Purpose: Wrist mobility is important for figure skaters because choreography often uses our hands to express different things to music
Focus: Mobility, expression, wrist rotation
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Foundation-Advanced: Table top intern...
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. This is also a good warm-up before skills like handstands or any kind of arm balanc...
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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
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Foundation: Wall assisted shoulder ab...
Purpose: This stretch helps improve shoulder abduction and shoulder extension. This can be a limiting factor for some skaters for proper arm movements in camel basic spins or camel variations as well as in layback and Biellmann positions
Focus: Shoulder extension, shoulder abduction, deltoid fle...
