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 reach back, flip picking phase, hamstring strength, quad strength, balance training
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Advanced: flip jump entry stability d...
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...
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Advanced-Elite: Off-ice banded flip r...
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
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Foundation: On-ice introductory flip...
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...
