hey guys it's Mary welcome back to my channel today we're gonna work on my
favorite exercises for the axel jump you guys got this hope you guys are
ready for this one first let's start with the basics we're gonna review the
entrance edge into an axel jump so let's use a circle we're going to be on
a nice outside edge slightly leaning into the circle with our head and chin
up we are going to step outside the circle
elbows back like that right shoulders back and jump outside the circle
grabbing a backspin and now that we got that down pat let's go ahead and try a
walk through
I like to break down the axel into three definite positions position one
when your knee is back arms back getting ready position when you rock up to your toe
pick hit that H position in the air the knee
is nice and high kind of parallel to ice in position 3 when you catch your back
snap your hips stand nice and straight
now that we've got the basics down let's go over some my favorite axel
exercises first off I like to warm up everything at the wall let's
practice the axel exercise at the side wall
practice a nice outside edge the forward skating foot makes a sharp U on the ice while the other leg jumps
outside the circle is getting into our second axel position the knee up in
the air nice H that we're making hitting the toe pick
and then snapping the hip my next favorite exercise is the axel walk through on
the line we're going to do a waltz jump our forward edge you can do a quarter turn
on the ice we're going to think about jumping
outside the circle I think about pointing my knees and my arms to the opposite wall
grabbing the back spin spinning one and a half times quickly on the ice and checking out
for our next axel jump exercise we are going to do the bell jump this is
going to help build our confidence for the axel
I like the bell jump because it teaches us proper transfer of weight we're going to
get up as high as we can in the air try to rotate one full revolution in the air
clicking our feet and landing forwards this is a nice halfway point to the axel
which is one and a half revolutions in the air to have a good axel you need to have a good
backspin we are doing essentially a back spin in the air during the axel and
checking out so let's practice the back spin exercise just spinning one and a
half times in the air and then jumping out quickly
it should be to go from a waltz jump to an axel a big jump from one half
revolution to one and a half revolutions in the air let alone taking off going
forward outside edge is quite scary so I love this back 3 turn exercise
just try to snap nice and tight start off with half revolutions and then full
revolutions and try to stay in for one and a half revolutions we are going to
focus on trying to keep our shoulders nicely level staying nice and tight with
our arms slightly on the right side of your body if you are righty legs
nice and tight the tighter we are in our back spin position the quicker we are
rotating according to physics
now that will warmed up with our axel jump exercises lesson try some axels
I like to teach my students doing swing rolls into the axel what this exercise
helps us to do is practice the way to transfer that we need to launch
ourselves in the end for the axel it also teaches us after we do the swing
wall to set up lining up our shoulders with our hips properly to get into the
axel
another exercise I'd like is to do a box jump and then go straight into the axel
a lot of times I see my skaters getting all nervous to the axel there was times
it's nice and huge and beautiful and then an axel is teeny tiny because the
take-off is scary by doing a lot jump and an axel back to
back you're getting used to bring in your leg and bringing your arms back and
going all the way through and keeping the momentum one final axel exercise are
side toe hops into an axel I love the side toe hop exercise because it's
similar to how we do off ice axles trying to get some momentum because we
don't have our blades so let's just transfer what we know off ice on our two
feet to our blades
hope you guys like this tutorial be sure to LIKE subscribe and comment below on your
axel progress and see you guys next time happy skating!