Hockey stop in Skiing

Reviewer This gives you a practice plan, not just a demo — genuinely well structured.

Moderator Structured, on-skill lesson: rotation of the skis across the mountain, extension/compression, built through J-turn and side-slip progressions straight into the stop. Exactly the skill.

Reviewer Practical drill that targets the real cause, not just the symptom.

Moderator Addresses a specific, common technical fault (inside ski edge angle mismatch causing catching) with a concrete drill (small pivots across the hill) and a sensible progression from gradual to sharp stops. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Live coaching with the actual fixes for the common hockey-stop faults.

Moderator Entire clip is a hockey stop lesson -- explicitly named, explained by origin (hockey players stopping hard against the boards), and then coached live: initiate with the feet, don't split into a wedge, look far ahead not down, angulate onto the outside ski, pole plant. This is the sub-skill start to finish.

Reviewer Clean, step-by-step build with an actual practice target - this is how a ski school teaches it.

Moderator The entire drill breakdown - snowplow stance, adding a bounce and pole plant, matching the skis, then the hip movement that creates grip and a crisp stop - is the hockey stop, built up piece by piece. Fully on topic.

Reviewer Simple, complete, and easy to follow -- does what a beginner needs.

Moderator Despite the description being mostly Instagram boilerplate, the actual transcript is a clean, complete, step-by-step walkthrough of the hockey stop from a mellow run through progression to steeper terrain. Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Small clip, real substance -- exactly the kind of detail that separates good instruction from generic tips.

Moderator Precise, correct technical cue on the hockey stop -- rotating the legs within the hip socket rather than turning the whole body/pelvis -- tied to a clear purpose (balance, transition into next turn). Squarely on-topic.

Reviewer Explains the why, not just the what -- this is real coaching.

Moderator This is the foot-rotation mechanic that a hockey stop is built on, explicitly framed as leading toward it -- not the full stop-with-an-edge-set moment itself, but the specific skill underneath it.

Reviewer Specific, technical cues beyond the basic version -- real coaching depth.

Moderator Squarely and only about the hockey stop, down to a specific variant (inside ski tail lifted, pole placement). Exactly the sub-skill, exactly the detail level I'd want.

Reviewer Short and correct, and calling out the common mistakes is exactly what a learner needs.

Moderator Squarely on topic, explicitly 'on skis' in the title - covers when to use it, the technique (both skis turned across the hill, edges engaged), and calls out the two most common mistakes (leaning back, turning one ski before the other).

Reviewer 'Find the cuff of your boot' -- that's a real coaching cue, not filler advice.

Moderator Live coaching footage of two kids working specifically on hockey stops, with the instructor calling out the edging component by name throughout.

Reviewer Good progression and honest about what conditions you need -- solid teaching.

Moderator This is squarely about the hockey stop -- why it's more powerful than a plow on steep terrain, what surface and speed you need to practice it, and the two things to feel (weight transfer, angulation), building from the snowplow position. Everything in it is in service of this exact skill.

Reviewer Short but accurate - good starting point.

Moderator This is exactly the hockey-stop mechanic - twisting both skis across the direction of travel and tipping them onto their edges for a quick stop - even though the coach never uses the term 'hockey stop.' Content matches the technique precisely.

Reviewer Real cues from someone who's clearly taught this before -- knees to the trees, pole for balance.

Moderator Uses the hockey stop as the core mechanism for controlling speed on steep terrain and linking short turns -- squarely built around the sub-skill.

Reviewer Solid fundamentals and a good safety note, even if the footage itself is rough and repetitive.

Moderator Squarely on topic - proper stance, weight on the downhill ski, edge engagement, explicit comparison to a hockey/figure skater's stop. Content repeats itself across what looks like two clips stitched together, but both cover the actual technique directly.

Reviewer Good bones for a first attempt, just wish it went further.

Moderator Short, but every line is the actual hockey stop progression -- unweight, turn feet together, sink and set edges, then a skid-turn-based practice progression. On topic throughout.

Reviewer Good next-level content once the basic move is already there.

Moderator Uses the hockey-stop position as the basis for drills addressing a specific left/right asymmetry in sideslipping, with resistance-band and on-snow variations. Relevant, though it's refining an existing hockey stop rather than teaching the base movement.

Reviewer Well-structured progression with a real common-mistake callout - solid teaching.

Moderator Squarely a hockey-stop tutorial, just for cross-country skis rather than alpine - still the same skiing category and the same underlying skill (pivot both skis to a stop), built as a genuine progression (wedge to mini-plow to pivot). Slightly narrower context than the alpine-focused videos in this batch, but not a different sport.

Moderator A short drill on linking hockey stops down an even groomed pitch: stop, let the momentum carry you, stop again, with both feet turning under your body together and the skis allowed to drift. Right on the skill, though it assumes you already have a basic hockey stop.

Reviewer Handy balance drill with a good cue (turn both feet together under your body), but it's quick and assumes you can already do the basic stop.

Reviewer Good drill progression, but pretty shallow -- no why, just what.

Moderator Short and entirely focused on the hockey stop -- single-leg inside-edge drill building to the full two-ski stop. No detours.

Reviewer Good opening explanation, then it's mostly watching a lesson happen rather than being taught.

Moderator Opens with an actual explanation of the hockey stop's role (safety/speed control) and how linking them works (stand, shift weight, hockey stop, repeat) before cutting to live coaching -- clearer framing than the companion video.

Reviewer Good idea buried in a pretty rambling delivery -- worth the patience.

Moderator Explicitly framed as the bridge from pizza turns to the hockey stop, built around the edge-weighting concept that makes the stop work. Stays on topic even if it spends most of its time on the pizza-to-parallel transition rather than the stop itself.

Reviewer Correct demo, but there's no meat on it beyond 'watch me do it.'

Moderator Short and to the point, but it's entirely the hockey stop -- brace with poles, parallel stance, rise and turn both feet to stop.

Reviewer Smart drill if you already have the stop — won't teach you the stop from zero.

Moderator Uses the hockey stop by name as a specific repeatable drill to fix round turn shape and speed control — squarely engages the skill, just as a means to a related end rather than teaching the stop itself from scratch.

Reviewer Right idea, correctly explained, just doesn't go very deep.

Moderator Directly teaches the hockey stop mechanic (skis matched, half turn across the hill, progressive pressure to skid to a stop), just framed as a drill toward parallel turns rather than as an end in itself. The instruction given is still squarely hockey-stop technique.

Reviewer Right cue, just repeated at you rather than explained.

Moderator Real-time coaching of two kids learning the hockey stop, built around a nice skating analogy -- if you can hockey-stop on skates, the skill transfers. On topic.

Reviewer You'll actually pick up a usable hockey stop cue here, just not a deep-dive.

Moderator Framed around tree skiing, but there's a real, deliberate hockey-stop practice segment in here -- drilled on groomers, then ungroomed, then in the trees. It earns real marks even though it's not the main topic.

Reviewer Sensible teaching progression, though hockey stop only gets part of the clip.

Moderator Hockey stop is explicitly named as the endpoint of a 3-technique stopping progression (sideslip -> hockey stop), so it's covered but shares the video with at least one other technique. On-topic, not exclusively focused.

Reviewer Authentic coaching, but you're mining it for cues rather than being taught directly.

Moderator Hockey stop comes up repeatedly as the actual command being coached, but a lot of the runtime is general beginner ski fundamentals -- stance, weight forward -- rather than a dedicated hockey stop breakdown.

Reviewer Solid, if brief, explanation of the actual hockey-stop mechanism.

Moderator This actually gets there — tip two is explicitly the hockey stop: turn the skis against your direction of travel and tip them onto their edges to skid to a stop, and the recap literally names it 'that hockey stop or that kind of twist and skid.' It's one of three tips rather than the whole video, but the mechanism described is correct and it's clearly labeled.

Reviewer One good cue buried in an otherwise generic, thin explanation.

Moderator On-topic but thin - builds directly off a prior 'how to turn' video, gives one real technical cue (bend the inner knee, extend the outer knee) plus a vague 'turn faster and more' instruction. Correct subject, minimal substance.

Reviewer Real coaching, but hard to follow as a lesson.

Moderator Real, live ski-lesson footage of a coach correcting students' hockey stops on snow -- genuinely on-topic, just rough, unedited group-lesson audio.

Reviewer One good self-check cue, but far too brief and exam-specific to teach the move from scratch.

Moderator It is describing the hockey stop, but almost entirely through the lens of what a Level 4 instructor exam demo needs to show an examiner, rather than teaching the movement to someone learning it fresh. Real technique is in there (legs turning separately from the upper body, a straight run-in with no preliminary turn) but it's exam-criteria framing, not a lesson.

Reviewer Low confidence call -- the captions are too garbled to really judge the teaching.

Moderator Title says hockey stop, and the fragments I can make out reference 'hockey stap' and a tail-lift-and-set drill, which lines up. But this transcript is badly corrupted -- mixed Dutch/English gibberish -- so I'm going mostly on the title and a few surviving phrases rather than a clean read.