{"id":800,"date":"2010-11-22T23:05:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T05:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2010-11-22T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T05:05:02","slug":"heel-to-heel-broken-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/heel-to-heel-broken-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Heel to Heel &#8211; Broken Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we got lots of great comments on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/m2-hockey\/heel-to-heel-transitions-video\/\">Heel to Heel transition video<\/a>. \u00a0Several people wrote in asking if we could do a slow motion \/ still frame breakdown of the technique. \u00a0In this post, I&#8217;ve taken several still shots and included a slow motion video of a heel to heel transition &#8211; as well as included\u00a0key points\u00a0for various stages of the transition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Slow motion video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[vimeo id=&#8221;17035381&#8243; w=&#8221;640&#8243; h=&#8221;512&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The below snap shot shows the beginning of the heel to heel transition. \u00a0This starts from a basic backwards c-cut stance. Players should NOT crossover before entering the position shown below.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Heel to Heel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/0f9e18c84a60dc124887c497ce0d71d16b50a3f1707e58094b7367cb097dc0ff6g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Knees Bent<\/li>\n<li>Heels come together<\/li>\n<li>Hips open up the direction you&#8217;re transitioning to<\/li>\n<li>Hands move the direction you&#8217;re transitioning to (this will bring the stick there next)<\/li>\n<li>Weight loaded onto the pushing leg (my left leg in the photo above)<\/li>\n<li>Weight should be toward the ball of your foot to avoid catching your heel into the ice while transitioning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The next freeze-frame shows the extension of the pushing leg (left leg in the photo).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Heel to Heel 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/3e3337a22117e661fac998c2ee3a35a1055221f114ee7e6a627fc360dc90318d6g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Direct your energy laterally, and don&#8217;t stand up (wasting your energy upwards)<\/li>\n<li>Hips and shoulders are now fully opened toward the new direction<\/li>\n<li>Complete extension of pushing leg (finishing with the toe of your skate leaving the ice)<\/li>\n<li>Hands moving in direction of the transition<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The snap shot below shows all the weight loaded onto the pushing leg (right leg in this photo).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Heel to Heel 3 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/c7c4ce3e040dcab45e2291febb2522a5a84824f1873f3432e895856a8a5b23ba6g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"405\" height=\"238\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Key Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Head leading the transition (looking to where you&#8217;re going)<\/li>\n<li>Weight fully loaded on pushing leg<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The final set of snap shots show a complete 180 degree transition using the heel to heel technique. \u00a0Again, this starts from a basic c-cut stance (photo 1), weight is loaded to the pushing leg (photo 2), and finally the pushing leg extends completely into the transition (photo 3).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Heel to Heel 180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/4ed4865fe7555545266eda3bdac1e570f098f6687ec4869f8723b9ca5b0b8bdd6g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Heel to Heel 180 - 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/53c8b7b1b5c7256923925e0d332afbce12e650119addb9e90a4aea4b5b8d97e66g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Heel to Heel 180 - 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mediafire.com\/imgbnc.php\/ac1a9d1b51e3070e4c31cb2ea1c98c1641098e528723bf6f1031f273374c5fbf6g.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"418\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we got lots of great comments on the Heel to Heel transition video. \u00a0Several people wrote in asking if we could do a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[203,256],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}