Coach and choreographer Kate Charbonneau continues a presentation on the USFS Preliminary Skating Skills (Moves in the Field) Test. In Part 1 she discussed the Forward and Backward Crossovers and in Part 2 she covered the Consecutive Outside and Inside Spirals. In this video she teaches the Forward Power Three Turns.
Kate begins by describing and demonstrating the power three turn in detail. It consists of a forward outside three turn followed by a shift/step to an inside edge on the other foot with an undercut before stepping again onto an outside edge to repeat the sequence. She then has her skaters demonstrate repeating power three turns. Although she counts to eight while her skaters are performing the pattern, she does not explain how the counts correspond to the steps or pushes.
She explains that even advanced skaters often do power three turns as a way to generate speed quickly. She notes, “For the test, skater will do the left foot (power three turn) coming down one long axis line using the red dots” and the skater will do the right foot coming back up the ice.
Next Kate demonstrates precise power three turns on the blue line to show exactly how to skate it. Notice the three turn is at the top of the lobe, and the weight shift and step to the back inside edge happens on the axis of the pattern. The cross under portion of the back crossover begins roughly at the top of the lobe. Kate explains that a skater should be able to do a decent forward outside three turn from the previous test, and she prefers collected feet (“free leg completely in”) on both the entry and exit of the turn. The feet stay close until the actual shift/step to the back inside edge of the back crossover.
Common errors are poor three turn execution where the skater simply flops the free skate down right after the three turn, or they step onto a back outside edge and change edge to the inside. To address these she keeps the free foot close on the turn and then uses an exercise she calls “the shuffle.” The shuffle is a weight shift exercise where the skater shifts their weight from one inside edge to the other and changes the lobe at the same time, all on two feet. To make this exercise more fun she adds interesting arms. Fixing the step to an outside edge is mostly just demanding that the skater does it properly.
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