The teaching of skating skills has always been a challange and has often been difficult for both coaches and players to understand. More often than not, skating drills are focused on conditioning and little focus placed on technical development.
The ELLIS METHOD: A series of drills that guides a skater through a progression of simple, natural movements that will develope a powerful, efficient skating technique.
The ELLIS METHOD is based on the basic principles of movement. The drills are both simple to teach and easy to learn. Practicing these drills on a regular basis will allow any player, no matter their age or skill level, to:
Improve their Skating both Forward & Backward
Feel an Increase in Power
Increase Acceleration
Have Faster Starts
Improve Stability & Balance
The Ellis Edge offers Camps & Clinics as well as Books and CDs for:
Players
Coaches
Hockey Associations and Teams
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Skating is the foundation of Hockey!
Sue Ellis, is recognized as a technical expert world wide. Sue's expertise comes from her 30+ years in the sport of Speed Skating including:
- 2002 US Olympic Short Track Team Coach
- 2000 US Speed Skating Coach of the Year
- 2 time finalist 3M Canada Coach of the Year
- 1995 New Brunswick Coach of the Year
- 14 years as Provincial Coach and Technical Director for Speed Skate New Brunswick
- Member of the Canadian National Short Track Team
"The golden rule of any conditioning programm is specificity. This means that the movement you perform in training should match, as closely as possible, the movements encountered during competition."
Peak Performance The Power of Plyometrics, Part 2 of 6
Techni-Cords were designed exactly for this purpose!
Techni-Cords allow you to execute movements both slowly, and dynamically to establish proper body angles, sequence of movement and timing for straight-away strides, corners and starts.
On Ice: 6:30 – 8 p.m.