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 balance skill.
Focus: Injury pevention, expression, mobility, wrist extension
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Beginner-Foundation: Overhead single ...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters stretch one shoulder at a time by having the free arm gently pull on the arm that is overhead to increase the stretch. This should be done carefully and to the point of any pain.
Focus: Shoulder mobility, injury prevention, warm-up
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Beginner-Foundation: Cross body shoul...
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-Advanced: Wrist mobility war...
Purpose: This video takes skaters through a sequence of wrist exercises to warm up mobility and range of motion. Wrist mobility is important because it can help prevent injuries when falling, and hands are used in choreography to help express the music.
Focus: Wrist mobility, warm-up, artistry,...
