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Every player, no matter what position he or she plays, needs to know how to skate backward.
How to Skate Backwards in Hockey
Backward Stride
As in the forward stride, it is important to emphasize power, which is achieved by using your skate edges, leg muscles and body weight.
Ready Position Stride
Take your bottom hand off the stick.
Your skates should be shoulder-width apart.
Get in a sit position with your knees bent and chest up.
Backward Stride
Start in ready position, head up, knees bent, and your back straight and shoulders erect.
Skate with one hand on your stick. Keep the top hand on the end of the stick, with your elbow tucked inward.
Start by pointing the heel of your front foot out to the side.
Dig in and push off from the heel to the toe, making half circles (C-Cuts) on the surface.
After reaching a full extension, bring your leg back under your hip and repeat with the other leg.
Keep the knee of the glide leg bent while the other leg is striding.
Maintain balance Ð you should be able to skate backward in a straight line from end to end.
The keys to a good stride are power, length and recovery Ð players with poor strides don't often recover their stride, which causes poor balance.
Finally, players must be able to stay low while skating backward. This will help maintain a long stride, which creates speed.
Common Errors
Wiggling too much from the hips. This limits the thrust power of your legs.
Bending forward too much at the waist. This throws your balance off, reduces your knee bend and limits your power and stride.
Skates too far apart that limits the length of your stride, which effects the amount of power you can generate.
C-Cuts
C-Cuts are an important part of skating backward. It is how you generate speed, using your thrust leg to drive the skate into the ice to generate maximum power. The C-Cut is divided into four parts Ð pivot, push, re-pivot and return. Keep the entire blade of both skates on the ice.
On Ice Drills
Resistance Drill
A good drill that forces a backward skater to practice the use of knee bend, inside edges and full recovery:
Pair up, with each player holding one end of a stick with one hand.
One player skates backward using C-Cut thrusts to pull the resisting skater across the ice.
Be sure to aim the gliding skate straight backward while executing each C-Cut.
The forward skater should do a two-foot snowplow to resist the movement.
One-Leg C-Cuts
Line up along the boards.
Using only your right leg to execute a C-Cut, glide across the rink.
Try to make it across in four or five C-Cuts.
Return using only your left leg.
Keep your glide skate pointing straight back for maximum distance and glide.
One variation of this drill would be to alternate feet.
Off-ice Drills
Hip Or Leg Movement
Run backward, keeping both feet as close to the ground as possible. Swing your hips in a backward swivel motion to simulate the hip movement used in skating backward. A take off on this drill is to bring each leg directly behind your body. This is another method of skating backward.
Leg Extensions
Standing in the ready position with your knees bent, thrust your right leg out in a backward C-Cut motion. Swing your leg out and around and back together with your other leg. Then switch to your left leg. This will allow you to simulate a backward stride on the ice.
One-on-one Drill
One player moves forward, attempting to get by the second player, who is moving straight backward. The object is for the defender to skate straight backward (no crossovers) and not allow the forward to catch and pass him or her. This is a good drill for both ice or inline players
The skating school teaches elements in a certain order because they're like a staircase: you don't jump to the top of a staircase, you climb one step at a time.
Don't jump ahead to crossovers because you will develop some bad habits that will stop you from learning the higher-level stuff.
Forward crossovers are in Basic 4. You should be working on things in Basic 1 or 2 right now. That will help you move up to Basic 2, and then you can work on Basic 2 and 3 elements. See the progression? It will make your lesson time more productive and really refine your skating skills needed so that learning an advanced skill at the proper time will be much easier.
Forward crossovers are a great example - many skaters can do a one-foot glide on a flat - meaning, no edges. That's nice, but to do forward crossovers, they first have to master proper stroking, have excellent balance, hold their shoulders and hips correctly, and be able to hoooold the one-foot edges on a curve.
Work on these things before Basic 4 and forward crossovers:
. One foot glides . Stroking with proper pushoffs (inside edge of blade, not the toepick) . Forward 1/2 swizzle pumps - on the line or on a circle . Forward one-foot glides, curving with a circle on both the outside and inside edges of each foot.
The skaters that haven't mastered those skills stand out at the rink when they do crossovers because they can't get their free foot all the way across, they move in a straight line instead of a curve, they trip or drop their foot down due to poor balance, and they basically look like horses stomping around. Not what you want to look like at the rink.
You don't want to fake these elements - you should be able to master them and look like a skater, not a horse. Don't rush trying to teach yourself - just practice the things you've learned and you'll be a wonderful skater, not a faker.
It's really important to make the most of your lesson and practice time by building these "foundation" elements before you learn the higher-level things, so take your time.
How to perform properly forward C-cuts for beginners
C-cuts: Pushing with your weight on your heels and your skate makes the shape of a 'C'.
Teaching a c-cut, which procedure works best with students?
Have the student assume their stance and pump both feet outward and bring them back in. Do it several times in a row so that they can get the feeling of catching the ice with their heel. Then have them do it in one place where they go forward and then back, forward and then back etc. Finally tell them to cut it in half and only do it with one leg.
The forward c-cut doesn't always make sense to a beginner because your stride comes forward yet you move forward. Its counter-intuitive. But when you do it with both legs at the beginning of the drill they are forced into catching the ice with their heel and they will know what it should feel like.
What Is The "C - Cut Push" And How - Laura Stamm Power Skating
When I first started teaching power skating in 1971 I needed to find a name for a certain push that is used or incorporated into many hockey maneuvers. Because I believe in using visualization techniques to enhance learning I finally came up with the name "C - cut" to describe this push.
As far as I know, this term was not previously used or even defined. In my first book (1977) I devoted an entire chapter to C - cuts. Amazingly the term "stuck". Today it is commonly used in the hockey world. I often hear coaches telling their players, "C - cut, C - cut," during backward skating moves.
The C - cut maneuver is done with both skates on the ice. The C - cut push is usually executed by pushing the outside skate (and leg) against the inside edge of the blade while gliding on the inside skate. The Forward C - Cut:
When skating forward the C - cut push cuts an upside down letter "C" into the ice. The following explanation uses the left leg for power (pushing leg) and the right leg for direction (gliding leg).
Start by pivoting the pushing (left) skate at a right angle to the gliding (right) skate that is pointed forward along the direction of travel. The skates are now in a reverse "L" position. Push the left skate and leg first to the back, then out to the side, then forward. To complete the push you must then recover the skate and leg inward to the mid-line of the body. During the entire maneuver the gliding skate travels forward in a straight line.
The pattern that the push cuts into the ice resembles the letter C. When pushing with the right skate and leg the push resembles an upside down and reverse letter C.
The forward C - cut push is important when doing tight turns. It is the first push of the tight turn; it is used when entering the turn. It is also used with great success in a maneuver I call "bulling" or "protecting the puck" to power around a defender who is trying to take the puck or to take you out of the play. The advantage of using C - cuts in this situations is that both feet are always on the ice, allowing the player to maintain balance while at the same time being able to push powerfully.
Goalies use forward C - cut pushes when moving a short distance out of the net and backward C - cut pushes to quickly back up into the net. [Backward C-cut push: Right Leg Driving Leg. Skater Alan Noble. Action Shots Photography]
The Backward C - Cut:
When skating backward the C - cut push cuts the letter "C" into the ice. The following explanation uses the left leg for power (pushing leg) and the right leg for direction (gliding leg).
Start by pivoting the pushing (left) skate at a right angle to the gliding (right) skate which is pointed straight backward along the direction of travel. The skates are now in a reverse and upside down "L" position. Push the left skate and leg first to the front, then out to the side, then back. To complete the push you must recover the skate and leg inward to the midline of the body. During the entire maneuver the gliding skate travels backward in a straight line.
When skating straight backward the C - cut push IS the push of the backward stride. It also is the very important first push of backward crossovers and backward crossover starts.
Backward C-Cuts (Video Clip)
All hockey players need to be comfortable skating backward as well as forward. When you can skate backward with speed and mobility you can be counted on during power plays and in short handed situations. Think of how much more ice time you'll get. Think of how valuable you'll become to your team!
SPEED is the name of the game. The C - cut push is one of the important components of speed.
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