MYTH #2: “You need to stay low all the time.”

REALITY: You need to adjust your height depending on the situation.

Most players hear “stay low” so often that they treat it like a permanent commandment. They drop into a deep crouch, lock themselves there, and wonder why they feel slow, stiff, or stuck. The truth is, skating isn’t a single height — it’s a living, changing posture. Staying low absolutely helps you generate power, but staying low all the time kills your agility. When you freeze your height, you also freeze your options. Good skaters rise, fall, and shift levels constantly, using those little height changes to load power, release speed, absorb contact, or slip around pressure. Watch any elite player and you’ll see a quiet rhythm in their body: down to drive, up to glide, down to cut, up to escape. That ability to move through levels — not just sit in one — is what keeps them balanced, unpredictable, and dangerous.