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
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Foundation: Off-ice floor alternating...
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...
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Foundation: Off-ice backward inside t...
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...
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice forward ...
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...
