High-Performance Skating for Hockey

Even the athletically challenged among us know that skating is one of the most fundamental skills in hockey, but did you know that it is also the most overlooked? Recommended by none other than Bobby Orr (who even the aforementioned athletically challenged have heard of!), this tape represents a well-produced, straightforward program for developing and refining those basic and advanced skating skills. Viewers will find 35 drills and exercises to strengthen a skater's balance and agility, forward and backward techniques, starting and stopping, turning and crossovers, and pivoting. Like many of its sports instruction cousins, this topic is absolutely ideal for video-treatment: the live action shots, complete with judicious use of slow-motion and stop-action, are much more helpful than simply reading descriptions in a book. Highly recommended. Aud: H, C, P. (K. Glaser)