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- All right, welcome back to beautiful LA,
San Pedro, at the harbor, here with Per from Marsblades.
And in the last video, we gave you some tips
that are gonna help you use your Marsblades
off the ice to improve your skills on the ice.
In this one, let's work on a little bit of stick handling.
So in the last video, we were working on
low stance, shuffle stride,
moving those feet really quickly.
Now we wanna tie that in, the same rhythm, into the hands.
So, quick hands, quick feet.
Shuffle stride and quick hands.
So, not moving the puck too much,
just tapping on each side.
And it's a nice challenge off the ice,
because you have a lot of extra friction,
you gotta make those corrections really quickly.
So, it's gonna be easy to mess up when you start.
Once you get it, you're gonna love it, though.
It looks like this.
Quick feet, quick hands.
Tap, tap, tap.
So that was perfect.
Nice quick hands, quick feet.
And you can do some variations of that.
You can start moving it a little to the right,
little to the left,
getting that control around the entire body.
And then from there, we can go from
getting that rhythm, the hands moving with the feet.
Now, in the next drill, we're gonna get them separated.
So, the hands are moving in opposite direction of the feet.
So, similar to the skating stride
or the slalom stride that we did,
where we're leaning, leaning,
we're gonna do that same thing,
except for with the puck.
So when our feet go one way,
our hands and the puck goes the other.
When our feet go the other way,
hands and feet come the other way.
So, separating upper body and lower body,
just like this.
So that one's great because it
requires a lot of coordination.
Not only are you working to
work those stabilizer muscles in the legs with Marsblades,
you're also trying to keep that puck
moving the opposite direction.
You can start nice and slow,
just getting a little bit of separation,
but as you get better, you wanna push yourself
to get more and more separation.
And you'll find you can use that a lot on the ice.
This next drill is great on working on puck recovery.
What happens with a lot of newer players,
lose the puck, comes off their stick,
and they watch it go behind them.
So I wanna help players work on a drill
that you can easily keep that puck on your stick.
All you have to do is stick handle,
kick that puck back up.
So it's a pretty simple drill,
and if you have the puck on your stick more often,
you're gonna score more often, right?
Who doesn't want that?
So this one's pretty simple, just work on
quick, easy stick handle.
Drop the puck back,
and then kick it back up with your foot.
Make sure that you're working on both feet.
Stretch yourself out.
This next one's a real fun drill,
awesome to do on the ice,
and if you can pull it off on the ice during a game,
you're gonna get some cheers from the bench.
So, instead of dropping the puck
into your feet and kicking it up,
we're gonna pull that puck behind us,
and then try to pull it from behind,
up through the legs, kick it up, and keep on going.
So it looks like this.
You have the puck on your shooting side,
you let it go behind, pull it up to the toe,
and then it comes off the Marsblades
and back up in front.
So that's a fun drill, it's a challenging one.
What we're doing there is dropping the puck behind us,
and then using the toe to pull it up.
If any of the guys out there want a bit of a challenge,
instead of using the toe, flip your blade over
and tap it wit the back end, and put it through.
It looks a bit silkier, and a little bit of a challenge.
So, speaking of challenges, I'm gonna give you one.
The last drill, what we're gonna do,
instead of one puck, you're gonna be going two pucks,
controlling them both down the whole way down.
You ready?
Let's go.
Oh, yeah, no problem.
All right, so there's a few drills
that are gonna challenge you,
and especially challenging having the Marsblades.
Not too difficult, but just gives you
that little extra something that's gonna
push your game to the next level.
So I really like having the Marsblades
while doing the off ice drills.
I wanna say thank you to Per from Marsblades
for having me out there.
- Thanks, man, it was great meeting you,
and I'm looking forward to meeting up again,
and creating some more great skating drills,
and stick challenges for your followers.
- For sure.
Do you have any advice for people following?
- I mean, just keep working hard every day,
and yeah, it's the only thing that will
take you to your goals.
- For sure, it's doing something daily,
working on stick handling, working on skating,
and just finding ways to challenge yourself, right?
Not doing the same ting over and over.
Find new ways to challenge yourself.
- Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that's what I
wanted to create with our product,
is something to challenge you more all the time.
So, like you say, the key to success
is to keep challenging yourself every day,
and not satisfy.
- For sure, and something that I've noticed is
some parents, they are reluctant
to get their kids in-line skates,
'cause they think it's gonna interfere
with their skating on the ice.
I'd say it's the exact opposite.
Get out there and just work on your skills.
Doing anything is better than nothing.
Especially using Marsblades,
you're gonna find that challenge where
it's gonna directly relate to being on the ice.
You look at a guy like Connor McDavid,
he said in interviews that he spent a lot of time
on in-line in his driveway working on his skating,
and you can see it clearly paid off, right?
So, that's it, guys.
Thanks a lot for watching,
and don't forget to subscribe to the channel,
the Hockey Movement, or How To Hockey,
and give Marsblades a follow on social media.
- Awesome, thanks.