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- Apr 13, 2022
Hi guys !
I’ve been reading you all for quite a long time now.
Today is a great day as I did my first axels, so I decided to celebrate by subscribing to the forum.
I haven’t been trying a lot. The norm here is group classes, not private lessons, and there’s a huge gap between my group that does loop jumps maximum and the next one that does axels and doubles like it’s a normal thing.
Due to this situation, I got used to experimenting a lot of things on my own using tiki tube videos and get proper technique later when I reach the next group or when these elements finally get taught to my group.
I could already do all the single jumps (the lutz landing on two feet though), most of the preparatory exercises for the axel too. My waltz jump was huge, and I feel my salchow is powerful enough to even try a double sal.
So I just went for it.
On the first day, I jumped like a frog, with arms and legs everywhere in the air, and did one turn consistently, landing on two feet.
On the second day, I tried to pull my arms and legs to gain that extra half turn and managed twice, still on two feet.
Today, I was too tired to skate, even more to jump, so I just pretended to do the axel without leaving the ice. At some point, the rotations were so quick it felt like I could almost jump without trying. So I jumped a bit, just enough to leave the ground, and was all surprised to land on one foot with one and a half rotations. I repeated the jump a few times before starting underrotating it.
So yay ! My axel is there !
Next goal : using proper strength to get a real, beautiful, truly jumped axel.
What have you guys been acheiving recently ? What are you working on ?
I’ve been reading you all for quite a long time now.
Today is a great day as I did my first axels, so I decided to celebrate by subscribing to the forum.
I haven’t been trying a lot. The norm here is group classes, not private lessons, and there’s a huge gap between my group that does loop jumps maximum and the next one that does axels and doubles like it’s a normal thing.
Due to this situation, I got used to experimenting a lot of things on my own using tiki tube videos and get proper technique later when I reach the next group or when these elements finally get taught to my group.
I could already do all the single jumps (the lutz landing on two feet though), most of the preparatory exercises for the axel too. My waltz jump was huge, and I feel my salchow is powerful enough to even try a double sal.
So I just went for it.
On the first day, I jumped like a frog, with arms and legs everywhere in the air, and did one turn consistently, landing on two feet.
On the second day, I tried to pull my arms and legs to gain that extra half turn and managed twice, still on two feet.
Today, I was too tired to skate, even more to jump, so I just pretended to do the axel without leaving the ice. At some point, the rotations were so quick it felt like I could almost jump without trying. So I jumped a bit, just enough to leave the ground, and was all surprised to land on one foot with one and a half rotations. I repeated the jump a few times before starting underrotating it.
So yay ! My axel is there !
Next goal : using proper strength to get a real, beautiful, truly jumped axel.
What have you guys been acheiving recently ? What are you working on ?