Laura Stamm Power Skating

Skating is 90 % of the sport of ice hockey, the name of the game. As in every sport, technique is critical to performance. Because skating is not a natural motion, Laura Stamm created the Laura Stamm Power Skating System to teach and to correctly develop the ability to perform the numerous and complex skating maneuvers required in hockey. Laura Stamm Power Skating is technique training for explosive speed and it is proven by the Hockey Pros since 1973.

Laura Stamm Power Skating is hockey specific, geared to the sport and to the players who want to reach their hockey potential. The focus is not to drill, but to teach how and assign drills that help players feel the correct way to execute each maneuver with speed, agility, balance, strength, and efficiency.

by Laura Stamm

After pushing off, fully extend your pushing (left) leg and drag the first two or three inches of the left inside edge (called "the toe") on the ice for about two seconds. In order to drag the inside edge of the toe your left leg and skate must be turned outward. If they are turned straight downward you will be dragging the "tippy toe" of the skate, with the leg now in a walking-running position (a "no-no" for skating).

After dragging the toe, now drag the heel of the returning skate back under your body until that heel (left) touches the heel of the gliding (right) skate. Your feet should now be in a "V" position (heels touching, toes apart). If your knees are well bent, the shape between your thighs, knees and ankles will form a "diamond" shape. I call this recovery position the "V - diamond" position.

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