Purpose: This across the floor exercise helps skaters work on both their loop and axel take-offs
Focus: Timing and rhythm, quick twitch, tight air position, spatial awareness, across the floor
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Backspin loop drill: Advanced-Elite
Purpose: This drill will help skaters to work on their air position, getting a tighter squeeze, and lengthening the air position. Skaters should start with a single loop, then as they can do a single, trying double, and then triple.
Focus: over the axis, upper body and lower body quickness, air p... -
Alternating axel and loop take-off fu...
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... -
Backspin ankle clicks across the ice:...
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.
