{"id":845,"date":"2011-01-05T00:05:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hockeyshare.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2011-01-05T00:05:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T06:05:28","slug":"backward-quick-starts-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/backward-quick-starts-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Backward Quick Starts [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our first video of 2011, we wanted to go over a topic we covered at one of our recent holiday camps &#8211; backward quick starts. \u00a0The backward quick start is an often overlooked skill essential for both defensemen and forwards.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P9rfpFENmpY<\/p>\n<p>Key Teaching Points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low, powerful stance<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t stand up when you cross over<\/li>\n<li>Start\u00a0perpendicular\u00a0to the direction you want to go<\/li>\n<li>Load the weight to your front leg and push powerfully, driving your toe into the ice (weight on the balls of your feet)<\/li>\n<li>Generate power with your under-leg by pulling with the outside edge<\/li>\n<li>Listen for two distinct pushes<\/li>\n<li>Keep your head and chest up<\/li>\n<li>Keep your stick in front of you<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Stay tuned &#8211; tomorrow we&#8217;ll post a quick video outlining a couple practice drills for the backward quick start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our first video of 2011, we wanted to go over a topic we covered at one of our recent holiday camps &#8211; backward quick starts.  The backward quick start is an often overlooked skill essential for both defensemen and forwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[154,203,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845"}],"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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.hockeyshare.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}