International coach Page Lipe continues with a double lutz lesson and shares more valuable tips regarding the lutz. In the first part of this lesson, Page focused on the arms. In this video, the primary focus is the hips and how the skater picks into the ice.
Notice how Page wants the skater to have a strong reach but pick into the ice very close (almost side-by-side) to the skating foot. This is in direct contradiction to the “old school” method of putting the pick in the ice as far back as possible and “drawing the feet together on the ice.” Page explains why the latter method is usually a poor choice, as the skater typically has a much harder time getting over the picking hip and an unwanted change of edge is much more likely.
Page talks about making the toe pick “come underneath you more” and she shows a drill at the wall to develop the correct feeling and timing. She says, “Try to pick right underneath yourself” and the drill has the hips pressed up against the boards. Notice the focus on internal rotation of the hips, which is necessary on a lutz. The skater keeps confirming that Page wants her to “pick closer” which is the most common response of skaters to these ideas. Page says, “I’m looking for her (non-picking) foot to come off the ice when it’s right beside the other foot.”
If a skater has some success with a correction and can describe it, it often doesn’t matter what the description is (correct or incorrect), having the skater think about it like that will produce similar positive results. Page says, “If your student comes up with wording that makes sense to them, they need to use that.”
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