Purpose: This tutorial introduces how to start to learn forward crossovers on the ice, and a few key technique components skaters need to learn in order to master a forward crossover.

Focus: Basic technique, upper body position, knee bend, shoulder position, free foot placement

Purpose: Swing rolls are a good skill for skaters to have to add flow and extension and presentation to their skating. Skaters need to maintain good pressure on their edge and alignment over their skating leg while the free leg passes through

Focus: Rhythmic knee action, upper body position, edg...

Purpose: Backward outside swing rolls are a great way to add presentation, flow, and extension to your skating. They also are a good skill to work on maintaining edge quality while the free leg is moving from forward to backward and the skating leg is changing from bent to straight.

Focus: Edge ...

Purpose: When working on their forward crossovers on the floor, skaters should focus on hugging their circle and maintaining a lean into the circle on the outside edge during the first push. On the second push they should focus on keeping their keeping their free leg in line with their skating le...

Purpose: Work on your forward crossovers to improve their quality and power. Working on them on the floor helps skaters learn how to use both pushes to gain power.

Focus: Basic technique, quality, power, proper edges, upper body position

Purpose: Work on your basic technique and positioning for your crossovers, also called crosscuts, off the ice

Focus: Basic technique, upper body position, ankle bend, alignment, weight transfer, edge quality

Purpose: Walking through forward crossrolls on the floor can help skaters learn to emphasize stepping down on an outside edge before they try to do it on the ice with speed, which often disguises edge changes and weak edges.

Focus: Edge quality, outside edge, body position, basic technique, free...

Purpose: Skaters can walk through their backward cross strokes on the floor, making sure they are stepping from a back outside edge to a back outside edge on the opposite foot.

Focus: Basic technique, proper edges, upper body position

Purpose: In this mini tutorial, Meghan breaks down how to do crossrolls on the floor and what key points skaters should be focusing on.

Focus: Basic technique, upper body position, ankle bend, foot placement

Purpose: This video helps skaters learn how to practice backward crossrolls off-ice, and teaches them what body positions and cues they should focus on.

Focus: Basic technique, upper body position, ankle bend, posture, head position, arm position, free leg pathway, foot placement, edge quality.

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: On-ice
Variation: From standstill
Purpose: Having skaters start a forward stroking push from standstill makes them focus on pushing down and through the ice and using their blades properly on the initial stroke.
Focus: Basic technique, proper blade use, power
Helps...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Stroking
Variation: Forward stroking into one foot glide, stop, backward stroking into one foot glide
Purpose: This drill tests skaters ability to generate power from a standstill, find their balance after generating forward momentum, come to a full stop and then...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Snowplow pushes
Variation: From standstll, both feet
Purpose: Doing snowplow stop pushes from standstill helps students learn how to use their outside edge to create snow on the ice. It can be less scary than doing it from moving, and it is easier because they do no...