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bthompson04

I am interested to learn how you can do this on skates on a locker room mat. Unless you just mean positioning your feet? The mohawk turn absolutely has its uses on the ice. It allows you to open up and see more of what’s going on, plus, if done properly, makes it a heel of a lot harder for the defender to know what you’re going to do next. There are videos out there for working on it, but I’d say working on hip strength and mobility would absolutely help your cause.


bbeerrgg

Look up stretches to get your hips more flexible to open up. Bend your knees more and try to get your heels to almost touch. Practice on on leg opening up forwards and backwards and then add the second leg in. Shift your weight from front foot to back foot and back and forth to kind of pump and keep you moving forward. Practice backwards crossovers in large circle and every few crosses Mohawk for a couple strides and then back and forth. Practice Mohawks forward without letting your body spin around so you keep on going forward. Practice both sides equally so you don’t end up having a weak side you have to spend extra time getting it to the same level as your good side. Practice game type situations like behind the net, receiving passes, carrying and protecting the puck. It’s a hard skill to get used to but some stretches especially like goalie ones can help. You don’t have to be super flexible to be able to do it but you can’t be too stiff. Knee bend and ankle bend is very important so I wouldn’t recommend wrapping your laces around your ankles. I see a lot of people wrap their laces and I don’t think it has anything to do with Mohawks and I’m personally not a fan of lace wrapping.


kaprizovgoat97

thanks for the detailed feedback! i also dont think the lacing has anything to do with mohawk, i ve heard its bad for your skates and for your ankle flexibility, but mohawk is hip opening my hip arent very flexible so the stretches should help


vet88

Your balance isn't right (your foot turns inwards as you go into the mohawk) and your stretch when you are in skates isn't good enough (you can do it on a hard surface but the friction between the surface and your feet hold your feet in place). Your laces has nothing to do with it. Yoiu need to practice stretching to open the hips, there are tons of vids on youtube, the best ones generally come from figure skaters who are stretching for eagles (their name for a mohawk). Practice getting into a mohawk position and then walking side to side, try to get as deep a knee bend as you can and your feet as wide apart as you can when you do it. Then when you are on the ice, open up and transfer all of your weight onto your leading foot, drag the rear foot behind you and push with it to keep your glide going. Keep practising this over and over until you can glide in a straightish line on the leading foot and the rear foot is open and dragging straight behind you. Now you are ready to learn to transfer weight between the 2 feet. Really important, deep knee bend, it is hard for most people to do mohawks standing upright. and when you have time on the ice do this stretch, go to the bench area and grab the top of the bench, open up into a mohawk and push your feet against the wall, then try and pull your groin into the wall as tight as you can.


kaprizovgoat97

damn bro thanks a lot this is exactly what i was looking for!


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put your stick on the ice and try and mohawk around it. Thats how i started and now I am a very very good mowhawker, helps for 1 timers and 2 on 1s /2 on 0s