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 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: In this drill, skaters work on coordinating their arm position and skating leg knee bend with the reach-back phase of the toe loop before picking and taking off

Focus: Toe-loop entry, toe-loop reach back, toe-loop picking, timing and rhythm, upper body coordination, pick placement, skat...

Overview:
0:07 Let talk about the Double or Triple toe off the ice
0:20 How to avoid a toe axel on the ice and off the ice
1:20 Toe-loop entrances
2:26 Toe-loop entry
4:55 Toe-loop take-off
6:15 Toe-loop follow-through
6:45 Air position
7:10 Common mistake: head and shoulder alignment

Focu...

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Pivot to follow-through walkthrough
Variation: Pivot pull back to push forward
Purpose: This exercise helps isolate the pivot and the follow-through on the toe-loop. By having skaters pivot back and then forwards, they can check the quality of their outside edge ...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Single toe-loop
Variation: From standstill, on an axis
Purpose: This setup is helpful for skaters to understand the flow and direction of a tpe-loop. Starting from standstill also gives skaters more control to hit the jump phases
Focus: Basic technique, jump pathway...

Level: Foundation
Base exercise: Toe-loop walkthrough
Variation: Non-landing leg forward outside three turn into two foot glide before reach back with picking foot
Purpose: A forward outside three turn press back is a common entrance into a toe-loop. Students can practice feeling the alignment fo...

Purpose: This video teaches a clockwise or lefty off-ice toe-loop jump from a forward inside three turn entrance into all the toe-loop jump phases: entry, picking & take-off, follow-through, air position and landing.

Focus: Basic technique, toe-loop entrance, toe-loop entry, toe-loop picking, t...

Purpose: In this video, Signe introduces an off-ice toe-loop jump for figure skaters into distinct steps so that they can really practice good technique and muscle memory throughout the jump. Practicing jumps off-ice is key for skaters to get consistently high quality jumps on the ice because ska...

In this video, Signe breaks down the basic concepts for the toe loop into eight steps.

Pre-requisite: Inside three turn on the circle with the free leg extended on entrance and exit.

Signe explains that she recommends learning a toe loop with the same technique that will be used in a double to...