Figure Skaters Try to Keep Up With Hockey Players | SELF

Hello, my name is Michelle and I have been playing

hockey

for 20 years and currently play for the Metropolitan Riveters in the NW HL. My name is Evo. I've played

hockey

for 27 years. I used to play professionally and am currently the head coach. from Metropolitan Rivers my name is boo bull I play hockey 12 years old I play left wing for the Chang Riveters I've been skating for about 24 years and I'm a skating coach at Chelsea Piers in a minute Hi I'm Elliot I've been skating for 23 years and I'm international trainer and choreographer in New York City. My name is Angela.

I have been skating for over 20 years. I am a professional

figure

skater. I train at Chelsea Piers in New York. City and I think I'm going to try hockey today. Hello guys, the first challenge is the handling of the stick. Stick handling is important because you need to get away, protect the park and make a good pass. That was a lot. There was a lot going on there. This is very per second exactly correct my hand-eye coordination is not up to par I feel like good

skaters

, they are pretty good in the case, but yes almost, the first challenge was very simple but it is basic for beginners and I think

skaters

artists did it very well for the first time. difficult, we are so used to having to control ourselves in our sport, now we have control and support essentially.

I guess I hadn't thought about how many different ways you could control the puck with the stick. I didn't know. You could get it with the tip and then the side, it's more detailed than I expected, yeah, and we have to protect the puck. I don't know what happens when someone tries to steal it, oh yeah, those will be the bad guys. Go check the stick handling. Now the second challenge will be to shoot, the most important thing because we have to score goals correctly. I'm going to teach you how to make two different types of shots.

Okay, one is a wrist shot, the second is a slap. wrist shot is the one that is most accurate, slap shot is the most difficult, it all comes down to you transferring your body weight, so what I'm doing is a shot, I'm leaning on my back leg and then I'm transferring the way my body moves the puck and I end up eating on my front leg and don't forget when I'm shooting the puck all the energy comes from your core right here don't try to pick up the puck with your arms always turn the body super intense, cool, yeah, we're going to have to be pretty precise, okay, open your eyes ladies, hey guys, so the first one, okay, this one's going to be a shot on the wrist.

I have the puck on the hill of my stick, to the right and I just whip my body and follow it. I have to finish that movement to the end. Pull and place the heel of your stick, there you have it. I mean, it's not a bad opening move, the right hand goes down and seriously, let's take this turn. okay, okay, when I make a shot, I swing my body back when I have the plug right in front of me and then I hit the puck as hard as I can, are you ready to try it, I mean let's do it, who's going to swing? your body and hit it, yeah, like that, but I'm horrible, I'm going home, I can't hit the ball, the good thing is that this crazy is golf, so you're opening the link to the lyrics of my tribe, the dick, hit this sword, your sword. they have to be in front of the net, show me what's going on, it had to happen, yeah that was really a lack of coordination of our hands, he's really showing his face on this one, you don't know if you want to look at the book or the target.

Honestly, I'm pleasantly surprised at how well they did, especially with the slap shots. Angela has that natural movement, so she did very well with Jennifer. The shot of her was probably the most difficult, so it was much better than she expected. The third challenge we have for you is crossovers and pivots with a pocket. Yes, crossovers are important for gaining speed in a hockey game both offensively and defensively, and pivots are a good way to get into a defensive position when the person with the puck is coming at you. and we're going to start just with sport crosses so I can feel a lot of skills that are things we do on

figure

skates but the way she did them wasn't the same yeah the combination of stick handling and skating to that speed. one from the other is fine, so for your crosses around you, I just want to take a step, extend your leg down, extend your leg down, the important thing with the puck is that if you are on your backhand,

keep

it in front of you So.

Go ahead, I'll go first, we're going to work on back crossovers now, so we'll do the same thing, going around the circle, bringing our hands down to the ice to cup the puck. Okay, if you put your hands up here, the pucks. I'm going to end up sliding under the blade of your club, okay, going in that direction, all right, don't stand it up, so now we're going to move to a pivot, we're going to move around the junction when we get there. the top we're going to spin back it's going to go from my backhand when I spin I'm going to pull it and pull my forehand okay there you go it was incredibly difficult I really felt like there was no way to control what the puck was doing. was doing it all came down to where you were holding the stick that's it there's so much finesse between what you're doing with your skating and what you're doing with your figure skaters they did so well at the crossovers they're kind of Naturals with their skating work, but I think once you put the puck in their hands it gets a little slippery, they actually have so much speed and so much power from their crossovers that they're not able to handle the puck as well and we're kind of letting ourselves get ahead of them a little bit, a lot Things happen at once with cross pivots turning the disc while maintaining control by cupping it.

I think they did a very good job. Well guys, the fourth challenge is to jump the board. We are using jumping the boards during the game because we don't have time to go through the door so you jump out and in so it makes quick games so you are running two boards and you just jump with ease and when you are jumping, make sure your stick is on the ice and ready to have passes, do you want to try it? Yeah, I'm excited to do this because figure skaters can't do it. Yes, we can travel, we can't touch the wall, strict rule, so now is the time. jump the rules, yes, oh, this as friends, yes, and I'm ready, yes, I felt very afraid of hitting my knees and elbows, but then these pads are there and my butt is not protected, the first challenge was more fun .

Well, I was impressed with the bravery of him, okay, so we will have a coach standing here and this is our player sitting on the bench, they will jump on the bench and immediately pick up the puck, pass it to the coach and continue skating. they'll get the pass back and then they'll spin the cone with the puck, they'll spin the cone with the puck and they'll skate and they'll go backwards, they'll pivot back here and then they'll shoot and there'll be another puck over here, they'll pick it up and they'll spin back around of this one and they will shoot here and then we want to teach them how to celebrate so they come back and make a celli.

I'll show you a couple of silly options. Well, now we'll put all your skills together into one comprehensive little course. Before we do that, we'll go over the most fun part of hockey, which is the post-score celebration, also known as the cell phone, okay, so we'll give you a couple of options for your cell phone. I'll show you one of the most famous ones after you get score come and then another good one is just the good one so think about what. what do you want to do for your celly and I'll show you the route, okay, okay, so the first thing you're going to do is jump on the boards and put your stick on the ice ready to pick up a puck, make your pass. get the puck back, spin around the cone, spin around the top of the circle, you're going to spin, then do your good celebration, alright, alright, she knew she loved and screamed it was great, big chill, woods for me, really.

Impossible, I think we're going to have to come, come on, come on, get your snake ready quick, that puck, get that pass back, spin right, spin the cone, spin the cone like this, yeah, fine,

keep

the puck in front of you . Wow, nice pivot, don't let that puck get too close to you. Well, turn to the forwards. Morgan shot good footwork. Good footwork. Get a new yes. Backward. Good job. Right shot. Here we go. I was OK. I loved. I think I'm going to change. For hockey, no more figure skating. It was a challenge to skate with another object because we usually skate without anything.

I am grateful to the hockey

players

for showing us what their sport is all about. It's easy to see that a hockey player is something like that. brute force and so seeing that there's a lot of very technical stuff likened it to figure skating and it was nice to see more connection between the two who felt very far apart before she let go and hit the ice. a different experience and maybe you need it. Hockey is something that I always wanted to try and that obstacle course for me was like I was really surprised that I was able to do it on the first day and it gives me crazy respect for the difference between In our sports I feel like it was a success, but that's because because we had good coaches.

The figure skaters did a great job in the obstacle course. They have so much energy and excitement. It's a lot of fun to work with

players

like that. It was very interesting to see them. They developed the skills so quickly that they scored many goals and had good celli. The funniest part was when they left work. I think they liked it. What surprised me the most was their skills in hammering with sticks because when they do their routines. just focus on the skating part, they really got better at controlling the puck and getting nanna's scoring combo.

It was definitely a fun day and a great experience.