Freestyle 1 Requirements

Hey guys me here again, today I am going to talk about the freestyle 1 requirements. This is a pretty big step up, first of all this is your first real jump, and spin you will be learning! Wow you are getting so advanced now, anyway here are the requirements you will need for this level.

1. Waltz Jump
2. Two foot spin
3. Back edges
4. Pivot
5. Spiral
6. Half Flip

For the waltz jump you want to make sure your leg when you are doing the take goes up and forms the figure of a stair case, transfer your weight, this can be hard even I have trouble so don't worry if you can't do it at first, don't also expect to land it fully the first time, it doesn't just automatically come. For the spin when teaching I noticed one thing about the arms, when you go into it after the wind up you want to have your arms out in front of you then pull them in like your hugging a beach ball, then pull them into your chest and down, this will help for scratch spin. everything else should be pretty easy to learn, the spin and the jump is the trickiest that many people have trouble with.

Introduction to Iceskating

Hello ice skaters and welcome back to another post, today I am going to teach the basics of iceskating such as the levels you will go through (ISI) and explain the basics into (USFS). In this post I will also  be explaining what moves, jumps, and spins for each level, and most of all the life of an ice skater, for my next post i will be talking about what it takes to be an ice skater, so don't forget to check that out! So lets get started.
First of all ice skating is one of those sports that take a lot commitment, remember ice skating is not an easy sport, of course as a person who does not skate you don't think about the edges, the strength, and the balance you need for that sport, but guess what you can learn the tricks ice skaters use them selves at your local rink, now heres what I recommend as a beginner, depending on your age you may want to consider wearing a helmet if you are 3-5. Definitely as a beginner and you are not comfortable on ice then I would recommend elbow and knee pads, even I sometimes wear them when working on jumps and trust me they are life savers if you take a hard fall. One thing you absolutely  need is a pair of skates. Maybe if you are starting in the first few lower levels but heading towards around freestyle one you will want to buy your own pair of skates. This is because when you reach about that level you start jumps and you will need the support in your feet, and the rentals are not very well made and do not support your feet very well. I would suggest start with the very beginner kind of skates, usually the skate shop guys who are in charge will ask what level you are at or what kind of stuff your working on, and they will know what kind of pair is right for you. Now lets look at the levels you will go through before you start besides the pads and maybe the helmet you will want to get a pair of gloves, and SOCKS VIP, and of course wear warm things.
The first level if you are about 5 or under you will start at tots. This class may be divided into different kinds for example you may be going from tot A to tot B or something like that. In that class you will learn the basics such as how to fall and get up, learn swizzles which is moving your feet in a diamond like shape across the ice, imagine seeing a line of diamond like shapes all lined up across the ice. Anyway you will learn forward marches, and they may ask you just to do a tiny hop right in place, and lastly you will learn dips/tea pots which is just gliding on two feet in a imaginary chair position..
The next level or you may start at this level is pre alpha, in this level you review and practice somethings you did in tots such as the falling and the swizzles but you will learn how to go backwards. You will learn a one foot glide which is when you glide on one foot. You will learn wiggles forwards and backward you may even learn them in tots any way to. Finally you will learn or do exercises that teach you how to do a crossover!
This level is alpha, in alpha, you learn how to do forwards stroking, crossovers, and snow plow stops. A crossover looks like someone who crosses one foot over another while the stroking is just when people push of a leg and extend there leg out back and forth. The snow plow stops are stopping with one foot doing the stop. You may also do exercises for doing back crossovers. Which leads to our next level.
The next level you will complete is beta, in this level everything is basically the same as alpha but backwards. You will learn how to do backward crossovers, t stops which is stopping in a t position. You are going to learn backward stroking but this time you are basically doing half backward swizzles the same leg you used for the half swizzle.  Now you are ready to attempt your first real mini jump.
In this level most people at least at my rink have their own pairs of skates. In this level you will learn how to do a bunny hop your first jump which is almost like practicing the take off for waltz jump. you learn how to do a mohawk, three turn and in delta edges. But in gamma and delta is almost the same thing. Now you are entering the freestyle mode! Yes all these levels it's self is hard and a lot of work but if you stay committed and keep working you will get it. Check back for my individual posts for the freestyle levels!

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Everything About my Ice Skating Life and Hoy I Stayed Into the Sport

Hello It's Lily Z again! This time I'm really excited to share my passion and life as an ice skater! It started when I was about four years old as my family was scoping out different activities do do on the weekends for fun, exercise, and to keep us busy. I started off in kokokahi gymnastics every Saturday morning but, unfortunately we quit a year later because one my sisters and I weren't really that interested also because my one of my sisters kept laughing the whole entire class. Later we found hula! I took hula every Sunday, it was such a hassle for us and, we were required to go to many of these hula shows and competitions that it just became to much. Also my dad thought we weren't really learning anything and it was a waste of time and it was. Next we found Ice Skating! Well we kind of popped in because we actually knew about ice skating lessons ever since my oldest sister went public skating with Auntie Donna and she loved so we started signing up. So my dad and my sister started in a beginner class about beta. Sadly my dad quit because he kept falling but it's hard sport so I can't blame him at all. A year later my other sister and I started in tots which we learned how to do swizzles, forward wiggles, and marching. After a couple years I was stuck in Alpha for about 1-2 years because my left leg use to be week so I had trouble balancing on it But, I never knew I had a week leg until this sport appeared in my life because one thing I never realized the truth about when I was adapted I was very sick and malnourished about 17.5 pounds at age two because the orphanage didn't take very good care of me I was dirty, and skin and bone, this lead to a feeding tube for a few years (please don't judge) and me having trouble walking up stairs and hills for awhile. I was scared of everything loud noises and people. This is probably because I was abused in the orphanage. Over time my father would always use help practice walking up the stairs and  our drive way. I couldn't start walking up these things until around five. All these things affected me academic wise as well I started school later then usual at age four first year of pre school I started in a public school when everybody already could speak hundreds of words I could only speak thirty words. We deiced to transfer to LJA because it would be better for me also because the people told my mom that I would never be able to talk well like I would be sent to a special school boy was my mom at them. When it came to crossovers from movement it was very hard for me to balance I used to always stop then crossover from a stand still. This is when my family decided to start private lessons, we started with Coach Connie! We started Coach Connie was always a nice, patient, and fun to be with. Luckily this was huge bonus for all of even though it took many blocks I never gave up on this sport because I knew even if took another year or so I could get a crossover over another one. My parents always remind how important it is to try our best because if you never try you'll never be able to reach your goals in life. This encouragement made me want to keep trying until I got a crossover then finally got crossovers one public skate it felt so accomplishing it's like being one of those Olympic champions! My dad saw me doing crossovers just like everybody else from the bleachers he smiled at me as if he was saying "I knew you could do it. This is the reason we stayed in ice skating because you stayed committed to this." This naturallymade my oldest sister get into the sport ever since then she loved it and she still does. After that huge pause in skating I started leveling up so quick. After a few years I met another Coach Robyn which my sisters had a while before me. She was very helpful towards building me into a skater. A couple years later I wasn't able to take from my Connie because I passed her level. I was sad to have to lose her as a coach but today we like to talk about skating or other. This leads to today. Now I enjoy jumping and spinning mostly spinning. Anyway my favorite spins are the sit spin, and pancake and my favorite jump is split jump.
An extra thing I enjoy is skating in LA with professional coaches like Frank Carrol, Linda Fratianne, Victoria etc. I enjoy this experience because it improves me as a skater not only that but they understand how it works. Though I never took from Frank but my sister told me that he told her you can't make someone do the jump, you can help someone but they decide in their mind if they're going to land it. Victoria would tell me the of dynamics of creating a spin and she told me that you don't have to be one of those people with their name on the wall to enjoy skating. She enjoyed spinning a lot but her name didn't appear on the wall. Another coach that I'm so glad I met her is Heather! I so glad because she is very fun, nice to talk to. Also she knows my coach Robyn. She use to take lessons from Robyn, This helps through communication especially because she makes a great effort to be upbeat and cheerful she helps plan our lesson schedule and we like to share humor.
Another Coach was Tiffany Stiegler she was a pair skater with her brother Johnny! She enjoys sharing her passion towards skating. She gave me great tips on how to improve she helped with my posture. Unfortunately   I won't be able to take lessons from her for a while because she  just recently took off with a new baby.
I'm glad I turned into a skater because I think it's a unique sport and it's very fun. I love the challenges in ice skating and how much effort it takes to become more advanced. Also I like how you can do so much like invent or make famous like what Linda Fratianne did she made up a Fratianne spin.
Thank you for reading! 

Collections Of My Skating

Hey guys post of the day has arrived! Today I'll be posting collections of My Ice Skating!

Me gliding in a spiral

Me doing a sit spin

Me doing a scratch spin

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