Figure Skating Tips: Jump Class – Part 6 (Michelle Leigh)

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Olympic coach Michelle Leigh finishes her 6-part on-ice jumps class for some young skaters.  (On-ice jumps Part 1, On-ice jumps Part 2, On-ice jumps Part 3, On-ice jumps Part 4, On-ice jumps Part 5)

In this short video, Michelle has the class doing drills for double loop.  Her initial focus is on crossing the feet and then lifting so that the free foot lifts just on the outside of the skating leg.  Notice the continual focus on head stillness!

Michelle also discusses arms and shoulder position and movement and then progresses to the single loop into backspin.  In the backspin, Michelle wants the feet to touch.  This is actually a more precise definition than ankle contact as we want the feet to connect in the air on a multi-rotation jump, not just the ankles!

Thanks Michelle for a great on-ice class!


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2 responses to “Figure Skating Tips: Jump Class – Part 6 (Michelle Leigh)”

  1. lauren

    Would love to see her actually get to the loop at some point in the class like this! 🙂

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  2. Trevor

    lauren – This was the very end of the class as you can tell by the abrupt end to the video. As you can see, most of the skaters in the class really weren’t ready to land double loops yet anyway. If you follow what Michelle’s focus in the class in the earlier videos when attempting double salchow and double toe loop (arms in the air, etc), you’ll get a good feel for how she approaches the double loop in a class setting. With skaters at this skill level, the reminders about position and shoulders and free foot on the loop are critical and you can see that’s where Michelle puts the focus, at the expense of not actually attempting many doubles. Next time I visit Michelle I’ll see if we can get more video like this for loop, flip, and lutz. Thanks.

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