Bearfoot Hockey

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A former CanSkate Figure Skater Senior Dance 3; 1996 Minnesota North Stars prospect; 1992 NCAA D1 scholarship, Northern Michigan University, ECHL, CoHL, WHL, AJHL, SJHL, 1992 Estevan Bruins South Division Champions, 1992 Estevan Bruins Top Scorer and 100 Point Club, 1992 SJHL All Star; 1995-1996 Conestoga College OCAA League Leading Scorer, All-Star Ontario Collegiate Athletics Association. 2012 Retired Pro MMA and current Professional Skating Coach of Bearfoot Hockey.

Bearfoot Hcokey specializes in developing skating balance

Proven results that speak for themselves.

Video

This is called the Bearfoot Clip. Very 1st in world!

The Bearfoot Clip is designed to help you glide on the middle of the blade, these clip on all 4 spots, in front and back of the front of plastic holders.

These clips define the balance on the center of the blade, which defines your body position and muscles for best balance and agility.

Lean too forward, or back, these clips will slip which is telling you to adjust your body position. You can then reattach he clip and continue the drills.

all drills connect and please send me your results!

Bear Cones

This drill is the start to series of cone drills that help develop your Gyroscope. Starting side to side with cone in middle, then front to back will help center your Axis and smooth your center of gravity. After a couple weeks you can adjust your feet positioning at various degrees around your circle, and set cones at 4 corners

With Bearfoot lunge, 100% stride possible.

This is a critical drill is slow at the start, and speed slowly increases over the 6 week session. Stay low, and your Axis will follow as you begin to cross your feet tight and always be touching the feet on each outside. Start 3 X 3 by 3 sets. Increase the steps and sets each week for the 6 weeks. Remove shoes on grass, sand for tighter depth. Again, start slow and increase speed slightly after 2 weeks and always think light feet!

Bear Sweeps

The Bearfoot Sweeps are drills that help you maintain your center of Gravity while give your Axis zero degree pivotal grounding.

By lowering your body so one leg is fully extended with the foot flat on the surface, you have to maintain the flat foot as you

bring your foot back around the radius of the circle you make with your feet on each side always focusing on maintaining

the middle as your Axis and Center of gracvity shifts

Bear Spins

This drill trains your body to extend from your Zero degree Axis and expands your Center of Gravity range. Start with 2 feet each way and then 1 foot, working both planes of the Axis. Start with 1/4 turns each circle, then 1/2 turns, then 3/4 turns and then finally full turns going each way 3 times each set. Add a turn a day, set a week and then vary as your training progresses

Training Blindfolded

Skating is about senses and how you're connected to the surface, not speed or power. In order to obtain speed and power, you must know where you are going. Training to GLIDE on top of the surface allows your ankles to move freely on a hinge, which gives you the best option for balance as you are training to skate where the middle. Training with a blindfold....gives your better depth.

(very 1st time trying this blindfolded, yes it works)

Natural liquid

Bear Flow

To add balance to your skating, learning how to liquid will improve your overall balance. You can transfer your energy where you desire, also absorbing incoming energy, and move it where you like.

To begin, these moves will give depth to your hands, legs, essentially...shocks, this will you extra time to adjust in real time ice situations.

Use natural settings such as houses, buildings, trees etc to "shape your hands". This trains your body and hands to move in sequence, you can maneuver through the play because you can move your energy like liquid.

Bruce Lee... Be water.

Bear Flow

Add gloves to continue finding your flow, this gloves will make your lines/curves etc more visible. Continue to pick natural/city features in front of you. Follow the lines....and keep the feet light. By adding gloves, this creates space between your hands so you have to adjust your fingers and hands to meet in the middle, thereby adding depth to your hands.

Ball spacers

Balls will help add depth by the sizing of distance between each ball. This helps you define your strengths in your hand eye coordination. This will also help you trace your box, to show you where your shot strength range is

All work no play...

Training is hard...and fun... and this is one of those times! This particular drill use mickey mouse gloves, this adds depth to your hands by creating a "cushion space" between you hands that build another layer to your "3D level" that allows you more hand finger corrodination for passes and pucks

Random flow

You can literally practise....dance....anywhere

Before and after videos

Before Video

Raven is another training success story and is seen here in his first video. As you can see he is an average skater with high choppy strides as the entire body leans back, indicating a stiff Axis and poor balance. Raven in fact, has had a previous spinal injury in the C Lumbar area so it contributed to his hesitant choppy skating. if I can train an athlete with a spinal injury to smoother skating, your skating can be smoother too!

Before video

Raven is on defense and continues to skate "high" and choppy strides. His skating stride is about to change to more assertive and confident, you can compare crossovers with the next video

After Video

Raven is skating down the middle and turns towards the score keepers....watch how fast his crossovers become! He is much more comfortable skating and says hes more confident in his play because he can now skate better!

Anthonys Quest to smoother blading

Anthony before and after

I met Anthony on the path, watch his entry stride how he was standing tall, timid and how tense he was. In the After video, his center of gravity lowered down, leaning back as he pushes from Zero degree plane of Axis... and looking more relaxed and confident as he casually cruising now!

Anthony Training

This is just one drill helps you center your Plane of Axis and defining your center of gravity. This helped Anthony begin to stride from the middle as he brought his knees 1st from the "Zero degree Plane of Axis" and then pushed out. This helped him get 100% of his stride, and his confidence!

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important drills

Bearfoot Lunge

Bearfoot Lunge Dip Twist.