h-Position Clap Drill (Page Lipe)

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In this short video, International coach Page Lipe explains the h-position clap drill.  She uses this drill with skaters on loop, flip, and lutz jumps and she explains it doesn’t work very well on salchow (and toe loop does not have an h-position).  As she explains, the drill helps skaters create more height on these jumps and it also helps them get to a position that allows them to more naturally cross the feet and get into a tight rotational position.

For the drill, Page has skaters clap their hands under their thigh in the h-position.  One of Page’s skaters does a nice demonstration with single loop.


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2 responses to “h-Position Clap Drill (Page Lipe)”

  1. Michelle

    Is the h-position necessary if the jump is clean and fully rotated? In martial arts, our instructor demonstrated jumping with the knees at waist level merely gave the illusion that the jump was higher.

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  2. Trevor

    Michelle, the purpose of the h-position is not to create the illusion of greater jump height. The purpose is to help some skaters to generate more actual jump height and to help them “turn over” the jump to more easily get into the proper air position. Even if a jump is clean and fully rotated, adding more height is almost always desirable because it allows a single to become a double or a double to become a triple. Plus, high jumps are often given higher marks by the judges. The mechanisms through which an h-position helps generate more lift are: the momentum of the free leg lifting into an h gives more upward energy and the openness of the h position reduces rotation rates at the moment of lift off, often helping skaters push off the ice with more force (rather than spinning off the ice).

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