Spin specialist Bobbe Shire discusses the camel spin. She explains why a camel is unique and different than any other spin.
Bobbe Shire talks about using the forward inside three turn entry for forward spins. She is not fond of the entrance and she explains why.
Bobbe Shire gives a thorough explanation of the sit spin. She discusses how it differs from the upright scratch spin. She also talks about the importance of "locking the back down."
Bobbe Shire talks about one of the most misunderstood aspects of spinning, which is setup speed. Bobbe talks about how high setup speeds are difficult to control and generally do not add to the speed of the spin, especially for lower level skaters.
Bobbe Shire discusses back alignment and body position and tension for spinning. This video is a continuation of Bobbe's 5 Steps of Spinning.
This presentation by Chris Conte on the IJS rules is the first of a 6 part series.
This video is a continuation of a previous Chris Conte double salchow analysis.
This clip stands on it's own aside from a few references to that previous video.
Chris Conte gives a pole harness lesson on double axel. This video is a continuation of Chris's "Cat and Mouse" method video here at iCoachSkating.com.
Chris Conte gives a double axel lesson in the stationary harness. There are so many gems of wisdom in this video!
Chris Conte describes his "Cat and Mouse" method of teaching a skater to snap into the rotational position.
Chris Conte discusses "3 turn magic" which is a system for developing walk-throughs of all the jumps.
Chris Conte demonstrates and describes a full development program for teaching a skater to do a double loop.
Sheila Thelen offers a clever if not slightly diabolical concept to help skaters clearly remember their proper alignment side for jump air positions (as well as most take-offs and landings).
Sheila Thelen explains several ways to use Champion Cords to improve crossovers.
Sheila Thelen offers one of the best and simplest tricks ever for preventing pre-rotation of the head on jumps. Head pre-rotation is one of the most common major errors in jumping.
Sheila Thelen shares a coaching secret for keeping her feet warm.
Tom explains a drill that consists of a series of half jumps and builds to a long sequence of jumps and rotations to develop skater control and jump flow and rhythm. Tom provides tips and recommendations to help the demonstrating skater improve the drill.
Tom explains and describes some very helpful jump drills that help his skaters develop control and proper alignment as well as familiar feelings for weight transfers and air positions.
Tom Hickey describes and explains an "Organizational Drill with Multi-Jump Setups." This drill provides for effective and efficient use of on-ice sessions.
Sheila Thelen offers an simple way for coaches to earn a little extra income. She suggests teaching an off-ice jump rope class.
Sheila talks about doing multiple double loop drills. These kinds of drills have become more and more popular for skaters to learn flow in combinations. Sheila talks about the need for quickness and one of her skaters demonstrates doing 5 double loops in a row.
Sheila offers a tip for using a Champion Cord with the axel. This tip is particularly helpful for skaters that don't naturally kick their knee through at take-off.
Sheila discusses an axel drill for young skaters. She also shares some tips that make the drill more effective (using a Champion Cord and a toy).
Sheila talks about skating posture and gives some tips to help young skaters understand and improve their posture.
Sheila shows how to use a Champion Cord to improve the stretch of a spiral.
Sheila talks about 2 fundamentally different ways to do a spiral and why a coach would want to choose one over the other. Notice that she talks about hip tension to help keep the free leg higher on one method.
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger continue their on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In the first part of the class, they covered the proper setup and in the second part they… Continue reading
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger continue their on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In the first part of the class, Nick Perna covered the proper setup.
Nick Perna and Audrey Weisiger teach an on-ice axel class at the 2010 G2C Extreme Supercamp. In this first part, Nick explains the desired setup for axel.
Nick Perna continues his axel lesson with Kayla.
Nick Perna continues his axel lesson with Kayla. This is part 4 of this half-hour lesson. In the first part Nick focused on Kayla's backspin.
Nick Perna continues his axel lesson with Kayla. This is part 3 of this half-hour lesson. In the first part Nick focused on Kayla's backspin.
Nick Perna continues his axel lesson with Kayla.
Nick Perna gives an axel lesson to Kayla. Kayla is a low level skater currently learning an axel. This video is the first in a series of videos covering the entire half-hour lesson.
This is the final installment of Nick Perna's off-ice jump class.
Nick Perna teaches an off-ice jump class. This is the first part of a multi-part video series. Most top skaters implement an off-ice jumping routine in their training.
Olympic coach Michelle Leigh offers some jump drills and exercises to improve control and efficiency, particularly related to building double jumps into triple jumps.
Olympic coach Michelle Leigh provides a thorough explanation of how she teaches the loop jump.
Olympic coach Michelle Leigh finisher her discussion of the axel.
Olympic coach Michelle Leigh explains a valuable warm-up drill that incorporates the helicopter exercise and walleys.
Olympic coach Michelle Leigh discusses the back preparation edge for axel. This video is a continuation of Michelle's discussions of the axel.
This video is a continuation of the axel lesson video with Olympic coach Michelle Leigh. In this video, Michelle is working towards double axel with her skater.
In this video, we sit in on an axel lesson with Olympic coach Michelle Leigh. This is a great follow-up the Michelle Leigh axel video.
Michelle Leigh discusses how she develops the axel from the waltz jump.
Michelle Leigh works with a skater on drills intended to fix head issues.
Michelle Leigh explains one of her favorite drills for her skaters.
Michelle Leigh discusses some very helpful information regarding arm motions and positions throughout jumps, and particularly loop, flip and lutz.
Audrey Weisiger shares 10 important reasons why people do not attain a goal.
Audrey Weisiger finishes her series of circular stroking exercises that she developed to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control.
Audrey Weisiger continues with the fourth stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control.
Audrey Weisiger continues with the third stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control.
Audrey Weisiger continues with the second stroking exercise intended to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control.
Audrey Weisiger shares some stroking exercises that she developed to help her skaters with their posture, alignment and control.
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters.
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters.
Audrey Weisiger continues her discussion of how to introduce spins to young skaters. She relies heavily in the beginning on what she calls the "washing machine" to get the skaters used to rotation and to help them get comfortable with their inside edges.
Audrey Weisiger discusses how to start young skaters spinning, from the very beginning. She starts the video by offering three suggestions for determining a skater's dominant spin direction.
In this video Audrey Weisiger talks about team teaching. Many top coaches in the world have achieved their success by teaming with other great coaches. Audrey explains how it works and what's necessary to have it work well.
In this video Audrey Weisiger talks about quad jumps and what it takes to accomplish this amazing feat. Audrey has worked with two skaters with successful quads, Michael Weiss and Timothy Goebel.
Audrey Weisiger discusses some extremely beneficial exercises for lutz. One of the biggest challenges in coaching is to get our young skaters to stay on an outside edge on the lutz take-off.
In this short video clip Audrey Weisiger shows how to help skaters that are having a hard time getting to a back outside edge when learning a backspin.
Audrey Weisiger describes how to teach a flying camel. She discusses the most common problems and some of her countless drills and solutions.
Audrey Weisiger describes how to teach change of edge camel spins.
Audrey Weisiger describes how to teach change of edge spins. Many coaches asked for information about this and Audrey came through in a big way.
Nick Perna finishes his lesson with Isabelle.
Nick Perna continues his lesson with Isabelle.
Nick Perna continues his lesson with Isabelle.
Nick Perna continues his lesson with Isabelle.
Sheila Thelen coaches in Minneapolis, Minnesota. See her video analysis setup.
Nick Perna gives a lesson to Isabelle.
Matthew Blair Davis describes the first step in the 3-step process he uses to improve a skater's vertical jump. After an evaluation, Matthew always focuses on the skater's squat. In this video he explains what makes a perfect squat.
Tricia Offerdahl discusses what she takes into account when choreographing a lower level program. After her initial discussion, you get to sit in as she begins setting a program for Leah.
Joan Orvis discusses forward inside and outside edges. Joan makes a great point at the beginning of this video that good jumping cannot happen in skating without good edges.
Page Lipe discusses checking out of jumps. This is a great video for anyone with skaters having problems dropping their free hip or losing control of their shoulders on landing.
In this video, Nick Perna discusses his system of teaching basic edge positions, and how he's distilled them down to four basic positions.
Nick Perna continues his explanation of slaloms and shares a drill to help skaters develop the proper weight transfer, balance, and power.
In this video of a lower level spin class, Nick Perna discusses the “sweet spot” or the “slippery spot” for spinning.
Sheila Thelen and Nick Perna lead a spin class for less advanced skaters.
Charyl Brusch introduces herself and offers some basic insights about spinning.
Nick Perna and Sheila Thelen conduct a spin class for advanced skaters. This is a long video and it's filled with many tidbits of helpful information.
Nick Perna follows up his forward slalom drills to generate edge power with the backward versions of these drills.
Nick Perna shares some important drills to help skaters develop power from their forward edges.
Nick Perna shows how he introduces a skater to the lutz jump. This is a follow-up video to Nick's presentation of the loop jump and the flip jump.
Bobbe Shire explains and demonstrates her basic philosophy of spinning. In this video she shares her 5 Step Approach to Spinning. As Bobbe says, each step has a name and the important things to remember about it.
Grace Lee continues to share the warm-up routine that she created for her skaters. You can view thefirst warm-up video here.
Nick Perna discusses take-off direction. He explains that all jumps take off with the skater turning to forward before leaving the ice.
Grace Lee introduces herself and allows us to watch her skaters do their daily off-ice warm-up. This video is just the first portion of the first part of the overall warm-up. The warm-up consists of 3 parts which take between 50 and 60 minutes to complete.
Nick Perna continues his discussion of the lutz jump. In this video he discusses entry options and what to look for when using one of the various setups
Sheila demonstrates a stretching method she learned from Janet Champion to improve spiral positions. An assistant (in this case the coach) helps the skater during this stretch.
Sheila demonstrates how to use a harness for double axel. She also gives a few tips regarding the double axel and she talks briefly about the skid/no-skid on take-off issue.
Nick Perna continues his development of the lutz jump and talks at length about how to correct a flutz problem. You've got to see this video to understand Nick's views on the "reach back" that gets so much attention.
Nick Perna explains how he teaches a lutz jump to avoid the dreaded flutz problem. As you'll see in the video, Nick is very passionate about the lutz coming off a back outside edge.
Michelle Leigh discusses some general jump principles she uses with her skaters. This discussion continues her thoughts on head placement and movement. She then moves to a more thorough discussion of shoulder and hip movements, take-off direction, and air position.
Sheila Thelen discusses more ceiling harness safety issues. Then she demonstrates common jump setups for use with a ceiling harness.