How DC Hybrid Skating was founded………

Curtis Brackenbury, an NHL Veteran and Dave Cruikshank a 4 time US Olympic Speedskating Team Member, were working independently of one another until 2004.  Dave took his 16 years of international skating experience and developed a high performance program that had a pure focus on skating and conditioning. Curtis took his 16 years of elite level hockey experience and developed a program that focxused on conditioning and teaching athletes how to compete. Neither Dave nor Curtis had an expertise in the others domain. Dave had success with his athlete’s, but knew that they were missing something to complete their package. Curtis realized that the post lock out era demanded a skating focus. Something his athletes did not posses. So Dave and Curtis identified the key performance elements in each of our programs and combined them to produce a “Hybrid”. We started this business to not only help individuals/teams achieve their competitive performance goals, but to establish a footprint.  A footprint that will redefine the education process for skating and game preparation, around the world.

No where else in the world can a hockey player optimize every part of their game under one roof and get the skating specific training that is necessary to have an edge in today’s fast pace game.  

We:

• Communicate with the client to identify his unique goals.
• Determine the critical elements necessary to achieve these goals.
• Develop a process to impact these critical elements and achieve desired results.
• Use sport specific testing and training to enhance performance and reduce the chance of injury. 

DCHS is successful for the following reasons:

• Our ability to teach and educate our athletes
• Our strong skating background
• Our IST (Integrated Support Team or specialists around the world)
• Our Strong work ethic
• Ability to identify very specific details and the follow through to meet our objectives
• The on-site use of proprietary technology and advanced software that keeps our programs cutting edge and ahead of the curve
• We have over 60 years of training and competitive experience 

The DC Hybrid Skating Brand stands for:

• Building better skaters
• Creating a strong signature as a player
• Ability to maximizing the potential or our clients by having a performance team that will integrate all details that are necessary for high level performance