Hockey stop
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A hockey stop is a specific and primary way of stopping on ice skates while playing ice hockey
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The hockey stop allows the skater to change directions quickly, keeping up with play. It takes practice to effectively stop facing both ways. As with dribbling in basketball
, most skaters are stronger stopping one direction over another (ie. stop right as opposed to left)
To hockey stop, once the skater has assumed some speed
, he/she, while always in the hockey position, will rapidly pivot their hips 90 degrees.
The pivot turns the skates, and the skater is using both skates to stop. The outside skate uses the inside edge to stop while the inside skate uses the outside edge to stop. Greater weight distribution will be on the outside skate
. If the weight is shifted towards the inside skate, that edge can lose grip causing the skater to fall.
Edges on both skates are used to stop. Sometimes skaters like to use just the inside edge of their outside skate. While they are still stopping, it takes longer and more energy as well as wears out the edges faster.
As with the hockey position, the legs in a hockey stop will be about shoulder width apart, and shoulders parallel to the ice for best balance
distribution.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
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The hockey stop allows the skater to change directions quickly, keeping up with play. It takes practice to effectively stop facing both ways. As with dribbling in basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, most skaters are stronger stopping one direction over another (ie. stop right as opposed to left)
To hockey stop, once the skater has assumed some speed
Speed
In kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity ; it is thus a scalar quantity. The average speed of an object in an interval of time is the distance traveled by the object divided by the duration of the interval; the instantaneous speed is the limit of the average speed as...
, he/she, while always in the hockey position, will rapidly pivot their hips 90 degrees.
The pivot turns the skates, and the skater is using both skates to stop. The outside skate uses the inside edge to stop while the inside skate uses the outside edge to stop. Greater weight distribution will be on the outside skate
Skate
Skates are cartilaginous fish belonging to the family Rajidae in the superorder Batoidea of rays. There are more than 200 described species in 27 genera. There are two subfamilies, Rajinae and Arhynchobatinae ....
. If the weight is shifted towards the inside skate, that edge can lose grip causing the skater to fall.
Edges on both skates are used to stop. Sometimes skaters like to use just the inside edge of their outside skate. While they are still stopping, it takes longer and more energy as well as wears out the edges faster.
As with the hockey position, the legs in a hockey stop will be about shoulder width apart, and shoulders parallel to the ice for best balance
Balance (ability)
In biomechanics, balance is an ability to maintain the center of gravity of a body within the base of support with minimal postural sway. When exercising the ability to balance, one is said to be balancing....
distribution.