Purpose: Doing a backward hop landing position challenges skaters to maintain good alignment and position after landing. Skaters should keep their upper body tall and free leg stretched behind, with the arms slightly counterchecked over the landing leg
Focus: Alignment, upper body position, arm position, balance
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Foundation: Off-ice two foot stationa...
Purpose: This drill challenges and improves a skater's ability to do continuous rotation, and also change the conditions within the same drill. Skaters need to be able to know where they are in space to do the 1/2 turns followed by the full turn. It is also challenging to land with control on one...
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Foundation: Off-ice take-off or landi...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters build muscle memory for body positioning in a loop take-off into air position as well as from air position into jump landings
Focus: Axis, alignment, tight air position, take-off hip flexion, landing hip flexion, triple extension -
Foundation: On ice H position to stre...
Level: Foundation Base exercise: Checked H position to stretched landing position Variation: Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on keeping their bodies checked over the landing side while on a backwards outside edge before moving into a stretched landing position. Helps with these common mist...
