STROKING LESSON

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2 ай бұрын

Correct this very common error on cross-overs to help build your figure skating skating skills and boost your component score. One aspect of skating skills is skating on one foot at a time. Reduce two-foot skating to impress the judges!

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@user-ch6ij7qc2f 2 ай бұрын

I am an adult in US who has been learning ice skating for a few months. Although jump, spin and some other moves are harder, up to this point I find my eye/brain lights up when I see advanced skaters do two things: back crossover and a "casual" mohawk turn. I hope to skate like them someday. Here is my attempted understanding of back crossover. Stage 1: at the very beginner level like ISI (ice skating industry) beta, we are taught to lift outside leg over and cross. Stage 2: a more advanced version advocates that leaving the outside foot on ice all the time, probably called "cut back" or under cut. Stage 3: watching Gary here and some other Olympic male and female staters, they actually slightly have their outside blade off the ice during crossing. That blade has a slight angle to the floor with toe a little higher than the heel. Maybe stage 3 is indeed better and more correct than stage 2. Or maybe the stage 2 way is OK in slow speed and shallow curve, while stage 3 is more appropriate in high speed and tighter curve? I don't know. I think I am still practicing in stage 2.

@zeborahnz 2 ай бұрын

I think the "stage 2" version is what is used most often to gain speed especially in preparation for a jump, because it's very powerful since both blades are pulling/pushing at once. But "stage 3" may be more appropriate for a footwork sequence or somewhere else where you're trying to get your programme component scores up. Then there's also the version where instead of stepping across in front of your shin, you step across behind your calf - that's especially used in crossrolls. I can do forward crossrolls, but have only attempted backwards crossrolls with a hand on the wall and was mostly pulling myself along at that! 🤣 What I love about skating is there's always more to learn!

@GaryBeacom-FigureSkater 2 ай бұрын

The kanji for the thumbnail is "kataashi", a word for which there is no direct English equivalent. It means "on one foot", and it is one of the defining aspects of figure skating. Figures were all performed on one foot at a time and on curves with no straight lines. Acceleration is valued by judges as a skating skill, and one-foot skating is also supposed to be a factor in assessing skating skills. Ultimately we want to figure skate on one foot at a time as much as possible. Maximum acceleration can also be achieved on one foot at a time in my experience and opinion. We want to learn in stages, as you suggest here, and as I teach in this video, but these two-foot exercises are just a means to an end.