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Guest wrote: ↑Wed Feb 12, 2025 7:52 pm
Just follow who the best kids train with. Figure skating coaches are a waste of money. My kid hates it. We were lucky enough to meet the best trainer that can skate, shoot and stick handle better than any coach I have seen. He is great at explaining it and gives my kid off ice workouts to help fix some of the technique issues. Figure skating coaches just do the same cookie cutter stuff and look like they can barely skate in hockey skates but charge $150-200. It’s like asking the guy who mows your lawn if he can lay the cement for your deck. They do not have a clue what it’s like to skate and protect the puck.
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But all these trainer listed in this thread are figure skaters. Yeah yeah even if they're wearing hockey skates. What gives?
Because parents do not know better. Find a good power skating coach that can fly, handle a puck and explain how to skate for hockey.
The figure skating coaches are good for little kids, but if you want a good coach, you have to find an elite hockey skating coach that knows what its like to play the game of hockey, not do double axles
The parents that do know better keep this kind of stuff to themselves.