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Old 07-19-2006, 06:40 AM
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Are most harness systems suspended from the ceiling? That's what I've always pictured but yesterday I saw a coach working with very small girls (doing axels, I believe, and one working on a double- but I can't tell jumps except axels) using a harness around their upper body attached to a rope that allowed them rotation while he held them on a stick.
That's the kind our coach has - it did adapt for off-ice use, but that part was vandalised some years ago, so now he just has the "Fishing rod!" He does use it for adults - my friend K, who just landed her axel for the first time without it on Sunday, landed several with it before he went on holiday. And I've seen him use it on one of our very promising young men who is trying triple axels - okay, he's only 16 or 17, but he certainly makes the coach move when he's in the harness.... useful teasing material!

They wear a chest harness that looks exactly like what one's children wore in their pushchair....
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Old 07-19-2006, 09:27 AM
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I personally like the harnest.
But I think it is hard doing singles on the harnest because you are in the air to long, and you might over rotate the jump.
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