Laura Stamm Power Skating Canada

Skating is 90 % of the sport of ice hockey, the name of the game. As in every sport, technique is critical to performance. Because skating is not a natural motion, Laura Stamm created the Laura Stamm Power Skating System to teach and to correctly develop the ability to perform the numerous and complex skating maneuvers required in hockey. Laura Stamm Power Skating is technique training for explosive speed and it is proven by the Hockey Pros since 1973.

Laura Stamm Power Skating is hockey specific, geared to the sport and to the players who want to reach their hockey potential. The focus is not to drill, but to teach how and assign drills that help players feel the correct way to execute each maneuver with speed, agility, balance, strength, and efficiency.

by Laura Stamm

One of the most important agility moves in hockey is the pivot or tight turn. Wayne Gretzky was a master of this move. He used it magically to escape defenders and accelerate into open ice with the puck.

The pivot is a forward skating move in which the player executes a tight turn and emerges from it still skating forward, but in a new direction. It is an extremely important hockey move because it gives the player numerous options.

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