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05-14-2008, 11:42 PM
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Coaches: Weird things happening....
Up until the last week since I got back to skating from injury and sickness (later part of 2004/2005 season) I either barely got enough rotation on my salchow and toe loop or it was they way it should be. Now I'm finding that I have to find a way to check harder so that I don't over rotate my salchows and toe loops. What's happening is that I go take off and instead of landing after one rotation, I'm doing one and a quarter. Sometimes it's more like one and a half times around. And I've checked my take off marks on the ice and they are clean. What does this mean?
I use to have trouble with my back spin because I couldn't get on my back edge enough to hold the end. Now I'm finding that my edge is almost sideways on the back edge. What can I do to fix this? I even messed up my forward corkscrew by one time doing the spiralling edge going into the 3 turn and then somehow immediately flipped onto the outside edge. I can't understand how it happened. I had to try again to regain my normal forward corkscrew. Hmmm, I wonder if I can control doing the outside edge first and then switching to the reg. inside edge on my forward corkscrew? I just find this all so weird as I always use to be stuck on my inside edges.
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#2
05-15-2008, 03:02 AM
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1. You're getting better.
or 2. Your skates have a problem - sharpening, warping, etc. Have you had them checked recently?
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#3
05-15-2008, 08:32 AM
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Ask your coach about what proper rotation on the ice looks like.
A toe loop is maybe half a turn when you look at the ice tracings. You might feel that you've got too much rotation but that could be from a non-controlled free leg on the landing. Have your coach video you. It's very useful.
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#4
05-15-2008, 08:50 AM
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05-17-2008, 05:48 AM
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Everything is fixed except for the backspin as I don't know if the backspin is fixed because I didn't try one today.
Coach wants me to try spinning on both edges on forward spin now. How is this done? I can get on the outside edge on a forward spin but I don't know how to get back to the inside edge or vice versa. Tips? We are looking at ways of getting the levels up on the spins that I already can do well (forward upright positions and sit positions).
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"It's not age that determines but the heart." "Skating is not just a sport for the young but it's a passion for the soul of the young at heart." Brigitte Laskowski I am a nomadic adult skater who is a member of Windsor FSC (Skate Windsor) WOS SC again since Sept. 1st, 2008. http://eastcastlemusic.tripod.com Singerskates Sports Music Editing
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05-17-2008, 11:45 AM
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It's pretty difficult to do a change edge spin in a sit position that's low enough to count. Try a pancake or cannonball variation on your sitspin.
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