Purpose: This exercise helps the skater get into their knees and ankles during warm-up. It encourages the skater to work to build power and speed on one foot which is necessary for clusters in a step sequence.
Focus: Turn placement, Upper body control, balance, edge quality, across the ice, knee bend, power, warm-up
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Russian stroking warm-up: Foundation-...
Purpose: This pattern allows skaters to work on combining their crossovers with an inside edge hold. The change of edges and the alternating sides makes it a good pattern for skaters to work on their general skating skills and quality of edges, as well as build power and speed.
Focus: Edge quali...
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5 key knee and ankle warm-up exercise...
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.
