Skating Backwards in Ice Hockey

Video Transcript

"All right. Similar to the skating forward is backwards skating. What you're going to do is, you're doing the same thing. You're bending at your knees. You're leaning forward. Legs spread apart and you're going to generate the power, but in front of you instead of backwards. And you're going to make like S's and that gives you the power and you can do crossovers. Always stay low and keep your feet spread apart. That's skating backwards. It's as easy as that. If you practice it a lot you can get really good. Defensemen, it's really important for them to learn how to skate backwards, since you're doing it all the time. Forwards definitely should know how to do that to. It's a valuable part of the game."