This is a normal problem that you are having, and let me assure you that even the pro players we coach have one stronger side stopping and one weaker side. First of all, try to practice your stopping with your full equipment on whenever possible. This way the fear of falling down is lessened and you can practice with a greater bend of the knees and the proper quarter-turn of your body. Secondly, think of the hockey stop as a �hockey slide.� This is because before you come to a stop by digging in your edges, you have be able to instead slide on your edges, barely scraping the top layer off the ice (in other words, make your feet very light on the ice), with your feet in a wide base about shoulder distance apart or more. It is very important that you put your body weight toward the middle to front of your edges and not the heels. If your body weight is too far back on your edges, then you are turning and not sliding. Remember our little saying, �Get your feet wide, and let the slide.�

Robby Glantz