Hello. I am having a lot of trouble with combination jumps. I feel pretty comfortable with all the single rotation jumps by themselves but when I try to put them back to back in a combination jump, I have trouble and often times on the 2nd jump in the sequence, I don't even get all the way around. One example of a combination I'm having trouble with is a Lutz/Loop. My coach has told me that I need to land the Lutz with my free leg in front so that it's in the proper position for the Loop but I can't seem to do that. My free leg is always out to the side when I land. I've even tried snapping my hip over (like you do when you're transfering your weight in an axel) before I land to try to get the free leg to come over closer to the landing leg but it doesn't work. And if I land the Lutz with my free leg in back and then I take the time to move my free leg in front, I've taken too much time and I lose momentum for the 2nd jump. So I need to be landing with it in front so that I'll be ready to immediately go into the 2nd jump but how do I do this? I've watched others and it doesn't seem like anyone else has this issue, others are able to kind of keep the free foot in front of the landing leg the whole time during the jump. They're not wrapping their legs with singles but their free leg is staying in front of the other leg the whole time whereas mine are sort of side by side during the 1st jump. I think I must be doing something wrong with my technique in the first jump that's making it so hard to land with my free leg in front but I don't know what. When my feet takeoff for the Lutz, for example, my skating leg is in front of the toe pick leg but somehow in the process of the jump, my foot catches up to the other and they become side by side. Since I'm not supposed to cross my legs in a single, I don't know how to keep my legs from being side to side right before I land. I have the same issue with other combo jumps such as the Flip/Loop, the Loop/Loop etc... Any thoughts on how I can fix this? I know it's important for me to fix this now to not only improve the combo jumps but to also hopefully prepare for doubles someday. I would greatly appreciate any feedback that you are able to provide.
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