Purpose: This drill helps skaters build awareness of their skating/leading side on the axel take-off. The weight helps them maintain pressure on the take-off leg instead of swinging the free side to create the jump
Focus: Skating side, skating side arm position, vertical height, axel take-off, axel follow-through, alignment, swingy axel
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice axel com...
Purpose: This video introduces what some common errors are when skaters are working on axels, and introduces exercises that help fix these common mistakes.
Focus: Axel troubleshooting, swingy axel, axel control, axel take-off, axel follow-through, axel transfer.
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Advanced-Elite: How to increase fast ...
Purpose: This video helps break down three technical aspects for the double axel to help skaters get into rotation more quickly. And then Signe addresses three common errors that happen on the double axel and gives some tips for exercises that can help fix them.
Focus: Axel troubleshooting, qui...
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Advanced-Elite: On-ice double axel de...
Purpose: This video demonstrates an on-ice double axel from backward crossovers
Focus: Entire jump, basic technique
