Warm up exercises for intermediate/advanced skaters

[kinari]

Hi guys! I was wondering if anyone could share some of their favorite warm up exercises, or some that you recommend for those working on novice MITF. I especially need help with my loop turn, back twizzles, back rockers/Choctaws, etc. If anyone has any exercises pls share!

Right now my warm up consists of just skating around the rink + front and back crossrolls, and then I go do my counters for like 15 min LOL

 

[Vr12053601]

Hi! By loop turn, do you mean loop jump? If you do, warming up with toe loops would be a good idea. Do a few of these to get comfortable, then move on to loops. Skating around the rink is a good warm up, do about two laps of stroking, then a lap of power pulls or twizzles. Then if you know scratch spin warm up with some of those to find your balance. Hope this is helpful!

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Hi! By loop turn, do you mean loop jump? If you do, warming up with toe loops would be a good idea. Do a few of these to get comfortable, then move on to loops. Skating around the rink is a good warm up, do about two laps of stroking, then a lap of power pulls or twizzles. Then if you know scratch spin warm up with some of those to find your balance. Hope this is helpful!

No. I believe they were talking about a loop movement on the ice, edgework.

For a loop turn, skaters must move forward on one foot, shifting their weight to create a circular shape. The figure looks like the letter “m” with an additional loop at the central point.

 

[Vr12053601]

Oh ok, my coaches don’t focus on edge work much, mostly jumps and spins, so I don’t know about this stuff. :/

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Oh ok, my coaches don’t focus on edge work much, mostly jumps and spins, so I don’t know about this stuff. :/

That's really bizarre and you should probably go looking for a new coach that teaches you the basics in order to properly do programs that contain jumps and spins. Figure skating edge work is the basis of everything skating related. You can't do a proper program with just spins and jumps. You also need to know how to use an proper edge footwork going into jumps and spins to execute them properly. MITF are very vital and important.

 

[Meg LU]

I love some good cross rolls!
I warm up for about twenty min and a lot of the time its on public cause that's what I have available after work so bare with me haha.
- two laps forward going as fast as you can, bend your knees feel it in your thighs
- two laps backwards doing some fun little edge extensions ( I always act like I'm performing) But practice arms!
- power pulls forward and back and if your feeling some adrenaline try doing one foot around the whole rink.
-power stroking with pretty arms
- figures -My mom makes me practice them for edgework.
- wallys
- spirals to shoot the ducks
and last spirals! spec. from the prelim moves in the field.
( But its your warm up so listen to your body and what it likes <3)
hope this gives some ideas!
lots of luck with practice !
-M

 

[kinari]

Sounds good! Thank you guys so much!

 

[Flying Feijoa]

Practicing double/travelling 3-turns in your warmup can help your twizzles. You can do them down the rink. Also try mohawk-to back outside 3s in a circle, with or without a crossover in between (I have heard these called power back-3s by some people).

Doing rockers on one foot down the rink with slaloms between each turn is a fairly common exercise. It's a good general warmup for turns where shoulder-hip counterrotation is important (rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw).

I haven't found any way of practicing loop turns besides just doing them on a small figure-style circle or down the rink Maybe ask your coach for some edge exercises that mix loops and twizzles with other turns to make it more fun?

 

[kinari]

Practicing double/travelling 3-turns in your warmup can help your twizzles. You can do them down the rink. Also try mohawk-to back outside 3s in a circle, with or without a crossover in between (I have heard these called power back-3s by some people).

Doing rockers on one foot down the rink with slaloms between each turn is a fairly common exercise. It's a good general warmup for turns where shoulder-hip counterrotation is important (rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw).

I haven't found any way of practicing loop turns besides just doing them on a small figure-style circle or down the rink Maybe ask your coach for some edge exercises that mix loops and twizzles with other turns to make it more fun?

Ohh I've seen some skaters def do the rocker combination! Do you know of any combinations that are similar but emphasize the counters? I haven't started learning rockers yet and the rockers I do know are very shabby so I don't want to practice wrong technique haha

 

[Flying Feijoa]

Ohh I've seen some skaters def do the rocker combination! Do you know of any combinations that are similar but emphasize the counters? I haven't started learning rockers yet and the rockers I do know are very shabby so I don't want to practice wrong technique haha

If you're fairly new to rockers and counters I definitely recommend practising them figures-style on an S or figure 8 pattern, just to concentrate on getting the edges correct!
You could technically swap out rockers for counters in that slalom exercise. I haven't really seen people do it that way but I've tried it. It felt a bit awkward