Joan Orvis introduces one of the most basic school figures pattern. In this video, she focuses on the forward inside and forward outside edges.
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Add to “My Favorites” (Beta testing)Coaches need to get back to the basics if the more advanced skills are to be maintained and progressed further. GREAT job, Joan!
Long live figures! The slow, steady march of time has revealed what I feared when we eliminated figures: we threw the baby out with the bath water. Sure, the bath water needed refreshed because there was too much emphasis on print and not enough on execution. But the baby — body and edge awareness and control — was needlessly discarded and not adequately replaced by Field Moves or Skating Skills (here in Canada). Thanks, Joan, for sharing and making me feel like less of a lone wolf for having a weekly patch session with my skaters! I will continue to hold out hope that our skating associations will honestly assess and admit what was lost with the elimination of figures and work to bring the discipline back in a fresh, updated way!
This video shows a skater that has learned the edges almost perfectly. It would have been better to break this topic of edges into parts and start with a skater from level 3 and teach her how to skate on edges, and at the end we have this awesome video, thank you.
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