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Figure Skating Training Tools: Champion Cords Aids Crossovers (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila Thelen explains several ways to use Champion Cords to improve crossovers. Continue reading →
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Learn To Ice Skate For Kids: Basic Jumping – Part 5 (Sheila Thelen)
This is the fifth and final video of Sheila Thelen teaching a young skater in a private lesson. Sheila’s skater is a 6 year old boy named Milan. Continue reading →
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Learn To Ice Skate For Kids: Basic Jumping – Part 4 (Sheila Thelen)
This is the fourth in a series of videos of Sheila Thelen teaching a young skater in a private lesson. Sheila’s skater is a 6 year old boy named Milan. Continue reading →
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Learn To Ice Skate For Kids: Basic Jumping – Part 3 (Sheila Thelen)
This is the third in a series of videos of Sheila Thelen teaching a young skater in a private lesson. Continue reading →
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Learn To Ice Skate For Kids: Basic Jumping – Part 2 (Sheila Thelen)
This is the second in a series of videos of Sheila Thelen teaching a young skater in a private lesson. Continue reading →
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Learn To Ice Skate For Kids: Basic Jumping – Part 1 (Sheila Thelen)
This is the first in a series of videos of Sheila Thelen teaching a young skater in a private lesson. Continue reading →
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Ice Skating For Beginners Tips – Champion Cords Help Cross Feet (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila uses a Champion Cord to help her skaters learn to cross their feet in jumps. Continue reading →
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Ice Skating For Beginners Tips – Crossovers For Young Skaters (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila offers some insights about teaching young skaters. She makes the point that stories can be especially effective. Continue reading →
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Ice Skating Tips For Beginners Video – Fun Basics (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila suggests a fun way to “spice up” a basic lesson with younger skaters. Never underestimate the power of toys! In this video, Sheila addresses skating posture. Continue reading →
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Champion Cords Improve Figure Skating Posture And Landings (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila talks about skating posture and gives some tips to help young skaters understand and improve their posture. Continue reading →
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Champion Cords Improve Figure Skating Spiral Video (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila shows how to use a Champion Cord to improve the stretch of a spiral. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spiral Variations (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila talks about 2 fundamentally different ways to do a spiral and why a coach would want to choose one over the other. Notice that she talks about hip tension to help keep the free leg higher on one method. Continue reading →
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How to Figure Skate: Spiral Stretching Technique (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila discusses one of her favorite ways to help her skaters get more split on their spirals. This is so obvious and logical that many coaches may overlook it. Continue reading →
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Circular Figure Skating Stroking and Step Sequences – Part 4 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues with the fourth stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spin Tips For Beginners – Part 4 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spin Tips For Beginners – Part 3 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spin Tips For Beginners – Part 2 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters. She relies heavily in the beginning on what she calls the “washing machine” to get the skaters used to rotation and to help them get comfortable with their inside edges. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spin Tips For Beginners – Part 1 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger discusses how to start young skaters spinning, from the very beginning. She starts the video by offering three suggestions for determining a skater’s dominant spin direction. Continue reading →
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Ice Skating Moves For Beginners: Forward Outside 3 Turns (Amy Brolsma)
Amy Brolsma explains how she teaches forward outside three turns. Notice that Amy believes her skaters should fully understand the concept of the three turn, including how the turn starts and stops. She uses a hula hoop to help develop proper awareness of all the parts of the turn. Continue reading →
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Learn Figure Skating – 4 Basic Edge Positions (Nick Perna)
In this video, Nick Perna discusses his system of teaching basic edge positions, and how he’s distilled them down to four basic positions. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spiral Stretch Exercise (Sheila Thelen)
Sheila demonstrates a stretching method she learned from Janet Champion to improve spiral positions. An assistant (in this case the coach) helps the skater during this stretch. Continue reading →
