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GRRR! Mohawk-back three - loop jump
Okay, well, i am just about to scream. I have these mohawk-back threes (2 of them) and then a set up into a loop jump in my program. I have had many people try to help me and i do them better on the circle than on the end of the rink where they are in the program. I was told today that a lot of my problem is i am pre-rotating my shoulders. I don't think i am, but i am. So i at least temporarily corrected that.
Any tips? Also, i'd love to see a video with someone doing them (not too fast so i can analyze). Any tips or HELP would ba appreciated. I only have about a month before i perform this mess. Thanks |
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It's hard to see what you're doing without a video, but I think the main trick on these is to hold each edge one at a time and think of each edge as being completely separate from the one before it and the one after it. So think, RFI edge, LBI edge, RBO edge-turn, RFI edge-hold, LBI edge, RBO edge-curl-jump. If I have this move a little wrong, I apologize, but you get the idea.
I know it sounds simplistic, but thinking this way gives me an automatic check and really helps me do my back power 3-mohawks (Intermediate MIF) without spinning off into space!
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Take your time on it and elongate the edges when you practice.
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i do a mohawk-back 3-mohawk-loop and could try to get a video tomorrow night if you think it would help. someone else might beat me to it. i'm betting a lot of the problem is the shoulders, because you have to keep a strong check with your right shoulder back and left arm in front the whole time. when i started learning i would hold the check while turning but then swing my arms around right before trying to jump (doesn't work!). i agree with the previous two posters - take your time on the edges and don't rush. keep your right shoulder back and left arm in front until you spring into the loop.
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Those are part of our Skating Moves test - level 4, I think - so maybe someone has put a video on YouTube? Can't find one, but then, I never can find anything on YouTube!
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Quote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkICSmLT44 Really, as others have said, take your time on each edge, and stretch it out. Cheers, Chow
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Well I was all inspired as this is one of my favorite ways to do loop jumps so I took the camera to skating today. Left the battery at home charging. Duh! I stuck together four clips of me doing back 3, mohawk, loop jump from past competitions and made a youtube video. Hope this helps you! I also like to do an entire circle of RBO3s (I usually use the center circle for this) and then do a loop out of them. RBO3s are my very favorite turn!! My coach always tells me to make the 3 a "big fat 3turn" and then jump. Also, practicing loops out of mohawks helps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adZTcAdSWwQ just looked at the video - sorry the quality is very bad!! I'll try again tonight!
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Thanks for the video, i think i am doing that, but i think my arms are the main problem. Is it mohawk-back three, andTHEN the arms rotate(check)?
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Quote:
clear as mud?
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Except when you are entering the RFI mohawk, the right shoulder should be pulled back the entire time to keep you from over-rotating.
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Very nice video, Chowskates!!
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Thanks, southern...
Re your signature about dress sparkling, the last time I washed my sparkling dress, it got all my laundry sparkling... my DH wasn't as thrilled that his shirts came out sparkly - I wonder why!
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Pardon me for this but....LMAO!!! (I remember your husband well enough to know he's NOT the sparkly shirt type...)
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Very definitely not! I roared at the thought, too.
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LOL! My boyfriend would not appreciate that, either. Silly boys, they just don't understand what sparkles can do for a person!
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accidentally changed the subject - sorry!
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There are some who will submit tamely to having glitter put on their bald patches at the Mountain Cup, and others who do not.... Not that Chow's husband is bald - but then, he's not a skater, either!
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