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I. Equipment
II. First Strokes
1. First Time
2. Double Sculling
3. Pushing Off
4. Forward Stroking
5. Stopping
6. Forward Cross
7. Skating Backward
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III. Four Basic Edge Positions
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11. Spread Eagle
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13. Inside Spiral
14. Inside Mohawk
15. Outside Forward
16. Exercises
IV. The Four Rolls
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21. Waltz Eight
22. Mans 10-Step
V. School Figures
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25. Preliminary Test
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27. Forward Change
28. Threes-to-Center
29. U.S.F.S.A. First Test
VI. Completing
30. Inside Backward Eight31. Outside Threes
32. Backward Change
33. Inside Threes
34. Basic Theory
VII. Free Skating
35. Basic Spirals
36. Dance Steps
37. Basic Spins
38. Basic Jumps
39. Construction
VIII. Four Ice Dances
40. Dutch Waltz
41. Fiesta Tango
42. Fourteen Step
43. American Waltz
IX. Skater
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| 10. Outside Forward Spiral |
Next on our list is the outside forward spiral (Illus. 13)—in my opinion, the most important edge in skating. Once you have mastered its sideways body lean, all skating will seem easier to you.
Again stand in T-position, right foot leading so that you will progress around a circle clockwise. Stand with your back to the center of the circle you are about to skate, with your skating hip and shoulder leading and your free hip and shoulder directly behind. Curve your right arm in front of your body, with the right hand a foot or so in front of your stomach toward the outside of the projected circle. Turn your head over your right shoulder. Again without changing position at all, skate five strong strokes, ROF, LIF, ROF, LIF, and hold the fifth on a deep-leaning ROF edge. Lean your whole body to the right from the side of your blade, back straight, hips tight, and eyes turned over the skating shoulder so that you are fully conscious of the angle of lean.
To maintain control, constantly press back your free hip and leg as well as your free shoulder and arm. In this way both your shoulders and your hips will be in line with (or parallel to) the line of the circle (or your skating foot). The free foot, as always well turned out and pointed, should be carried directly over the tracing on the ice behind your skating foot. The free hip, too, should be turned out in its socket so that the inside of the free knee is toward the ice. Contrary to the inside edge position, this free knee should be rigidly straight for maximum control. Your shoulder line should be about level, skating shoulder feeling the weight and perhaps a shade lower. The hips should be definitely level, with downward pressure on the free hip to maintain your balance on the back center of your blade where it belongs. Raising the free hip is a common fault. True, it will press in your skating side and give you a strong feeling of edge but it will, by the same token, pitch you forward and off balance. Keeping the skating hip pressed in is, of course, vital to control, perhaps most of all to this edge, but you must acquire this control through the correct forward position of the pelvis, the tightening of the buttocks, and the strengthening of the upper thigh muscles of the skating leg.Are You Ready To Move Onto The Next Lesson? Click Here...
