Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on a quick snap into their air position on a loop take-off, vertical height on the take-off, rotation, and control of landings so that they can do it continuously.
Focus: Loop take-off, Vertical height, tight air position, upper body control, jump combinations
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Foundation: Off-ice take-off or landi...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters build muscle memory for body positioning in a loop take-off into air position as well as from air position into jump landings
Focus: Axis, alignment, tight air position, take-off hip flexion, landing hip flexion, triple extension -
Foundation: On-ice loop jump entry ed...
Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Loop entry hold
Variation: From a forward inside three turn, entry outside edge gets progressively tighter
Purpose: This drill helps skaters work their body alignment and control during the increase of outside edge pressure in a loop entry into a loop take-off. By... -
Advanced: On ice loop jump take-off t...
Level: Advanced
Base exercise: Loop jump take-off to follow through walkthrough
Variation: Snap into an outside twizzle after the follow through to imitate air position.
Purpose: This drill helps skaters practice the outside edge take-off and feeling their axis on the follow through so that th...
