Purpose: Skaters can practice their off-ice counters changing directions through counter-rotation onto a new lobe while maintaining the same edge.

Focus: Basic technique, turn placement, edge control, upper body position, arm position

Purpose: Skaters can practice their balance, stability, and body position for their turns off-ice.

Focus: Basic technique, turn placement, edge control, upper body position, arm position

Purpose: Skaters can practice their balance, stability, and body position for their turns off-ice.

Focus: Basic technique, turn placement, edge control, upper body position, arm position

Purpose: This drill helps skaters work on the free leg and upper body position while doing a forward outside loop turn.

Focus: Basic technique, free leg position, upper body position.

Purpose: When working on the counter off the ice, skaters should focus on the free leg and upper body position to build muscle memory and consistency for on the ice.

Focus: Basic technique, free leg position, upper body position.

Purpose: On this floor backward inside counter, skaters should focus on the free leg position counterchecking across before and after the turn.

Focus: Basic technique, free leg position, upper body position

Purpose: Practicing this counter off the ice helps skaters learn how to time the foot passing through and the knee action to initiate the turn.

Focus: Basic technique, foot placement, upper body position

Purpose: In this floor counter, skaters should focus on extending their back leg on the outside edge to reach back before counter-rotating to forward, while keeping a strong core to maintain good upper body position.

Focus: Basic technique, free leg position, upper body position.

Purpose: Practice this forward inside bracket on the floor to understand and perfect basic technique. This bracket starts on a forward inside edge and counter-rotates to a backward outside edge on the same circle.
Focus: Basic technique, edge quality, upper body position.

Purpose: Working on turns on the floor, such as this forward outside bracket, can be a good way for skaters to gain understanding of the body position and lean needed to maintain the forward outside edge into the backward inside edge without having too much speed. They also can practice the feeli...

Purpose: Working on turns on the floor, such as this backward outside bracket, can be a good way for skaters to gain understanding of the body position and lean needed to maintain the backward outside edge into the forward inside edge without having too much speed. They also can practice the fee...

Purpose: Skaters can practice their turns, like this bracket, off the ice to get used to body lean and foot placement on both the backward inside edge to the forward outside edge

Focus: Basic technique, blade use, weight placement, upper body position

Purpose: Skaters can practice their forward inside twizzles on the floor to get the feeling of counterchecking their arms and then gathering all their weight over their turning axis. Doing these alternating also helps skaters learn how to quickly change directions--an useful skill for step sequen...

Purpose: Skaters can improve their backward inside three turns by working on them off the ice. They should step down onto an inside edge and keep the free foot lifted. The upper body should rotate outside the circle in the direction they are turning, and when they turn to forwards the free foot s...

Purpose: When working on their forward inside three turn on the floor, skaters should focus on keeping the upper body counterchecked on the forward entrance and keeping good alignment with their free hip lifted on the backward outside edge after the turn.

Focus: Basic technique, upper body posi...

Purpose: When working on backward outside three turns on the floor, skaters should focus rotating outside the circle with their upper body and looking over their shoulder before turning forward. When they turn forward, they should have their arms counterchecked, free side lifted, and weight align...

Purpose: This exercise allows skaters to practice alternating forward outside three turns down the ice. The forward outside three turn is a good skill to improve the entrance to a forward spin, or the entrance to a waltz jump or axel

Focus: Edge quality, free leg extension, weight placement, lob...

Overview:
0:00 Learn how to do the three turn sequence off-ice
0:15 Learn how to do a outside three turn
3:20 Focus on the placement of the arm
3:40 Exercise for the rhythm of the arm and the knees
4:25 Walk through the outside three turn sequence
5:15 walk through with focus on the recheck ...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Forward outside three turn, backward outside three turn
Variation: Big lobes, use the full circle for one three turn
Purpose: Using a full circle for one three turn is a challenge for skaters because they need to have good power on their initial push and good stabil...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Forward inside three turn to back three turn
Variation: Step down after forward three turn to change to a backward inside three turn
Purpose: Stepping down and doing a backward inside three turn after the forward inside three turn makes skaters focus on their foot p...

Level: Beginner
Base exercise: Left forward outside three turn
Variation: From stationary, starting perpendicular to a line.
Purpose: Practicing a three turn from stationary helps skaters learn how to place their turn at the top of the curve. Starting perpendicular from a line helps give skat...