Purpose: This loop exercise will help skaters to practice their take-off edge. It will help skaters to feel their weight on the outside edge and over their skating side on the loop take-off. Skaters should maintain pressure on the wall as they bend their knees, keeping their shoulders overtop of their hips. It also helps skaters to think about maintaining a good position with their free arm as some skaters will try to pull their arm around the circle at this point in the jump.
Focus: loop, edge pressure, balance, alignment
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Loop walk through drill on spinner: A...
Purpose: This loop walk through on the spinner will help skaters work on a strong position and snap on the take-off, proper air position and click on the landing. Skaters should try to isolate the head on the take-off allowing the hips, knee, ankle and upper body to start the rotation, following ...
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Loop take-off drill with block: Elite
Purpose: This drill will help skaters to work on their free leg placement and challenge them to feel the take-off leg drive the rotation of the loop jump. Skaters often swing their free leg away from the body and this drill will challenge them to find the stability needed to maintain a strong loo...
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Beginner-Foundation: Off-ice clockwis...
Purpose: This video teaches a clockwise, or lefty off-ice loop jump from a forward inside three turn entrance into all the loop jump phases: entry, take-off, follow-through, air position and landing
Focus: Basic technique, loop entire jump, loop entrance, loop entry, loop take-off, loop follow-t...
