Ice Skating Tutorial for Advanced Skaters

Hey, I'm Kate and this is a figure skating tutorial for advanced skaters. This is for a high level skater who's passed the elements from my starter, beginner, and intermediate videos. Elements I've grouped in this level will be performed and explained in order to allow you to identify the moves and even try them yourself. The moves in this level are the flip, lutz, loop, camel spin, and the layback spin. First we're going to do the flip and the lutz. There are half versions of both of these toe jumps and I taught them in my intermediate 2 video. I jump and spin counterclockwise and therefore will demonstrate jumps and spins counterclockwise. Here's the flip. You can begin the flip with a left forward outside three turn with a little toe tap. The flip takes off with a left back inside edge. To do the flip, begin by getting some speed. I do some backwards clockwise crossovers and a step forward and cross before beginning the jump. Then to be able to do the flip, do a left forward outside three turn with the toe tap at the start. Once you're backwards, your right foot will extend behind you and into the ice. To take off, push up using both legs and ultimately using the toe of your right foot. During the jump, your left foot should be crossed over your right at about the angles and once you've rotated 360 degrees and are backwards again, land on your right foot and extend your left leg behind you. For your arms, they can begin with left in front and right to the side at about one and three until the toe pick goes in the ice and you jump. This is when arms come together and up and once you land, they open out again as shown. And here's the flip one more time. Now for the lutz. This jump takes off backwards on the left outside edge with the right toe assisting it. You can begin with clockwise crossovers on a slight curve and arms hugging the curve. You then pick up the right foot as the arms move to one and three. Next, extend the right foot behind as the arms move more to the right and your body winds up preparing for the jump. Then the right toe pick goes into the ice extended far behind your body into the left of your left foot. You launch yourself into the air with feet crossed at ankles and arms up and in. You rotate 360 degrees counterclockwise in the air and then land backwards in landing position, which as you most likely know by now is on the right foot with arms out and extended as shown at about 10 and 2 if they were on a clock and your left foot is extended behind your body. And that is the lutz. The last jump I'll be showing you is the loop. This is an edge jump and it takes off from a right back outside edge. Two common entrances into a loop are right forward inside three turn and crossovers. I'll show you how to do the loop from crossovers. First, begin with some backwards counterclockwise crossovers and arms heading the circle. Once you have gathered enough speed, press into the ice bending your knee with your weight on your right foot on your back outside edge and use it to press into the ice and jump up and around rotating 360 degrees counterclockwise with feet crossed at ankles and landing backwards on your right foot with the left extended behind and arms out in typical landing position. Now for the camel spin. This is difficult but practice really makes perfect. There are two possible entrances into a camel either from a three turn or from crossovers. I'll be demonstrating from a three turn. So you begin with a right forward inside three turn. It's important that after the turn your left arm is in front of you because once you step onto your left foot your left arm needs to push out from your body and all the way to your left side. At the same time when you step onto your spinning foot you need to bend over at the waist and lift your free leg straight and high behind you in a basic spiral position. Additionally when performing a camel spin you must keep your weight on the front half of your blade and your body over it. Once you've made some rotations allow your body to straighten and your foot to drop and to go into a one foot spin before exiting your spin on a right back outside edge. And here's a camel spin one more time. Now for the last move, the layback spin. As with other spins there are two possible entrances into a layback spin. It's either from back crossovers or from a three turn. I'll be demonstrating from the inside three turn. Two helpful tips while performing a layback are to really push your hips forward like this and remember to let your head drop back. So we'll now begin with the right forward inside three turn. You then step onto your left foot and begin a one foot spin with the arms coming up and in however you like. At the same time you need to push your hips forward and let your upper body drop back. Also at the same time when you step into your spin your right leg which is lifted into the air starts to come forward. It'll come about halfway to the front of the body but then as you spin you'll spin away from your leg letting it go behind your body and holding it up in the air bent and angled with pinky toe side up. Once you've completed some rotations you can bring yourself into an upright spin position before exiting the spin. Well those are all the advanced moves I have to show you but as this is the last of my videos I just want to make sure you know that there are many other skating elements. Things like the axle, double jumps, combination jumps and spins, brackets, rockers, flying spins and much more. Anyway thanks for watching and I hope this video helped you.