It's just been crazy to feel the toes, the heels, the whole sole of your foot. "It's like having a driving range for hockey. "Everything I've done before that's 'hockey-related' has been on the ice, so to have something off-ice where you can break down even more, to work on every inch of your blades, has been great," Stephenson said. Already one of the best skaters in the league, Stanley Cup champion Chandler Stephenson has tried them out, along with current Vegas Golden Knights teammate Brayden McNabb, Kole Lind of the Seattle Kraken and Lane Pederson of the San Jose Sharks. Players pop out the regular blades and can replace them with the DriBlades to do lifting and other dryland workouts. "Because of the demands of the game, this should've been around before me, truthfully, because the BOSU balls, the unstable surfaces-other measures we use to really try to facilitate or help the player develop-those weren't close enough."
"It's been on my mind to close the gap to allow guys to train and give strength coaches, skating coaches a little bit more of an accurate tool for this crazy locomotion of skating," Riou told The Associated Press.
His Alien Kinetics company unveiled DriBlades and accompanying weighted slide Monday following development and testing involving a handful of NHL players who work with Riou. He believes he has now found it, with the help of a retired quarterback and a drone engineer, and hopes it revolutionizes the way hockey players at all levels train in the gym.
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