Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to use the added resistance to build strength and stability specifically for the muscles needed in the lutz and work on their control as they reach back. This exercise will help skaters to feel more control with their skating leg as they reach back allowing for better edge control as well. This drill will also help skaters to work on the coordination and timing of their upper body and lower body while maintaining stability in their skating leg.
Focus: lutz, walk through, resistance, upper body and lower body coordination, stability
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Backward lutz lunge with walley: Adva...
Purpose: This warm-up drill will help skaters to activate key muscle groups before on or off-ice training. It will also help skaters work on the transfer or weight from their front foot to back foot snapping into a hip twist for their lutz. Skaters can use the walley to help work on counter rotat...
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Advanced-Elite: Banded free leg lutz ...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the stability in their skating leg and strength in their free leg with the lutz reach back.
Focus: Lutz entry, lutz picking, lutz reach-back, lutz take-off, stability, balance, free leg strength
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Advanced-Elite: Lutz reach back to pi...
Purpose: This drill works on the coordination and position of the free leg and the arms in the lutz reach back to picking phase.
Focus: Lutz reach back, lutz picking, arm position, free leg position, timing and rhythm
