Axel Jump Tips: How To Fix A Swingy Axel – Part 3 (Nick Perna)

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Nick Perna finishes his lesson with Annalise to improve her axel, particularly the jump’s distance.  Part 1 focused on control of the step position and the hip and leg movement, all on a straight line, and Part 2 focused on modified two-foot-landing waltz jumps and straight line forward take-offs into a forward landing.

In this this final part of the lesson, Nick continues building the jump by adding a hop to backward.  The purpose is to keep the jump taking off as straight as possible.  Again, see good and bad examples of how the drills should be done.

Finally, Annalise attempts some axels from a standstill.  Before even allowing a single attempt, Nick emphasizes to Annalise the importance of the correction (straighten out the jump) at the expense of landing the jump.

I hope you enjoyed this series as it covers an important topic.


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6 responses to “Axel Jump Tips: How To Fix A Swingy Axel – Part 3 (Nick Perna)”

  1. Nancy

    Thanks Nick! Your technique has already helped one of my students with her axel! I am so excited to have this great info from your series. You rock!!

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  2. Laura

    Love this lesson! I’m an adult skater (45) comfortable with all singles but lutz (not good) and was wondering…should I have lutz really strong before going on to axel? Or is it ok to start working on it now? Love these lessons and the idea of building good technique right out of the gate with axel. Thanks! Laura.

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  3. Jessica

    HI Nick! i just have one question, i have a skater who always land the axel with his feet crossed and supports 2, whenever I ask him to check out but she use to do like this, can you have any advice or exercise for that. thanks

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  4. Nick

    Jessica, I’m responding to your question about how to help a skater who lands the Axel on two feet with their legs crossed. I would have the skater try to do a loop jump from an inside 3 turn…with very little speed, and have them keep their feet crossed the entire time…from the 3 turn, the take-off, during the rotation, and then on the landing impact they should only land on one foot! This has helped others with this problem. Thank you.

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  5. Jessica

    Excellent explanation thanks, I´ll try today.

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  6. Natxeli

    Thank you, Mr. Perna!

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