3 Things Mcdavid Does That Power Skating Coaches Never Teach

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3 Things McDavid Does That Power Skating Coaches Never Teach

Everyone wants to skate like Connor McDavid and with all the miss-information on the internet it’s rarely taught what he is really doing to generate so much skating speed, which is the gap this week's video closes. We take three things that separate him from the other superstar skaters and put them side by side with what traditional power skating still teaches, and those differences are massive, because they better allow a player to skate downhill, loose, relaxed and effortless, instead of applying old powerskating methods and sub-optimal mechanics.

When you are not wasting energy with every stride, you don’t gas out as fast, which frees your brain up to make the next play or better see the ice and take what is given. It is not that these subtle differences looks different, it is that when the body is working so hard just to keep up to game speed you shut it down to optimizing play making and more specifically decision making.

Once you see it, you can't un-see it.

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