World and Olympic coach Robert Tebby talks about the triple salchow and offers helpful tips that apply to all skaters, as well as individual feedback for each of the skaters in the class he’s teaching. This video is a continuation of his previous salchow presentation here. In that previous video, he shared some ideas regarding position and timing for the salchow jump. In this video, he focuses on the triple.
To begin the video, Robert offers one of the most important tips for any skater working on triples, and especially triple salchow. With properly technique the jump is “easy”. What he means is with the desired speed and flow and correct body positions and timing, the movements necessary to create a triple are not that difficult. For the salchow in particular, because the inside edge can be relatively slow and balanced, increasing entry speed is very helpful so the jumps “does itself.” He says, “Once you have a little bit more confidence, you let the speed and the technique do the jump for you.” He cautions skaters who typically slow down when attempting new skills/jumps that using a slow entry speed makes a triple salchow much harder. He says simply, “Don’t go slower when you want to do the triple.”
In the second half of this video, we get to see many of the skaters in the class attempt a triple salchow. And we get to hear Robert’s comments on each one. Notice how Robert wants every triple salchow attempt to finish with a landing position, whether the skater landed the jump, did not land it but stayed up, or fell. He recommended that one skater spend more time trying the jump rather than focusing on walkthroughs. He told another skater who was opening in the air prior to landing to add a single loop to the landing to help keep the body in the right position on the way down. With another skater he suggested neater arms for the air position, and for another he mentioned fixing the head position/movement.
When one skater popped an attempt, Robert offered one of the classic corrections that is often misunderstood. On jumps with high entry speeds, skaters need to feel as though they are purposely slowing the movements down. In reality, the timing of a jump with a higher entry speed is actually faster, but it typically feels slower to skaters. This is due to the increase in rotational forces created by the edge and the higher entry speed, which typically fools the skater into using timing that is simply too fast.
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