Purpose: This demonstration will help skaters to see how to do a back inside loop. Skaters should try to draw the loop shape with their free leg toe and keep the free in front of them until they are coming out of the loop. They should press into the edge as they go into the loop and release sligh...

Purpose: This demonstration will help skaters to see how to do a forward outside loop. Skaters should keep their free leg back and swing through as they come out of the loop. They should press into the edge as they go into the loop and release slightly as they come out.
Focus: knee bend, rhythm, ...

Purpose: This demonstration will help skaters to see how to do a back inside loop. Skaters should try to draw the loop shape with their free leg toe and keep the free leg close to the skating leg. They should press into the edge as they go into the loop and release slightly as they come out.
Focu...

Purpose: Skaters can practice their counters using the blue line to create nice even counter circles. This exercise will challenge skaters to step with precision and use their upper body to maintain a solid position as they step from backwards to forwards into the next counter.
Focus: counter rot...

Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to practice using their knee bend and pushes to help maintain flow with their counters.
Focus: counter rotation, knee bend, counter, c-step, flow, across the ice, edges

Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to learn how to use their knee bend and pushes to help maintain flow with their counters.
Focus: counter rotation, knee bend, counter, c-step, flow, across the ice, edges

Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can use the short access to maintain a strong check out of their forward inside twizzle.
Focus: Edge quality, power, across the ice, turn placement, changing circles, upper body control, twizzles

Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can use the short access to maintain a strong check out of their forward outside twizzle.
Focus: Edge quality, power, across the ice, turn placement, changing circles, upper body control, twizzles

Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can use the short access to maintain a strong check out of their back inside twizzle.
Focus: Edge quality, power, across the ice, turn placement, changing circles, upper body control, twizzles.

Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can use the short access to maintain a strong check out of their twizzle
Focus: Edge quality, power, across the ice, turn placement, changing circles, upper body control, twizzles

Purpose: This exercise helps the skater get into their knees and ankles during warm-up. It encourages the skater to work to build power and speed on one foot which is necessary for clusters in a step sequence.

Focus: Turn placement, Upper body control, balance, edge quality, across the ice, knee...

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...