Purpose: This challenging skill helps skaters test their balance and their strength; even if they can do a camel to sit position on the ice, they will be surprised to find it is much more challenging to do it off the ice!
Focus: Strength building, lower body strength, balance, alignment
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Advanced: Off-ice floor forward camel...
Purpose: Walking through the spin positions on the floor, especially for more advanced spins like combination spins, can help skaters identify issues that decrease their spin quality on the ice. One common issue on a camel to sit combination is dropping the free hip when changing so the spin does...
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Advanced: Off-ice floor forward sit s...
Purpose: By working on this spin variation off the ice, skaters can focus on maintaining good alignment over their skating leg as they press up from the sit spin into the Y-Spin. Having good balance and less wobbles will make the spin faster and higher quality on the ice.
Focus: Stability, basic... -
Advanced: Floor camel to cross-catch ...
Purpose: In this balance exercise, skaters can work on keeping their hips aligned and square and not dropping their free side shoulder when grabbing their free leg in the cross-catch camel. Skaters should also practice not dropping the leg to grab it, but keeping it level as the free knee bends i...
