Purpose: This video introduces 5 key stroking exercises skaters should practice to warm-up their ankles and knees prior to getting into other skating elements.
Focus: upper body control, across the ice, flow, glide, balance, power
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Advanced: Off-ice forward outside swi...
Purpose: An s-step can be done from a swing roll, which can help increase the depth of edge and maintain glide and flow and overall presentation during these steps.
Focus: Flow, glide, ease of movement, edge increase.
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Foundation: On-ice forward inside edg...
Purpose: This video is a good sequence of steps and edges to help skaters practice their skating skills.
Focus: Edge quality, flow, edge combinations, circle patterns.
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Foundation: Off-ice bend to straighte...
Purpose: This exercise has a skater step into an inside edge with a bent leg then straighten to finish the rest of the lobe before stepping into the next inside edge down the axis. This is a great drill for skaters to practice edge control under different conditions, and changing from one conditi...