A super simple one-foot edge drill adapted from my ice skating days
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v.redd.itPosted Apr 5, 2022, 7:19 PM UTC
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v.redd.itWhere are you skating? Is it an unoccupied ice rink in the summer or something? I've seen a few people skate on similar pavement and it's always empty otherwise.
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It’s an outdoor inline hockey rink at a local school! I go during the school day and it’s almost always empty.
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Thanks! Would love it if you could post more of the exercises you are working on. I’m also new to skating and seeing drills like this is very helpful!
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I’ll try next practice session!
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Hey, thanks! I'd really be interested in proper foundation and conditioning drills. I skated and bladed when I was a kid, now I'm getting back into it. Skating older and not knowing basics feels so much harder, like I'm working harder than I need to, if that makes sense.
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I totally get what you mean, I’m over 30 and my ice skating days were looooong ago! I feel like Dirty Deb is the best and most accessible resource if you don’t have access to in-person teaching!
I also think a check-in with a live teacher can be super helpful every once in a while, even if you don’t go regularly.
My favorite simple strengthening drill right now is one I learned from Coco Franklin at a workshop last fall—very deep, low bubbles, basically a bubble squat. Forwards and backwards! I didn’t skate much over the winter, so it’s helping me build my strength back up and get used to new skates. Backwards is especially killer 😭
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Thanks for this idea! I’ve only been skating off and on for about ten months now and haven’t thought to do this. Great idea. Now I just need to find a big space to do it in. My garage is too small. 😩
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very good drill to fix body leans on the rockover and to help stay square to the tracing
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Added to my drills list and will try today! Thank you!
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Thanks so much for posting this! I’ve been looking up drill videos for a while and have yet to see this one! I need edge practice bad but wasn’t really sure what I should do. I think this will a huge help with understanding weight transfer ❤️
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Hi everyone! I hesitated to share this because it seems so basic, and because I still consider myself a beginner skater (been skating since last May with a break for the winter), but I thought it might be helpful for very new skaters just getting started and wondering what/how to practice.
I was an ice skater for my whole childhood through late teens, and I've approached the skill progression for quad skating along the same lines as the ISI freestyle program for ice skating. This is the drill I remember doing when learning/practicing edges on ice skates.
Basically, you find or make a line, and then you do one foot at a time, trading off when you get back to the line.
Most of the quad skating edge drills I've seen in tutorials have you do it on a circle or a figure 8, which is of course important—but what I like about this one is that it shows you VERY CLEARLY where the differences between the two halves of your body are. It really helps you get both sides even.
An excellent drill. Should always be included in a warm up. It can be added to:
do an S where when you get back to the line, stay on the same foot and do the opposite edge, when you get back to the line change feet and do an S on that foot.
Do them backwards. Big addition there.
Cool ericavee, great reminder!!!!
Absolutely yes to those variations! I'm working on edge changes and backwards now (they are v much not ready for filming, lol).
I see lots of newbie skaters going in for the tricks without practicing their building blocks and it has me stressed. I think it's good to show very new folks exactly WHAT makes up a practice session!
Exactly! Edge control on one foot is THE primary skill to master. I mean, everything is really about being one one foot less a simple 2 footed coast. And beyond that, we’re always on an edge- rarely on center!
Where I come from, Team Artisic Dance, figures are the underlying fundamentals to all the dances. (Like cone work is to inline dancing). Your drills are awesome outdoor versions of figures.
*** I had to update this after chatting with a few folks. I had not taken park skating into much consideration- or even derby, tho less so. Mistake- park skaters are constantly on both feet. In fact it’s rare park skaters are ever on one foot for more than a fleeting second. The skewed stance is a stability requirement pre and post for most tricks. But I’m certainly not a park skater. Derby folks cross over and transition frequently which IS one foot. But still, my statement, “everything is about one foot…” is not as applicable to park skating.
That certainly doesn’t mean building one foot muscle memory isn’t highly beneficial to both park and derby also.
Ahh that is so cool! I would love to get proper artistic instruction.
I have also been thinking about getting back into ice skating and training figures! I’m just really enamored of them, and figures also seems like the one discipline where older folks can be competitive at the highest levels. Would love to learn on quads as well.
Yup! I’ve been doing circles and figure 8s and feeling good and then I found a one foot slalom tutorial and really discovered how uneven my sides are!