Purpose: This is a great exercise for skaters to add to their warm-up. It warms up key muscles for jumping, helps to practice spacial awareness and get their core firing. This exercise also helps skaters to practice their axel take-off. Skaters should try to do 5-6 of these in a row down the floor in a straight line keeping their upper body checked.
Focus: upper body check, hip, knee and ankle extension, straight line, across the floor, axel.
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Foundation-Advanced: Axel take-off to...
Purpose: This drill challenges skaters to work on the stability of their axel take-off and follow-through positions before jumping. Skaters should focus on the position of their free leg and arms so that the take-off does not pre-rotate.
Focus: Axel take-off, axel follow-through, free leg posit...
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Advanced-Elite: On-ice double axel de...
Purpose: This video demonstrates an on-ice double axel from backward crossovers
Focus: Entire jump, basic technique
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Foundation-Advanced: Off-ice axel com...
Purpose: This video introduces what some common errors are when skaters are working on axels, and introduces exercises that help fix these common mistakes.
Focus: Axel troubleshooting, swingy axel, axel control, axel take-off, axel follow-through, axel transfer.
