Purpose: Skaters can use this exercise in their warm-up to warm-up hips, knees and ankles. Practice both forwards and backwards down the floor pumping arms back and forward with the knee to simulate the axel take-off on the ice.
Focus: hip, knee, and ankle extension; power, roll up to the toe, coordination, take-off, axel.
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Donkey kicks: Beginner-Elite
Purpose: This drill is a good exercise to add to skaters warm-up as it aims to get them working their hips, knees and ankles working together and get fully extended as they reach the peak of the donkey kick. This drill helps skaters to work on explosive power, timing and coordination.
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Grapevine: Foundation-Elite
Purpose: This drill helps skaters to work on their quick feet and the quick snapping of their hips and core, waking up their obliques. Skaters should try to move their hips with their feet rather than just crossing over to get greatest benefit from this drill.
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Forward bounding: Beginner-Elite
Purpose: Skaters should add bounding to their warm-up as a heart rate boosting drill and to work on the quickness and explosive power. Skaters should try to be quick and light on their feet, trying not to heel strike.
Focus: heart rate boosting, timing, rhythm, power
