TRAINING TWO LEGS SEPARATELY TOGETHER

As mentioned earlier, I have to train my two legs differently from one another.

My left leg is as you’d expect, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bone. Learning to skate, I’ve always worked my power pushes, stability, and balance from my left leg.

This summer, since coming back to hockey, I’ve been focusing heavily on shifting weight and mobility responsibilities to my right leg…my prosthetic side.

Its been a challenge to mentally transpose movements from my biological left leg to the mechanical right leg which lacks the musculature, joint construction, and range of motion my left leg has.

So much of goaltending relies on moving one’s legs independent of each other…T-pushes, mohawk turns, C-cuts, cross over power pushes….all those movements rely upon the human anatomy’s ability to move, stabilize, and generate force.

With my prosthesis, I lack those independent controls. The greatest componentry and alignment can’t replicate the human biological anatomy’s autonomy.

I’m getting creative in inventing a mobility and puck stopping system that fits my needs/physical set up.