International coach and jump specialist Nick Perna continues a seminar presentation on building axels. In Part 1 he began by describing and demonstrating aspects of good and bad waltz jumps and he began analyzing some waltz jump examples in the class. In Part 2 he continued analyzing waltz jumps, commenting on a variety of errors and corrections, and in Part 3 he had class do axels for critique. In this video he has the class do axel walkthroughs.
He begins by noting that an axel walkthrough is not a waltz jump loop jump or a waltz jump backspin. It consists of a simulated take-off and step down into a single rotation spin on the axis foot (one turn backspin). For the one turn spin, he wants the class to have ankle-to-ankle contact and this is often called the d-position. He wants this for the axel walkthrough drill even if a skater does not need the feet to be tight for their axel, noting that the ability to get the feet together in the walkthrough ensures a better take-off that does not swing around.
Common errors are not stepping down right under the axis hip, doing too many rotations in the backspin, not having any flow, pulling the left shoulder back to initiate the backspin rotation, coming out of the backspin too late (even though it approximates one full turn), having excessively wide arms prior to the backspin, turning the head into the rotation, and not turning the axis hip inward when stepping down prior to the backspin. Finally Nick has the class do some axels which he comments on.
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