Short Track Speed Skating - Is It Learned?

Short track speed skating is ice speed skating on a olympic sized hockey rink. They skate around these blocks in an oval pattern, instead of traditional long track speed skating,. And you're really racing against the clock. It's obviously much different rit. Your natural, innate, instinctive response is to just grind and have that kind of growth of mine set and you don't really thrive. But i think tha it can be trained, right, just like anything....