Secure Jumps

[flying camel]

How do you achieve secure jumps? Does it come from practice? Does it come from having a great technical coach? is it something that comes from within?

I think of skaters like Sarah Hughes, Tara Lipinski, people were constantly complaining about their technique, but they were secure with those jumps.

Can we shed some light on having secure jumping technique?

How is it possible to have those great jumps like Boitano, Browning, Yamaguchi, Ito just to name a few?

 

[Tonichelle]

well if we use Browning - it's gotta come down to the head/confidence game... because he was anything but secure when it came to the olympics.....

 

[antmanb]

How do you achieve secure jumps? Does it come from practice? Does it come from having a great technical coach? is it something that comes from within?

I think of skaters like Sarah Hughes, Tara Lipinski, people were constantly complaining about their technique, but they were secure with those jumps.

Can we shed some light on having secure jumping technique?

How is it possible to have those great jumps like Boitano, Browning, Yamaguchi, Ito just to name a few?

I'm not sure, it depends what you mean by secure.

I have known skaters who have a very controlled technique in their jumps which i would call "secure". The difference being that a skater with controlled technique can still do the jump wrong but not be phased by it going wrong. The example i'm thinking of here is skaters who are learning to get double or triples. Some skaters have the good technique which they enhance and imrpove their strength in snapping in and spring into the jump to get the extra rotation. They are the ones who can land the jump short or on the wrong edge etc but still stand the jump. The ones who just throw themselves into the air to try to "muscle" the jump are the ones who i would say son't have secure jumps.

Ant

 

[SeaniBu]

The ones who just throw themselves into the air to try to "muscle" the jump are the ones who i would say son't have secure jumps.

You calling me insecure?


JUST KIDDING!

 

[Mafke]

The ones who just throw themselves into the air to try to "muscle" the jump are the ones who i would say son't have secure jumps.

Did someone say Michael Weiss?

He had some great things going for his basic skating but his jump technique made me grind my teeth (esp the 3 axel .... about which, the less said ...)

 

[Ladskater]

Secure jumps? Do you mean consistent jumps? Practice, practice and more practice helps make a skater better at jumping and learning the proper technique for a jump in the first place instills the skater with confidence. Once a skater develops bad habits - even if they land the jump - it takes a long time to "unlearn" bad technique so the jump is done properly. Also some skaters are just better jumpers than others. It's like anything - like learning to ride a bike - eventually one does not even think about the method they just do it.

 

[antmanb]

You calling me insecure?


JUST KIDDING!

And myself!!! I say thay only because i've had a slightl breakthrough on my jumps recently and realised that when you get the technique right the jumps feel effortless (as well they shoudl when you're sturggling with single jumps!). I think i used to "muscle" them!

Ant