Hockey no, but I have skated a few times. It is very difficult at first, but becomes pretty routine after a while. Not on the level of a hockey player obviously, but enough to where I can glide around without having to concentrate on not falling. If a significant portion of my job required me to skate everyday at an elite level, I imagine it would just become routine after a while, just like skateboarding, bike riding, sprinting, etc does first for those athletes.

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Learning to skate to then learn to play and refine your sport isnt the same as:

I believe the amount of practice and refinement that goes into the skills I listed is greater than the skills that go into playing hockey, even after learning to skate. But there's plenty of other things we can add to the above list in terms of things that aren't natural acts that needs to be learned before further refining the skills required to be elite: swimming, water polo, gymnastics, pole vaulting, triple jumping, etc.

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Posted by kilo

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Posted on 6/21/15 at 9:22 pm to Open Your Eyes

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And everyone that plays hockey learns how to skate.

Jesus man. You're brilliant.

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Hockey no, but I have skated a few times. It is very difficult at first, but becomes pretty routine after a while. Not on the level of a hockey player obviously, but enough to where I can glide around without having to concentrate on not falling. If a significant portion of my job required me to skate everyday at an elite level, I imagine it would just become routine after a while, just like skateboarding, bike riding, sprinting, etc does first for those athletes.

You dont have a clue. You really have no idea of the speed and physicality that hockey is played.

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I believe the amount of practice and refinement that goes into the skills I listed is greater than the skills that go into playing hockey, even after learning to skate. But there's plenty of other things we can add to the above list in terms of things that aren't natural acts that needs to be learned before further refining the skills required to be elite: swimming, water polo, gymnastics, pole vaulting, triple jumping, etc.