Pointers on teaching roller stops

[ID Rollerpop 4]

I am a little bit over my head but the local rec league was completely short on coaches so I let myself get talked into taking a team. I have never played any roller hockey myself and have never coached hockey at any level but have a decent head for the game and didn't want the division to fold. I feel comfortable with most of it since it is a beginer age group and I know that the keys are just getting most of these kids to skate at all. At the same time I do want to work with them enough that I am more than a glorified team parent. The thing I worry about the most is trying to teach a decent stop as I know that ice coaches around here can get pretty angry at parents for letting kids play roller if the kids come into the season with the tractor turn style stop. I know that mechanics are different between the two but I have seen a lot of upper division roller players who use what looks like a very solid hockey stop. That is the one thing I would really like to be able to pass on to these kids but I do not know where to start in trying to teach that. Any special tricks that can make learning a roller stop more easy or am I just over my head? Thanks for any advice you may have.

[vnderachiever 3]

I have no experience ice skating so we're in two opposite boats, but I would imagine that learning to stop is the same. You really just gotta get them to bury their heads and go for it. Its not something that you can really learn in stages.

The stop that I use, I more or less spin around to skating backwards and dig one skate into the ground perpendicular to the other one (sounds a bit more complicated than it really is). It's basically just taking my left foot and spinning it so It's pointing the opposite way of my momentum, and digging my right skate in at 90degrees to that momentum.

[fatwabbit 93]

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type...l+stop&aq=f