Greetings goalies.
A bit about myself first. Kind of deprived as a kid, was never taught to skate. Played ball hockey instead my whole life. I'm 37 now. At 27 my wife took me skating for the first time and I loved it. One hour in I fell and broke my elbow. Never skated again for 5 years. Tried it again and never felt comfortable because I was scared of getting hurt. I tried again but still afraid.
I'm getting tired of playing ball hockey now so I finally got the balls to start skating again and gave myself a goal to play shinny in January of 2024. I'm really loving it. I'm learning by myself skating two times a week for an hour. I'm on player skates right now trying to learn the three priorities. Skating forward, skating backwards, and stopping. I'm picking it up fast and I'm happy with my progress. I've skated 12 times or so now and intend to hit my goal of getting another 30 skates in by the end of the year.
So, when I asked on goalie reddit for advice, they told me to learn things like crossovers and backwards crossovers and what I'm really trying to do is just learn goalie specific stuff so I thought I'd turn here to ask.
My plan was to get a firm grasp of the three things I mentioned, buy goalie skates, and then work on stuff with pads on like t push, shuffle etc.
Does this sound like a good approach for what I'm trying to do?