Purpose: This tutorial will help skaters to learn how to skate. They will learn to go from a standstill to learning how to scull, glide on one foot, practicing balance, and moving into a one foot push.
Focus: weight distribution, balance, posture, foot placement, gliding.

Purpose: This drill will help figure skaters work on their body awareness for their hip placement on their double and triple loop. Skaters should try to do this on a straight line and then test it on the circle as well after mastering the straight line exercise.
Focus: hip placement, double loop,...

Purpose: Skaters can practice this drill to help with the extension of their free leg on their toe loop take-off using chasses to mimic the foot placement prior to the extension. Adding the loop with free leg on the side will help to feel the hip movement without picking. This drill is also great...

Purpose: Skaters can watch and follow along with this tutorial to learn how to do a waltz jump on the ice. This video takes skaters through a series of walk-thrus and drills to build confidence with the waltz jump and can be used as a starting exercise prior to moving on to axel.
Focus: head-to-t...

Purpose: This tutorial will help build skaters' confidence through increased progressions of gliding, pushing to crosscuts. Skaters will learn how to do a two foot slalom, circle thrust, walking cross-over, and finally to a basic crossover on the circle.
Focus: weight distribution, balance, postu...

Purpose: Skaters can practice this drill to help with the extension of their free leg on their toe-loop take-off using chasses to mimic the foot placement prior to the extension. This drill is also great for working on toe-loop combinations. Skaters should keep their upper body checked and should...

Purpose: This demonstration will help skaters to see how to do a back inside loop. Skaters should try to draw the loop shape with their free leg toe and keep the free in front of them until they are coming out of the loop. They should press into the edge as they go into the loop and release sligh...

Purpose: Skaters can use this drill to work on driving in and out of their air position while maintaining a flowing edge. This drill will help skaters to maintain a strong skating side as their arms and free leg move.
Focus: core strength, upper body check, alignment, air position.

Purpose: This demonstration will help skaters to see how to do a forward outside loop. Skaters should keep their free leg back and swing through as they come out of the loop. They should press into the edge as they go into the loop and release slightly as they come out.
Focus: knee bend, rhythm, ...

Purpose: This off-ice exercise will help improve skaters quick twitch muscles when getting into their air position and also trains skaters to have a strong skating side check. Skaters can try doing this exercise across the floor in their warm-up doing 5 on each side.
Focus: upper body check, quic...