Purpose: Skaters should practice this drill to help with their free leg control and upper body control. As skaters lift their free leg on their salchow and bring it through for the take-off, the spinner will force skaters to keep free leg low and narrow. Maintaining their hands over their hips also will help to keep their skating side back.
Focus: free leg control, upper body control, salchow, balance, coordination
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Foundation-Advanced: Salchow single l...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on their stability and alignment over their skating side during the salchow entry until the take-off.
Focus: Salchow entry, salchow take-off, alignment, skating side, stability, upper body position, free side lifted
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Foundation: On ice forward outside th...
Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Forward outside three turn salchow entrance walkthrough
Variation: None
Purpose: By isolating just the entrance into the entry on a salchow jump, skaters can improve their overall jump by having more control on the setup. Isolation also helps skaters and coaches ... -
Foundation-Advanced: On-ice salchow e...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters who are using the one foot take-off into a salchow to learn how to keep their upper body position from rotating before the take-off of the jump.
Focus: One foot take-off, shoulder position, head position, arm position, entry check
