Квалификация

This drill evaluates skating speed and speed endurance. Players can perform the following two sequences simultaneously to use the whole ice, or they can perform them individually or consecutively on only one end. To incorporate backward skating, players can alternate skating forward and backward after stopping at each line. A stopwatch is used to time to 1/10 of a second.

Sequence 1

Player 1 starts at the goal line and skates to the near blue line and stops, skates back to the goal line and stops, skates to the center line and stops, and then skates back to the goal line.

Sequence 2

Player 2 starts at the other goal line and skates to the center line and stops, skates back to the goal line and stops, skates to the far blue line and stops, and then skates back to the goal line.