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 not stay on an upright spinning axis.
Focus: Basic technique, axis, alignment, free leg position, free side lifted
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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...
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Advanced: Camel to cross-catch camel ...
Level: Advanced
Base exercise: Camel spin
Variation: Camel spin to cross-catch camel position
Purpose: 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 droppi... -
Foundation: Off-ice floor forward cam...
Purpose: In this combination spin walk-through, skaters enter from a forward camel entry into a forward camel hold. They snap down to the forward sit keeping the alignment over the skating leg. Then they change to a back camel by reaching counterchecked over their back spin leg and snap up to the...
