Why Do You Need An Edge Work Coach?

Something the pros know: To maximize your game, you need to do more than shoot well, you need to be able to skate well. The keys to being a great skater are balance and control, and this requires edge control. Unfortunately that is something most hockey players don’t learn at hockey practice, which is usually dedicated to speed (stride only) and shooting and stick handling.

As an experienced edge work coach I can help you fill in that gap by teaching you how to control and really use your edges, improving your balance, control, agility and speed. The more in control, and the more secure you are on your blades, the faster you can turn, stop, accelerate and transition. This can mean the difference between beating a defender vs losing the puck.

Speed is more than skating straight down the ice, it’s quick turns (all directions, not just to the left!), rapid acceleration, and fast crossovers. It’s being able to go any direction at anytime, and being able to quick change direction! The only way to do that with speed is with amazing balance, control, and agility. As an experience edge work coach, those are exactly the skills I can help you develop.

“But you’re a figure skating coach…”

Shhhh…. Don’t tell anyone, but that’s exactly the type of coach pro teams use when they want their players to improve their speed and agility, or rehab on the ice after an injury. Figure skaters spend their entire careers training to do nothing but training to control their edges by improving their balance, agility, and speed. All of that edge control training makes us masters of how blades work and how to get the most out of them, and it doesn’t matter if it’s a figure skating blade or a hockey blade.