luckykid
09-26-2009, 06:18 AM
I don't know if this is worth opening a new topic, but I'm having some trouble with my double three turn. I can turn alright, but I kinda scratch the toepick on the second turn and sometimes the first one too. And even if I don't scratch the toepick, I stop moving after I finished the second turn. Any possible ways of correcting it? In my last practice session, I was able to come to a very very slow glide after the second turn. I've noticed some things which I tend to do.
My coach asked me to put in more speed, but then I'll use the toepick because I'm going too fast, so I kinda drag the toepick to slow myself down.
My coach doesn't want me to bend my knees too much when doing any three turns. She said it's wrong. But I read somewhere in the forums that you need a down up down movement for a three turn? For me I enter with slightly bent knees, straightening the slightest bit when turning, since I don't even have much of a bend to begin with, and a deep bending after I completed the three turn.
About posture, I always feel like my upper body is being left behind. I was able to do a slow glide after my double threes in my previous practice, but it's funny. I have to control the edges, and I have to twist my ankle, so that the turning begins with foot, leg, hip, body, head being last. It sounds wrong? Should be upper body turning first?
What is the edge changes in a forward outside double three turn? Do the edge even change? My coach does not want me to get into the inside edge. So I'm either on flats or outside edge. For a three turn, I enter with outside edge, come out in slight inside edge, and I'll adjust it to be on flat.
My coach asked me to put in more speed, but then I'll use the toepick because I'm going too fast, so I kinda drag the toepick to slow myself down.
My coach doesn't want me to bend my knees too much when doing any three turns. She said it's wrong. But I read somewhere in the forums that you need a down up down movement for a three turn? For me I enter with slightly bent knees, straightening the slightest bit when turning, since I don't even have much of a bend to begin with, and a deep bending after I completed the three turn.
About posture, I always feel like my upper body is being left behind. I was able to do a slow glide after my double threes in my previous practice, but it's funny. I have to control the edges, and I have to twist my ankle, so that the turning begins with foot, leg, hip, body, head being last. It sounds wrong? Should be upper body turning first?
What is the edge changes in a forward outside double three turn? Do the edge even change? My coach does not want me to get into the inside edge. So I'm either on flats or outside edge. For a three turn, I enter with outside edge, come out in slight inside edge, and I'll adjust it to be on flat.