Audrey Weisiger

Audrey Weisiger is a two-time Olympic Team Coach, in 1998 and 2002. She was the PSA and USFSA Coach of the Year in 1999. She has a PSA World Coach Ranking and she’s Master Rated in Figures and Freestyle. She gave the Keynote Address at the PSA World Conference in 2000 and again in 2003. She’s held positions on the Board of Directors of the PSA as well as various US Olympic Committee and USFSA committees.
In 2003, she founded Grassroots to Champions, a teaching company providing seminars for coaches and skaters. The mission of Grassroots to Champions is to raise the technical level of US skaters. The seminars focus on teaching coaches optimal instructional techniques and their skaters how to develop from the first steps onto the ice into championship caliber competitors.
Audrey teaches at the Fairfax Ice Arena in Virginia where she’s coached since 1973. Most of you know her as Michael Weiss’s coach. She’s also worked with Timothy Goebel, Lisa Kwon, Christine Lee, and Parker Pennington. More recently, Audrey founded The MK Young Artists Showcase as a way to develop and broaden the artistic side of figure skating by encouraging and supporting young choreographers.
In 2014, Audrey was the recipient of the F Ritter Shumway Award from the Professional Skaters Association. This award recognizes a person who has been a longtime contributor to the development of skating as voted on by the membership of the PSA.
Be sure to check out the interview Audrey did with iCoachSkating.com founder Trevor Laak.
Most recent videos at the top…
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Figure Skating Jumps: Axel Class – Part 3 (Audrey Weisiger & Nick Perna)
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger continue their on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In the first part of the class, they covered the proper setup and in the second part they covered the step forward. In this part, they discuss the climb up into the axel. Nick covers the details of stepping up into the jump with the […] Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Jumps: Axel Class – Part 2 (Audrey Weisiger & Nick Perna)
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger continue their on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In the first part of the class, Nick Perna covered the proper setup. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Jumps: Axel Class – Part 1 (Audrey Weisiger & Nick Perna)
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger teach an on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In this first part, Nick explains the desired setup for axel. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Goal Setting For Athletes and Coaches (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger shares 10 important reasons why people do not attain a goal. Continue reading →
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Circular Figure Skating Stroking and Step Sequences – Part 5 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger finishes her series of circular stroking exercises that she developed to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control. 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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Circular Figure Skating Stroking and Step Sequences – Part 3 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues with the third stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control. Continue reading →
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Circular Figure Skating Stroking and Step Sequences – Part 2 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger continues with the second stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control. Continue reading →
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Circular Figure Skating Stroking and Step Sequences – Part 1 (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger shares some stroking exercises that she developed 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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Coaching Figure Skating: Team Teaching (Audrey Weisiger)
In this video Audrey Weisiger talks about team teaching. Many top coaches in the world have achieved their success by teaming with other great coaches. Audrey explains how it works and what’s necessary to have it work well. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Quad Jumps (Audrey Weisiger)
In this video Audrey Weisiger talks about quad jumps and what it takes to accomplish this amazing feat. Audrey has worked with two skaters with successful quads, Michael Weiss and Timothy Goebel. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Lutz Jump: Developing the Outside Edge (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger discusses some extremely beneficial exercises for lutz. One of the biggest challenges in coaching is to get our young skaters to stay on an outside edge on the lutz take-off. Continue reading →
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Triple Toe Loop Drills With Ankle Contact (Audrey Weisiger)
In this video Audrey Weisiger works through a series of exercises to help a skater working on triple jumps to feel the proper air position. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Back Spin Tips – Outside Edge (Audrey Weisiger)
In this short video clip Audrey Weisiger shows how to help skaters that are having a hard time getting to a back outside edge when learning a backspin. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Camel Spin Tips For Edge Change (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger describes how to teach change of edge camel spins. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Spins: Edge Change Development (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger describes how to teach change of edge spins. Many coaches asked for information about this and Audrey came through in a big way. Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Drills – Jump Drills (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger describes a series of fundamental drills she uses to develop her skaters’ air positions as well as their take-off and landing skills. To begin the drills she has her skater put on an ankle buzzer to ensure ankle contact during the drills. These drills have become fairly famous. You’ll notice Audrey’s reference to “h-position” and “D-position.” Continue reading →
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Figure Skating Tip – Fixing The Toe Axel (Audrey Weisiger)
Audrey Weisiger discusses the double toe loop issue known as the toe axel. She describes and shows it in detail and then provides 2 important drills that can help a skater eliminate the problem. Continue reading →




























MASTERFUL. I also believe relating the lutz and the axel to young skaters is helpful to their overall understanding of…