Moves in the field expert Karen Heng Olson continues her presentation on the USFS Intermediate Moves in the Field pattern. In the first video of the series, Karen introduced some basics. In the second video, she started to build the forward outside twizzle pattern with an emphasis on improving the cross strokes. In the third video, Karen shared an exercise intended to help the skater get comfortable rotating the twizzles faster. In this video, Karen addresses other helpful tips for developing these twizzles and the twizzle pattern.
As a tip for the cross stokes, Karen explains it as being square, with the hips working against the shoulders in a way that lets the skaters head continue to look down the ice in the general direction of travel. She then demonstrates how this looks on the twizzle pattern.
To make the twizzles look better and rotate faster, it’s necessary to improve the free leg position. Karen likes the position with the thighs squeezing together and the free foot next to the skating foot. She explains it as “Leave the leg behind, [then] draw it in from the insides of the thighs. So the foot comes through really narrow.”
Karen finishes the video offering an important insight about how twizzles relate to jumping in figure skating. She says, “I think it’s a good thing to think about when you’re doing moves is how you can relate it to free style.”
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