Basic Skating Position is Key to Being Balanced and Fast
- discovershorttrack
- Nov 12, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 18, 2022
Learning the basic skating position is key to being balanced and fast!
Three simple skating positions.....
From the Mohawks Ice Racing Club in the U. K we practice three basic skating positions, and as former Olympian and Head Coach Tom Iveson says, that these basic skating are most important to make you a balanced and fast skater.
The three are: -
1 - Knees Forward - Knee angle just below 90 degrees
2 - Body down - Shoulders are above hip height (aka don’t be a flamingo putting head low but sticking hips in air as your power is going up in the air too, not down into ice).
3 - Back Rounded - If a skaters back is flat or arched, knees are often not over toes and less glide, less power is likely.
....ensure these basic skating positions are always upper most in your mind when training on ice or appropriate dry land training.
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