How to stop in skating?
What you want to learn how to do is the hockey stop. First, break it down into small steps; the first one being the snow plow stop. Master the snow plow stop (the one where you push both feet to the side) then move on. The next step is to master the “T-stop.” This can be achieved by skating forward, then putting your left (or right) skate’s heel touching the back of the other skate (forming a “T”) and it should be perpendicular to the other skate. Mastering those two stops gives you a feeling of using the outside and inside edges of the skates. When you do the actual hockey stop you’ll be using the front inside edge of the skate in front and the back outside edge of the skate in behind. To actually get down the hockey stop you have to twist really fast, digging into the ice. It takes time, and you’ll definitely fall a few times. Good luck!
