Inliner Übungen Teil 1: Kantenarbeit

Hi everybody! Today at Marcel's Hockey School we're starting with a two-part mini-series about powerskating on inlines. Today we'll be doing edge work, and in the second episode we'll be taking a look at our running technique. The summer break in Germany is quite long. We can't go ice skating here in Landsberg for 5 months. And I think, going on inlines in the summer is fun when the weather is nice outside, and secondly, you get the feeling for something similar to ice skating, you can work on your running technique, it's a good thing. We'll start right away. This video will be divided into three parts. We'll start with the basics, then we'll go on to the hip-opener-like exercises, and then at the end we'll do a few exercises that are a bit more challenging. So, to the basics. The first exercise we always do with the basics is the deep glide, because I always want my players to go as deep into the ice as possible when they do the other exercises. As deep as possible, almost to the ground at the back. Second exercise, on the inside edge. The big push-off is maybe a bit difficult on the asphalt, but make sure that you're deep, and that you do nice, long S-curves. Always control your strokes, the hand can go deep, and now, to the outside edge. On the asphalt, I'll do this with transitions. On the back, it's a bit more difficult without transitions. Again, control your strokes, big, slow transitions, now without. And now, to the last basic exercise, the egg-run. Normally, we only do the egg-run with real beginners. Here, we'll do it with a backhand. It's actually very good for later transitions, and it's also a bit more challenging than the normal egg-run. It looks like this. Make sure that both in-liners are on the asphalt the whole time. In the beginning, you'll want to do the following, when you come out of the underhook, lift your leg, and bring it back to the outside edge. It looks like this. Try to avoid it as much as possible. Out, underhook, and glide out again. Now we come to part two, the hip-openers. I think you can do hip-openers, or cross-bees as they're called, really well on in-liners. It hardly feels different than most, Let's start in a straight line. On the way up, I'll always lift my front foot. That's a bit easier. And on the way back, I'll try to keep both in-liners on the ground. Nice gliding, open up your hips, big turns. So, that's the first hip-opener exercise. But we don't do that as often in the game. We'll do something a bit more like a game. When we come out of the corner or behind the goal, we have our face to the field, we have the puck, we put the puck on our stick. You can do any exercise with a puck. We're going to try to pedal and pump, and to pick up speed in a circle. The other way around. Really pump with both legs, so you can pick up a lot of speed. So, to the third hip-opener exercise. It happens a lot when you come out of the corner in a game. You open up once, with your back to the opponent. This often confuses the opponent. This little extra step. Maybe you'll stop for a bit, and then you'll have more space. We're going to cross over once, and open up our hips once, with our back to the middle of the circle. It looks like this. Cross over, open up. The other way around. I love to practice the hip-opener on tarmac. I've been using Marsblades for a year now, for my inlines, but of course you can practice them with a normal inline as well. Marsblades have a slightly more similar feel to them, So now we come to the last part, the slightly more challenging exercises. There are three of them. We'll start with the Mika Reuter Special. He knows it a lot better than I do, but I'll try it here. We'll go one leg inwards, one leg outwards, all the way down, and also back. We'll pick up a bit of speed. Mika doesn't need to pick up any speed, but I do! You really have to make sure that you pump with both legs. The leg that's on the tarmac, and the other leg always picks up speed as well. If you only pump with one leg, you don't stand a chance. And on the inline, you have to almost, almost, not quite, but almost, when you're on the inner edge, jump a bit. Now we come to my favorite powerskating exercise on the ice. If you can do this on the inline, you're a real pro! That's the triple run. From the outer edge, to the inner edge, and turn. And back. Outer edge, inner edge, turn. Try not to jump. That's also possible. And now for the last exercise. We often practice a bit too little backwards running We don't want to neglect that. We're now going to the inner edge. Backwards, much more difficult than forwards. We're also going to do nice S-curves, and make sure that if you want to land on the other leg, that you keep as much momentum as possible. I think two hands on the stick is always best, and check your upper body. Let's go! Push-off, glide. Back. Push-off. So that's it for part one. Powerskating inline at Marcel's Hockey School. If you do this for 10-15 minutes, as you can see, I'm really out of breath now. It's a great workout, gives you a great feeling on the inline. I wish you all a great summer training. Have fun practicing, and see you next time at Marcel's Hockey School!