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⛸ TECHNICAL
⛸ Position
- Starting the Season Off Right
- Taking Care of the Small Things
- The 3 Keys Checklist – Find the Key in the Basics First!
- Skating with Your Core
- The Basic Position – The Arch
- A Time to Get High, A Time to Get Low
- Upper Body / Chest Position
- Check Your Butt!
- Butt Power
- The Butt Tuck
- Hip Dip
- Bend the Ankle
- To Jump Links
⛸ Corners
- The Corner Lay In
- Corners – Working the Right Hip on the Lay In
- Bringing Right Hip Forward in Corner
- Chest In to Corner
- Moving Hips in the Corner
- Moving Hips In to Push
- Off Ice Training with Straps – Part 1 of a 2 Part Series
- On Ice Training with Straps – Part 2 of a 2 Part Series
- Bucket Drills
- Partner Pull / Chair Push
- The Corner Arm Swing
- To Jump Links
⛸ Straightaways
- Press In to Push
- Presscoopinchpushpinish
- Gather the Power
- Transferring Power from Ball of Foot to Ice – The Ankle Snap
- Transferring Power from Hip to Ball of Foot
- Transferring Power Hip to Hip
- Accelerating Your Weight In to Your Push
- Japanese Four Eyes Technique
- Delaying the Push – Straightaways
- The Straightaway Shuffle
- To Jump Links
⛸ Tracks
⛸ Assorted Technical
🏃 TRAINING
🏃 Planning
🏃 Youth
🏃 Specific
- Specificity in Training
- Specific Skating Training – Is Your Plan Specific Enough?
- Warm Ups and Warm Downs
- Off Ice Balance, Agility, and Co-ordination Training
- Dynamic Flexibility Training
- Flexibility Training a Must for Speed Skaters
- Maximize Your Results with TECHNI-CORDS
- Improving Your Power with Jumps
- Specific Strength, Power, Endurance – Part 1 – Straightaway
- Specific Strength, Power, Endurance – Part 2 – Straightaway Jumps
- Specific Strength, Power, Endurance – Part 3 – Corners
- Specific Strength, Power, Endurance – Part 4 – Starts
- Training for Starts
- Relay Racing – Part 1 – Skater Roles and Laps
- Relay Racing – Part 2 – The Exchange, Training Ideas
- Bucket Drills
- Partner Pull / Chair Push
- Core Strength for Speed Skating
- General Core Strength, by Brandon Aldan
- To Jump Links
🏆 STRATEGY AND TACTICS
- Strategy and Tactics – Part 1 – Overview
- Strategy and Tactics – Part 2 – Controlling the Pace and Track
- Strategy and Tactics – Part 3 – The Moves and Counter Moves
- Start Strategy
- Time Trialing
- The Slingshot Pass
- The Outside Pass
- The Inside Pass
- Punching Through Centrifugal Force – Position and Alignments
- Using Strategy and Tactics Under the New Rules
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2010-2014 Rules are for historical reference only
Consult the International Skating Union (ISU) Manual for current speed skating rules.
- Important Short Track Rule Changes for 2014
- Important Short Track Rule Changes for 2012
- Using Strategy and Tactics under the New Rules
- Important Short Track Rule Changes for 2010
- To Jump Links
🧠 PSYCHOLOGY
- How 5'5" Brandon Todd Learned to Dunk a Basketball
- Strategy for Success
- John Wooden on Success
- What Do You Have to Brag About?
- FOCUS!
- IT – The Success Factor
- To Try Is to Fail
- It's All About Winning
- How to Parent an Athlete: Lessons from a Swim Meet
- Children in Athletics
- Early Star vs Late Bloomer
- Time Trialing
- The Competition Plan
- Post Season Evaluation
- To Jump Links
🚑 SAFETY
🧰 OTHER
Ellis Edge Index
Preservation of Historical Content
The Santa Clarita Speed Skating Club (SCSSC) is honored to help preserve the tremendous body of work created by Sue Ellis. Our primary purpose of keeping the Ellis library available to the speed skating community is our effort to properly archive the tremendous contributions Sue Ellis made to the sport before retiring.
Conventions Change with Time
As with any sport, rules, strategies, conventions, training methods and technique change over time. SCSSC requests that skaters, coaches, and parents consult the International Skating Union (ISU) Manual, as well as the manual for their own national, state, or provincial governing bodies for current speed skating rules and modern conventions. The body of work presented here is meant as general guidelines only.
One of Sue's favourite quotes
If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. And even if you are winning now, eventually someone who has learned to do it better or different way is going to beat you. Keep learning and keep evolving!