Purpose: This drill helps skaters learn how to position and create power from their skating side arm on the flip take-off and follow-through

Focus: Flip take-off, flip follow-through, arm position, timing, generating power

Purpose: This drill helps skaters maintain a good check with their skating side shoulder on the flip entry into a take-off to avoid swingyness caused by the upper body moving ahead of the lower body on the take-off

Focus: Flip entry, upper body position, shoulder position, free side check, timin...

Purpose: This drill works on the hip position of the free leg after the three turn on a flip entry so that skaters can move more quickly into rotation after picking.

Focus: Flip entry, flip picking, free leg extension, free side hip position, square hips

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability of their skating leg on the picking and take-off phase of the flip jump.

Focus: Flip picking, flip free foot, hip hinge, free foot placement, free hip lifted

Purpose: This challenging exercise can help skaters work on their balance and strength in their standing leg, the leg strength for the reach back in the free leg, and overall core strength and stability to maintain the position.

Focus: Balance, stability, injury prevention, ankle strength, flip...

If you struggle with edge quality on your flip jump, or picking close enough to your skating leg to have good axis alignment on your flip jump, use this drill to help practice.

Place your picking (landing) foot softly on the top of a yoga ball, and use your hip hinge in your skating leg to gent...

Purpose: This exercise helps skaters work on the force needed to reach back during the flilp entry to the picking phase. The band also helps skaters feel where their free foot is reaching in relation to their standing leg

Focus: Flip reach back, free leg, force generation

In this video, Signe introduces a flip jump to skaters who are just starting to learn it. She shows how to work on the jump from a standstill, so that skaters can really work on the mechanics of the entry, the the picking, the take-off, and the follow through. After working on these skills and bu...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Flip jump
Variation: Viewed in slow motion
Purpose: Watching jumps in slow motion can be really helpful for skaters to understand and visualize all the phases of the jump
Focus: Understanding jump phases, flip vs lutz,
Direction: Counterclockwise
Equipment: No Equi...

Purpose: Slowly walking through the phases of the flip jump--the entrance and entry, the picking and take-off phase, and the follow-through phase--helps a skater build muscle memory for each of the phases and also troubleshoot where they may be experiencing issues with their jump on the ice.

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Purpose: This video teaches a clockwise or lefty off-ice flip jump from a forward outside three turn entrance into all the flip jump phases: entry, picking & take-off, follow-through, air position and landing

Focus: Basic technique, flip entrance, flip entry, flip picking & take-off, flip follow...

Purpose: In this video, Signe introduces an off-ice flip jump for figure skaters into distinct steps so that they can really practice good technique and muscle memory throughout the jump. Practicing jumps off-ice is key for skaters to get consistently high quality jumps on the ice because skaters...