cazzie
06-05-2009, 03:41 PM
My daughter is working on axel and some doubles (salchow, toe-loop and loop). Apparantly (according to coaches) gets full rotation but often struggles to get her feet uncrossed (so lands in a spin with legs still crossed) or something similar. (She looks like she gets quite high off the ice).
Has been told if she could just swing her free leg free (maybe not coach terminology but its how I understood it) she'd be landing them and although she is told over and over its "all" she needs to get right she doesn't know what it is she is doing wrong. She is very frustrated and says she needs to build up some image in her mind of how she gets it right.
She's not the most co-ordinated child (heavens knows how she skates and why she somehow manages dance) and I suspect her awareness of hwere her body is in space isn't great. It took her a while to get her legs crossed in the air (thanks to the ankle buzzer) and to get the pulling her arms in at the right time and apparantly this is qute good now. Its the getting the leg uncrossed and behind her now which is defeating her.
Does anybody have any good suggestions? She thinks quite well in pictures so if she has something she could turn (in her mind) into pictures of what she is doing and what she needs to do she thinks it would help.
Also - is this a normal sort of problem to have? Her basic skating is considered very good and its felt jumps are the weakest aspect to her skating and holding her back.
Has been told if she could just swing her free leg free (maybe not coach terminology but its how I understood it) she'd be landing them and although she is told over and over its "all" she needs to get right she doesn't know what it is she is doing wrong. She is very frustrated and says she needs to build up some image in her mind of how she gets it right.
She's not the most co-ordinated child (heavens knows how she skates and why she somehow manages dance) and I suspect her awareness of hwere her body is in space isn't great. It took her a while to get her legs crossed in the air (thanks to the ankle buzzer) and to get the pulling her arms in at the right time and apparantly this is qute good now. Its the getting the leg uncrossed and behind her now which is defeating her.
Does anybody have any good suggestions? She thinks quite well in pictures so if she has something she could turn (in her mind) into pictures of what she is doing and what she needs to do she thinks it would help.
Also - is this a normal sort of problem to have? Her basic skating is considered very good and its felt jumps are the weakest aspect to her skating and holding her back.