Purpose: This exercise helps improve wrist flexibilty and mobilty, which can help with expression and choreography, as well as injury prevention because more mobile wrists are less likely to be sprained on a fall. This is also a good warm-up before skills like handstands or any kind of arm balance skill.
Focus: Injury pevention, expression, mobility, wrist extension
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Foundation: Wall assisted shoulder ab...
Purpose: This stretch helps improve shoulder abduction and shoulder extension. This can be a limiting factor for some skaters for proper arm movements in camel basic spins or camel variations as well as in layback and Biellmann positions
Focus: Shoulder extension, shoulder abduction, deltoid fle...
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Foundation-Advanced: Table top varied...
Purpose: This exercise helps improve wrist flexibility and mobility, which can help with expression and choreography, as well as injury prevention because more mobile wrists are less likely to be sprained on a fall. This is also a good warm-up before skills like handstands or any kind of arm bala...
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Beginner-Foundation: Overhead single ...
Purpose: This drill helps skaters stretch one shoulder at a time by having the free arm gently pull on the arm that is overhead to increase the stretch. This should be done carefully and to the point of any pain.
Focus: Shoulder mobility, injury prevention, warm-up
