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
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice forward ...
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
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Advanced: Off-ice forward crossrolls ...
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...
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Foundation: Off-ice floor backward cr...
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
