Purpose: The front split is a key flexibilty pose that skaters should work on to improve their on ice skills such as spirals and split jumps
Focus: Hamstring flexibilty, quad flexibility, square hips, hip mobility
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Foundation: Standing single leg quad ...
Purpose: This pose stretches a skater's quad one leg at a time while also having them work on balance and stability. The standing side arm up helps skaters think about elongating their axis through their standing side.
Focus: Balance, stability, axis, quad stretch.
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Foundation-Advanced: Pyramid pose fo...
Purpose: This stretch is a variation of the forward fold that also has a balance and stability element. The front hamstring is stretched while the back quad is strengthened and the back calf and ankle are stretched.
Focus: Hamstring flexibility, quad strength, ankle mobility, calf stretch, bala...
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Foundation-Advanced: Hips lifted sing...
Purpose: This version of the hamstring stretch keeps the hips elevated and square so that skaters can work maintaining the square position of their hips and shoulders like they will need in the forward splits. This is a good stretch to put in sequence for working on the forward splits and spirals...
