Purpose: This stretch helps warm-up your shoulders and improve mobility, and shoulder mobility is necessary for all elements of skating.
Focus: Shoulder mobility, injury prevention, warm-up
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Beginner-Foundation: Arm and wrist fl...
Purpose: This exercise warms up movement through the wrists, elbows, and shoulders, so skaters can be more mobile for skills as well as artistry and expression
Focus: wrist mobility, elbow mobility, arm mobility, shouldermobility, expression
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Beginner-Foundation: Wrist flexion st...
Purpose: This wrist flexion stretch is helpful for creating more mobility through the wrists, which can help with more fluid artistry. Stretching the wrists is also helpful for skills like handstands, which can be tough on the wrists if they are not properly warmed up. More mobile wrists are als...
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Beginner: Prayer hands wrist stretch
Purpose: This exercise helps improve wrist flexibilty and mobilty, which can help with expression and choreography, as well as injury prevention because more mobile wrists are less likely to be sprained on a fall
Focus: Injury pevention, expression, mobility, wrist extension
