Exercises To Help Adult Figure Skaters Use Their Arms | Figure Skating

[@LolaBalletAndFigureSkate]

Of course I’ll suggest this since I’m a former ballerina who went into figure skating and recently went back to ballet to help with skating, but ballet training should be more required/popularized as a very important training for figure skating. Not only musicality, artistry, posture, body lines, but port de bra absolutely makes a difference if the skater has ballet experience and training.

[@nextedgetutorials]

Ballet definitely helps ❤️❤️❤️

[@Billy-Spence-feet]

Super elegant graceful arms. It's absolutely possible to make even basic skills look more advanced and interesting by emphasising upper body and arms. I think however many people arent naturally drawn to using their arms in this way, particularly if they're not from a dance background. If you can get over the "do i look a bit silly" doing this... You'll be the envy of the rigid army ;)

[@nextedgetutorials]

Practice at home in the mirror to get comfortable 👍❤️ this will help lots. Just try adding a couple of arms on your warm up on the ice and getting comfortable with that. Before you know it, you will be doing it naturally without thinking 😉❤️

[@johannabarry4672]

Amazing! Arms always seem to be forgotten in the struggle to get elements.

[@kailynn4483]

Arms and face. At least I often look veeeery concentrated and probably more like sitting on the toilet than doing figure skating. 😅 I think I should start to learn to smile all the time, to make it a habit to look friendly instead of too focused on what I'm doing. 😂

[@johannabarry4672]

@@kailynn4483 lol! Me too!

[@kailynn4483]

@@johannabarry4672 There's just too much to think about! 😅

[@nextedgetutorials]

I think because we focus so much on our feet ☺️❤️

[@brookehaley4763]

This is great! Can you do a similar video about head movement?

[@nextedgetutorials]

Absolutely 👍❤️

[@asya_matburo]

I'll try at home first ;). Thank you

[@nextedgetutorials]

Fabulous ❤️❤️❤️

[@LemonLutz]

I need to learn this right now. I am shooting up through levels really fast because I was a gymnast (beginner 1 to aspire in 3 months), but the whole arms concept is so new to me! I forget about them all the time and screw up my skills when I do! 😣

[@nextedgetutorials]

Definitely give this video a go 👍 absolutely amazing you moving up so quickly. You will get the arms 😉Keep up the fabulous work ❤️❤️❤️

[@LemonLutz]

Thank you so much! I am sure I will get stuck at higher level skills just like everyone else 🤷🏻‍♀️☺️

[@MDMarck1401]

Excelente 👌 Gracias por su video 👍 😊Saludos desde México ✨️🌎⛸️⛸️

[@nextedgetutorials]

Very welcome ❤️❤️❤️

[@fuscia13]

Thank you for another excellent and useful video ⛸️✨

[@nextedgetutorials]

My pleasure!❤️❤️