Purpose: Skaters can practice balancing in their camel position on their spinner to get used to feeling their rocker and maintaining good form, with their free side lifted, and their shoulders and hips square.

Focus: Basic technique, balance, free side lifted, stability

Purpose: This forward camel entry to hold with 1/4 turn helps skaters get used to maintaining good form on the camel position while rotating.

Focus: Basic technique, free side lifted, balance, axis, alignment

Purpose: Skaters can work on their camel spin by snapping into their hold position before checking out after 1/2 turn. This ensures that they have a good axis and alignment and they can practice feeling the balance of a camel. It is a good safety exercise before skaters try to do a spinner camel ...

Purpose: Skaters can work on their camel spin by snapping into their hold position before checking out after 1 turn. This ensures that they have a good axis and alignment and is also a good safety exercise before skaters try to do a spinner camel spin with many revolutions.

Focus: Spinner safety...

Level: Foundation
Exercise: Floor forward camel spin
Purpose: Skaters can practice their spins off the ice even without a spinner. This drill shows skaters how to walk through all the phases of their forward camel spin: a backward crossover wind-up entrance to forward outside edge entry, snap, ...

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Forward camel spin
Variation: None
Purpose: Skaters can practice their balance, axis, and weight in their skate by doing their spins on spinners that are designed to mimic a skate.
Focus: Basic technique, consistency, spin axis
Direction: Counterclockwise
Equipme...

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Forward camel spin
Variation: From standstill
Purpose: Doing a forward camel from standstill on an axis line is helpful for skaters just starting a camel to know when to place their edge hook and snap by returning back to the same axis they started on
Focus: B...