Free online courseHow to Hockey

Course Description

Becoming a better hockey player often starts with one overlooked area: skating. When your stance, balance, and edges are working for you, everything feels easier, from chasing down pucks to staying stable under pressure. This free online course is designed to help you build those fundamentals with clear demonstrations and simple cues you can apply immediately on the ice.

You will learn how a proper hockey stance affects power and stability, and why staying low with an effective knee bend helps you generate speed while protecting your balance. As you refine your posture, the course guides you into the essentials of edge control, showing how edges drive traction, turning, and clean stops. The goal is to help you understand what you are doing and why it works, not just copy a movement.

As you progress, you will practice drills that sharpen balance and improve your forward stride so you can move with less wasted energy. You will also develop reliable stopping technique for game situations, then move into backward skating with step-by-step guidance and common mistakes to avoid. Turning skills build on that foundation, helping you keep your center of gravity steady while changing direction at speed.

To make your skating feel game-ready, the course connects the dots with forward and backward transitions and crossovers, from beginner patterns to more advanced execution. By the end, you should feel more comfortable accelerating, changing direction, and stopping, including when skating backward. If you want a practical path to stronger skating fundamentals, this course offers a structured way to build control and confidence session by session.