(dramatic rock music)
- Hey, guys, Jeremy
here from How To Hockey.
In this video, you're gonna meet Joakim.
He's skating instructor
all the way from Sweden,
and in the summer time,
he was brought to the
MasterCard Center in Toronto,
with his team,
to work with an elite
group of hockey players.
So he invited me to come out
and record some of his drills
and his philosophies,
so that's what I have.
Recorded it all, and I'm
gonna pass it on to you.
Let's go take a look at the footage.
- You have to dare, dare, dare.
- Everything we're gonna
do today is, I suppose,
stuff you don't do.
We're gonna do a lotta edgeworks,
we gonna work with the edges.
We gonna do, we gonna
go as deep as you can,
as deep as you can all the time,
and when we do the edge work,
I'm gonna challenge you every time.
We're gonna go hands, elbows, shoulders,
and we know that you don't
do that when you play, but...
we do it because we want a
good control of your body,
we wanna have the balance
muscles in the core.
That's everything.
And we wanna have control
over the edges into the ice.
And if you can do it,
like on your shoulder
or on your elbow or whatever,
for sure, you're gonna be a better skater.
In the end, it's earning time,
winning time, like half
a second, like whatever.
If the players dump the puck behind you
when you make your turns,
can you win like a little time,
you gonna make you through
the first pass good.
Like I said, I'm gonna challenge you,
and I want you to try so hard
that you fall every time.
Challenge yourself,
that's the key word today.
So I start challenge you right away.
We start like this, little
bit wider than the shoulders.
The reds go too.
And the elbows,
outside your knees.
Get deep, straight feet.
Reds goes down, everybody goes down.
No inside edge, no outside edge.
All the way down, and then,
we're gonna go up,
up all the way.
Try to get a little bit deeper
for every second you glide.
Okay, let's go.
As deep as you can, as deep as you can.
So from side, from there, here, and...
Okay?
The edge will not go inside outside,
it's gonna be like straight.
You understand what I mean?
So try to have it as quiet as you can.
And if you think it's too easy,
you gonna come
bam, bam, here...
Okay?
Right leg.
I want you to go 'til you fall this time.
So you go from there, bam,
up, up, up, up, up, bam (falls).
Okay?
Do we understand?
Go as long 'til you fall,
so you feel where the breaking point is.
As wide as you can, you
gonna be like out there.
Out, out, out.
And listen, listen to the turn.
Do you hear anything?
Like it's gonna be as quiet as you can.
We talk about the comfort zone, right?
The comfort zone is
that's the comfort zone, okay?
Try to get all the hand,
all the hand to the ice.
And I promise you, you're not
gonna make it like this, okay?
You need to go bam, bam, all the way down.
All the way down.
And if you think it's easy,
you're gonna go here, okay?
From bam, bam, bam, use
your core and your edges.
I told a few of you that the
worst thing that could happen
is that you fall, right?
This is the worst thing that could happen,
that you go like this.
Bam, bam, bam.
That's the worst thing that could happen.
So don't be afraid to get deep.
So, one hour skating, was it fun?
- [Hockey Player] Oh yeah.
- It is, right?
Yeah, it's fun to challenge yourself.
And you make progress.
It's one thing with all good skaters
like in all levels that I work with,
everybody are...
Smooth, outside the ice.
Really smooth, they get
their ass to the ice easy.
So if you wanna be a good skater,
winning time at the ice,
get smooth.
That's my tips.
And if you make this good,
you gonna shoot harder,
you gonna pass harder, you
gonna body check harder,
everything's gonna be better.
Because everything is in the core.
- [Hockey Player] If the core's
not good, nothing's good.
- So yeah, when you shoot,
you bam, with the core.
When you pass, bam with
the core, body check.
You have skaters in my size
that are hard in the body
like it feels like you are
going into a stone or something.
Like ugh, they have the balance muscles.
- You gotta go dig in
- Yeah.
and like just and you gotta hold onto it.
- Yeah.
Was it hard?
Need to spread the feet, spread
the feet from each other.
If you stand like this,
you cannot bring your skates
out, right, with straight legs.
It stops here.
But if you get your ass to the ice,
and spread your feet, yeah, you see?
You can be down there
having coffee, right?
There, if you're going
up, it's impossible.
And then, when you're out
there, yes go on outside edge.
Then you're gonna make it.
(playful folk music)
- [Jeremy] What do you feel
is the most important thing
that you can pass on through the drills?
- Smoothness, smoothness, or body control.
- So somebody wants to come up to a camp,
how can they find you?
- They find us on,
either they inbox us
on Instagram @jrm.skatesandskills
or at the website, jrmskatesandskills.com
No! Dot-S-E (laughter)
- Alright, thanks a lot.
- Yeah, thanks.
