Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method: The Art of Technique Applied to Hockey Skating
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Relying on her nearly three decades of experience teaching hundreds of hockey players, Eileen Peerless shares practical skills that can be used in real game situations. Peerless divides her guidebook into three sectionsbalance, stride, and agility. She provides a solid foundation of step-by-step methods, team and individual drills, and clear illustrations that will help any hockey player develop into an excellent skater. Skaters will learn how to:
improve balance by developing better edge control and skate placement;
implement a strong, powerful stride that uses the body for strength;
master agility and increase speed by turning and stopping properly.
Knowing where the body belongs in every skating maneuver is critical to improving skating technique, speed, and balance. Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method provides the kind of methods that, with practice and dedication, will lead both beginning and advanced hockey athletes to achieve unlimited success on the ice.
Eileen Peerless
Eileen Peerless earned her degrees in pedagogy and education and is a power skating specialist and technician. With over three decades of experience in skills development, she has been widely recognized for her technique training for hockey players and has been heard on NPR.
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Eileen Peerless Power Skating Method - Eileen Peerless
Contents
Acknowledgement
Introduction
Chapter One: Balance
Chapter Two: Stride
Chapter Three: Agility
Conclusion
Acknowledgement
Before this book had taken shape, the mother of one of my students, Jerene Maune (Thieman), an avid photographer, began taking pictures of some of my students. When I saw the results of her work and how good my students looked, I was amazed. I knew they were good skaters, but their skating abilities, as captured in Jerene’s photos, convinced me that I had to get a book written to share my thoughts, ideas, and theories on the art of technique as it applies to skating and as it is demonstrated by my students. The students in the photographs in the book (and in the DVD) range in age from nine to eighteen.
Thanks to all my students who have worked with me over the years. A special thank you to Micah Dabao, Melvyn John Nichols, and Matt Ibarra, whose pictures comprise most of the examples in the book, and to Shawn Hart, the goalie. A thank you to the eight who took part in the making of the DVD: Melvyn John Nichols, Micah Dabao, Cole Simpson, Max Simpson, Sam Bentlin, and William Crane.
This effort would not have been possible without the parents of the skaters. The parents’ belief in my method, their support of their children through each lesson, and their belief in the abilities of their children to be the best they can be are worthy of recognition. It is not always easy to attend lessons every week, month after month, year after year, but these parents did, and the results of their unwavering support is demonstrated in this book. I have been very fortunate to have had the loyalty and trust of the parents and skaters in all that I have done.
All the photos are of my students. The photographs with the skaters in full gear were taken by Josh Dubois, a New York-based freelance videographer and photographer. He also did all the filming and editing of the DVD.
All other photographs, with minor exceptions, were taken by Jerene. She gave of her time and enthusiasm to the project of photographing three of my students, Micah, (age eleven), Melvin John (age fourteen), and Matt (age sixteen), in action during a practice session. This book reflects not only her great photography but also her time and her cheerleading in getting me moving on this book.
I also want to thank Trina Taylor, site manager, and Carl Kirtley, rink director, of the Mt. Vernon Recreational Center in Alexandria, Virginia, where the video and photographs were made, and the Fairfax County Park Authority: Barbara Nugent, division director, Park Services Division, and Judy Pederson, Public Information officer. I have had a long and pleasant association with the ice rink at the Mt. Vernon Recreational Center.
missing image fileIntroduction
This book represents my experience teaching skating to many hockey players of all ages and abilities. It presents my ideas on skating and the emphasis I place on the importance of the body to skating. The techniques outlined in this book are what I have used and have found to be most effective.
The techniques are based in large part on my own background in skills development. I have an undergraduate degree in pedagogy and a graduate degree in education. I have had the good fortune to learn skill building from some great teachers who knew the importance of technique to learning and mastering a skill. My background includes years of practicing and mastering technique at the highest levels. The one constant I have found is that the application of one skill can be applied to another.
For several years, I ran a hockey skating school where I used the techniques presented in this book. I place great importance on acquiring and building a solid skating foundation (technique). Technique building can take several years, but the reward to the skater is being able to play the game at its highest level.
My book includes three chapters: Balance,
which includes edge control and body placement; Stride,
both forward and backward; and Agility.
Since edges are used in every single skating skill, the better the edges, the better the balance, the better the skating. Knowing where the body belongs in every skating maneuver is critical to improving both skating technique and balance.
A strong, powerful stride enables the skater to play the game at a higher level. An inadequate stride is a hindrance to speed. My students first learn the skill of striding, then learn it with power, and then with agility.
Agility includes quickness. Speed can come through power or quickness. Each has its place in a game situation and each should be mastered. In chapter one, I present one skill using power, and in chapter three, the same skill for agility and quickness.
Each skater learns differently from the next. While there may be one correct way to perform a skating skill, such as a forward or backward crossover, there are many ways, depending on the age and ability of the skater, to reach that skill.
Bad habits are easy to acquire but extremely difficult to