet, in a upside down v motion with your feet.


you will eventually get better and move on to stopping on with one foot, and then a full hockey stop.


Good luck!



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