Jackie Brenner
Jackie Brenner is a National coach who teaches in Oklahoma City, OK where she is the Director of Figure Skating Operations at Arctic Edge Ice Arena and nearby Blazers Ice Centre. She’s been coaching skaters of all levels for over 35 years, and has taught U.S. Figure Skating Regional Champions as well as Sectional and Junior National medalists.
Jackie has been heavily involved with US Figure Skating and the now-disbanded Professional Skaters Association, receiving many awards and honors for her service to the sport in the United States (including the 2000 PSA Developmental Coach of the Year, the 2006 PSA Volunteer of the Year, and the 2009 PSA Lifetime Achievement Award). She is a strong advocate for coaches education and development and she’s a highly sought-after guest speaker for figure skating clubs throughout the USA.
Jackie’s skaters benefit from her extremely positive energy and attitude, and she is well-known not only for her technical coaching ability but her focus on character, integrity, superb sportsmanship and being a positive role model for others.
Although primarily a figure skating coach, Jackie is also a highly-respected hockey power skating instructor. Established in 1990, Brenner Edge and Power Skating has helped many students pay hockey at an elite level including Tier1 juniors, college, and the NHL. She worked with Professional Hockey Player Matt Donovan (Defenseman for the New York Islanders) from a young age on power skating encompassing edge quality, turn execution, speed, and agility drills. She continues to work with hockey players at all levels in the OKC area.
Most recent videos at the top…
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Double Axel – Part 2 (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner continues sharing insights and drills for double axel development. In Part 1 she offered many general axel insights and focused on single axel attempts. In this video, she finishes adding thoughts about the single before focusing on the double. When analyzing a single axel for the double, Jackie says, “For the… …Continue reading →
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Double Axel – Part 1 (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares insights and drills for double axel development. She begins by asking the skater to walk through a double axel. Notice that there is no ‘rotation’ in this walkthrough, as the skater instead focuses on specific positions and movements. To emphasize take-off edge pressure, Jackie has the skater “pulse” the edge… …Continue reading →
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Flying Camel Suggestions (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares some ideas and suggestions for flying camel. She begins by noting that flying camel has become something of a forgotten spin since it is not considered a difficult entry in IJS competition, making other flying spin entries more attractive in terms of levels and points. But flying camel continues to… …Continue reading →
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Change Edge Camel (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares some tips for helping skaters get more comfortable with the transition from a basic forward camel to a change edge camel. She begins by noting that in a basic camel the skate is gliding backwards creating back inside circles. To get to the change edge camel, the skater does a… …Continue reading →
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Improving the Butterfly (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner offers some tips for improving the butterfly flying spin entry. Note that this video is not an instruction video for how to do a butterfly, but it provides some suggestions that will make a solid or even good butterfly great. Jackie begins by asking her 2 demonstrators what they think of… …Continue reading →
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Biellmann Spin Tips (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares some helpful tips and insights for the Biellmann spin (upright spin variation). In previous videos of this series, Jackie covered basic spins and layback spins. In this video, Jackie begins by explaining a common error for the Beillmann spin which is not grabbing and gathering the free foot close to… …Continue reading →
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Layback Spin Tips and Ideas (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares some tips and ideas for basic layback spins and variations. Jackie covered valuable spin basics in the previous video. She begins by having the skater do a “classical” layback spin. Jackie then addresses one of the most common issues with laybacks, “I would love to see her try to initiate… …Continue reading →
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Observations Regarding Basic Spins (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner shares thoughts, insights, and observations about basic spins. She begins by explaining that she has her skaters do a set of basic spins every day as part of their warm up, and these include scratch back scratch, sit change sit, camel change camel, a flying camel, and a layback. She then… …Continue reading →
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Single Axel in Preparation for the Double (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner continues a lesson with a skater who is moving from the Preliminary level all the way to Intermediate competition level. (See Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4 of the lesson.) In this video, Jackie is sharing valuable tips regarding single axel with the intention of helping this skater… …Continue reading →
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Double Toe Loop Lesson (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner continues a lesson with a skater who is moving from the Preliminary level all the way to Intermediate competition level. (See Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 of the lesson.) After the skater performs a double toe loop from a forward inside three turn, Jackie talks a little about the… …Continue reading →
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Double Loop and Double Salchow Lesson (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner continues a lesson with a skater who is moving from the Preliminary level all the way to Intermediate competition level. (See Part 1 and Part 2 of the lesson.) After the skater does a double loop, Jackie discusses the concept of jump skill performance level expectation at these different competitive levels.… …Continue reading →
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More Floating and Landing Position (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner continues her discussion of floating the jumps and she also improves a skater’s landing position. In the previous video she discussed the basic concepts of floating jumps as a way to prepare for moving from single to double and double to triple (and triple to quad). Floating jumps like this is… …Continue reading →
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“Floating” the Jumps (Jackie Brenner)
National level coach Jackie Brenner discusses the idea of “floating” jumps as part of the development process when adding another rotation to a jump (typically doubles to triples, and single to double axel). After introducing herself and her skater, Jackie clarifies the issue. She says, “What happens sometimes when we go from double to triple… …Continue reading →