Figure Skating Tip: Where To Skate On The Blade (Frank Carroll)

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Olympic Coach Frank Carroll offers insights about proper blade usage.  As Frank explains, skaters often don’t think much about what part of their blade they should be skating on.  So he offers an easy to remember “speedboat analogy” that will help both skaters and coaches alike.  (This presentation is similar in many ways to the presentation on Edges by Chris Conte.  But if you watch the Chris Conte video, you’ll note that many skaters are too far forward when skating backwards.)  Frank explains the positioning in detail and he notes how this applies to turns and even jump air position.  The forward pressure Frank talks about in the jump air position is a common theme among high level coaches, as pulling back in a jump is inefficient and dangerous.


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3 responses to “Figure Skating Tip: Where To Skate On The Blade (Frank Carroll)”

  1. Grace

    Wow, I never thought of this! it’s exactly what I needed, because I’ve been trying to improve these things, and not really understood this because I’m self taught, I don’t really know these technical things, but it makes so much sense.

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  2. Alice

    what do you mean back center of the blade? does it mean the back of the ball?

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  3. Phillida

    Thank you so much for this video. I have been describing this technique to my students a number of years and I’m so pleased I’m on the same wavelength as one of the top coaches in the US. I now have renewed faith in my coaching.

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