I was so excited to finally achieve my double 3's yesterday! I am also working on brackets (ugh). I am wondering, though, how do i keep my speed and power throughout? I seem to fizzle after the 2nd three, and also after the "bracket" part of the bracket. I'll never pass on power if i don't get some help. I am mostly working without a coach on these right now and spending most of my money workihng on Adult Silver freestyle, so any tips will be appreciated.

I didn't think it got posted the first time, sorry about the "double three" double question!

I saw and deleted the duplicate. No problem - duplicate happens to all of us!

There's a rythm to each of these maneuvers - your turn has to be in synch with your knee bend, upper body rotation and actual edge/direction changes. Lots of practice, preferably to music, really helps solidy these and keep the momentum.

For the bracket, the knee bend will help continue the speed, as will doing a clean turn. The less scraping, the less loss of momentum.

__________________

hi there,
i'm in the early stages of learning bracketts and choctaws.. [ love the quick, dance like pace.. ],, but WHAT is a double-3? i've 'heard' of it, but have never been shown.

__________________
JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE ELSE GETS TO YOU FIRST..

DOES 'THAT' MAKE THEM 'RIGHT'?

Double threes and brackets are generally the same problem if you don't flow out - not enough knee bend and check. You have to check hard at the end of both the double threes and the brackets. When you are up in your knee on the exit, you scratch and have no flow.

When you exit the bracket turn, bend really deeply and use your ankle a lot.

I have not really worked on brackets.. but a friend of mine said getting the rhythm of them really helped her maintain the flow. She said her coach said to find a phrase that worked for her to maintain that rhythm. The coach said she would not help her find one.. but said she found that "slow in-turn-and-out" worked for three turns. My friend said she inadvertently found her bracket rhythm when she was thinking about doing them and was a little fearful... and started saying "oh! my! god! oh! my! god!" -- She said that turned into her bracket mantra... and even helped her relax a little on her tests. One judge even told her afterwards, she was the first skater the judge had ever seen smile during brackets... but she didn't tell her judge her secret.

We used to have code phrases for patch too. I used the Alka Seltzer (old) commercial for back outside and inside 8's for the movement of arms, head, and free foot.

Which "old Alka-Seltzer commercial"? I remember them all the way back to "I can't believe I ate the whole thing"... which really shows I've been around "a while".

No, the tune - Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is

Oh cool!!! I'm going to remember that.. we work on those from time to time and that will certainly help. Thanks for the "inside" information.