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 feeling of the counterrotation turn.
Focus: Basic technique, alignment, upper body position, weight placement, blade use
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Advanced: Off-ice floor backward insi...
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...
