Purpose: This exercise will help skaters to learn how to use their knee bend and pushes to help maintain flow with their counters.
Focus: counter rotation, knee bend, counter, c-step, flow, across the ice, edges
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Forward Glide and Pushes: Beginner
Purpose: This video demonstrates how skaters can learn to go from a standstill to taking pushes.
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Forward inside to back outside rocker...
Purpose: This exercise helps the skater get into their knees and ankles during warm-up. It encourages the skater to work to build power and speed on one foot which is necessary for clusters in a step sequence.
Focus: Turn placement, Upper body control, balance, edge quality, across the ice, knee...
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Russian stroking warm-up: Foundation-...
Purpose: This pattern allows skaters to work on combining their crossovers with an inside edge hold. The change of edges and the alternating sides makes it a good pattern for skaters to work on their general skating skills and quality of edges, as well as build power and speed.
Focus: Edge quali...
