Skate Like McDavid — Session 2

Skate Like McDavid · Session 2 · Early Winter

For players born 2016-2013

Connor McDavid is widely regarded as the fastest and best skater in NHL history. In a league full of elite skaters, he blows by the competition nightly — making outstanding skaters look average.

Watch him closely and you'll see it: a completely unique skating style, vastly different from anyone before him. It's not classic power skating, and it's not what most coaches are still teaching.

The old way. For decades, skating instruction has focused on long forward strides and full extension — the "classic power skating" model. It's outdated. It does not reflect how the NHL's best skaters — McDavid, MacKinnon, Makar, Kaprizov, Barzal — actually move today.

The new way. McDavid has the highest crossover-to-stride ratio in NHL history (3:1). He uses linear crossovers to hit top speed in a blink and his edges to dart in every direction. McDavid, MacKinnon, and Makar regularly deploy punch turns, 10 & 2's, outside edge rolls, and other evasive mechanics to shake checkers and create the time and space needed to make plays at full speed.

Kinesiologist and founder of Train 2.0 Jason Yee reverse-engineered these mechanics and named them downhill skating — because when they're executed flawlessly, the player moves so fast it feels like they're skating downhill.

The game is evolving. More players will skate like this every year. You should be one of them — because if you aren't learning these mechanics, you're falling behind the ones who are.

Cutting Edge led the shift. Under Head Instructor and Train 2.0 certified coach Trent Sheldon Cutting Edge recognized this change years ago and was the first to bring this instruction to the Halton Region. Skate Like McDavid has been running for 9 years — taught in a systematic, progressive format that builds the full toolkit:

corkscrew · anchor · soft drag · 10 & 2 · stutter · outside edge roll · shuffle · punch turn · linear crossover · forward stride

Led by: Head Instructor Trent Sheldon & Assistant Ryan Penny Format: systematic and progressive Lineage: 9 years of downhill-skating instruction in the Halton Region

Schedule — Session 2

Players born: 2016-2013

When: Fridays, 6:30-730 PM

Starts: Friday, November 13

Ends: Friday, January 22 (no classes December25, January 1)

Sessions: 9 total

Cost

$380 + HST