How to Stay Off Your Toe Pick in a One Foot Spin - Figure Skating Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Hello Skaters! Today I am going to be answering some more of you questions and skating struggles you shared with me a few weeks ago in this video... • Solving Your Biggest F... where I asked your biggest skating challenges. I saw a themes among the responses and one of those was that so many of you are going up onto your toe pick in a One Foot Spin and aren't sure how to fix that. In this video I am giving you 3 drills to help you find a better spinning position as you strengthen your foot to spin. Come back next week, when I will give you a few off-ice exercises to help strengthen your foot and improve your balance.
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We in the skating community owe you a huge debt of gratitude for all of the great tutorials and guidance that you provide for free. Rare is the person that shares knowledge like this. So big Thanks for all that you do.
I appreciate that!
as someone that struggles with spins the most, i needed this so badly! thank you! can’t wait to put these exercises into practice :)
You got this!
I am not learning 1 ft spins yet, I am trying to learn 2, but all the advice you gave about how to evolve from the middle of your foot to the rocker has helped IMMENSELY! I keep scratching my pick, losing control, and losing balence and I could not for the life of me figure out why and got extremely frustrated. With this new advice, you have brought my confidence up knowing what I'm doing is normal, and to not give up! Thank you as always coach Julia!!
That's great! I hope all that extra knowledge helps your skating improve! Good luck!
One tip that helped me immediately with my 2 foot spin is to keep my knees bent during the spin. Yes, if you're good, you're going to stand up straight so you spin faster, but you're not good yet. Standard technique is to bend your knees as you do the pivot to get the spin started. It helps to bend the knees like that, but keep them bent as you spin. Somehow that helps shift your weight back on the blade, away from the toe pick. Of course, on your left foot you need to keep the heel of the blade off the ice, that's a given. Hopefully you know that you should spin near the toe of the blade on the left foot and on the heel of the right foot. My coach advised me to keep my knees bent, don't stand up straight, and it helped me immediately. Another tip is to practive the spin slowly. It's easier to spin slow than it is to spin fast. You don't need a lot of speed to spin. If you hit the sweet spot you will spin effortlessly even at a slow speed. So leave your arms fully outstretched for 5 revolutions. I have found that by spinning slowly I can adjust my blades during the spin and I can easily feel when I get it right, it's like magic and the blades lose all friction with the ice. Coach Julia instructs, but other coaches do not, to point the right toe in while spinning. I have been working on this by practicing off ice pointing the right toe in hard, pushing the right heel out, and pointing the right knee in so that my knees touch. During my spin I focus on doing all that. Pointing the toe in feels odd and is difficult. Thinking of it as pushing the heel out is more do-able. Getting that right blade angled inwards makes a magical difference. I love to spin slowly! And I get good feedback from bystanders, saying that my spin looks "very controlled."
thank you julia. i've been skating for 4.5 years and i still struggle with the rocker balance. today's session was dedicated solely to figuring out the distribution and your video has empowered me to make some fine tuning. thank you!!
As always an awesome teaching. I am not a figure skater but am a sharpening technician that has seen to many blades that are flattened to the point that no balance point is found without pick interference. New blades may be required. Skaters and coaches need to be sure that the sharpening technician knows how to check for and prevent this issue.
Thanks for the input! It's always great to hear from other perspectives of the sport!
Pipe dream. No skating student can judge the quality of a sharpening job or technician. Probably 99% of coaches can't either, but even if they could, at $45 for a half hour lesson no coach will ever look at your blades.
Great tips, thanks so much! I tend to forget that the toes inside the boots can help or hinder many elements. I appreciate that you understand such subtle details to help us with!
You are so welcome!
Thank you so much Coach Julia. 1FS’s were really getting discouraging. Like, I’ve been making pretty good progress with Waltz and 1S jumps, but still look totally pathetic with 1FS’s, almost to the point that my coach wants to give up on me. I hope these tips can bring some progress.
You got this!
Dawg if ur coach is about to give up on you, find a new coach, because I know damn well a coach should be trying to look for what you're doing wrong and telling you how to fix it. I had been coached by a few people who never gave me tips on how to fix (mainly 1F stuff) and it sucked so bad. My ice rink buddies are better coaches I swear.
If a coach is ready for that because of your spin, your coach is failing to see where they’re not directing you properly.
My experience is that the quality of in person ice coaches is extremely low. It's like they are intentionally dragging you along and not telling you crucial tips in order to drag out your training for years. Also it seems like the group classes are a joke, just there as a drag net to snare people into expensive private lessons, and they intentionally give you very little effective coaching, You will learn more from RUclips than any in person coach, that's a given. However only an in person coach can see what you are doing wrong, which may be unsharp or misaligned blades, or flat feet etc. You need to look for additional coaching but if you only have one rink in town that will be uncomfortable, not to mention expensive.
@@TheLarryBrown Time has passed since my comment. Since then, I got my 1FS pretty okay, but struggling with forward and backward scratch spins. Everything else about my coach is okay. It's just spins that sometimes I question her, like you said, that she's intentionally teaching me the wrong way to do it.
Specifically, arm positions. I've watched advanced skaters at the rink, all sorts of video tutorials, even read textbooks about the spin and it seems you have your arms to the sides when you start spinning. (Swing your left arm from front to the side) Every time I do that, coach gets mad and says the left arm should be kept in front of my chest. Then she demonstrates and proves that it works like that. So I have no other choice but to follow and fail...
I lean forward AND clench my toes. It's so hard to correct, been working on this for over a year and still barely get 3 revs. I'm going to try these exercises and hopefully it'll help. Thanks so much for these videos.
I have the same issue
Clenching your toes might mean that the muscles at the bottom of your feet are overworking to compensate for weakness in the muscles on top of your feet and / or ankles. Aside from muscle strengthening exercises, padding / orthotics underneath the metatarsal joints (ball of the feet) might help you to sit further back towards your heel. Might be worth seeing a podiatrist?
@@CassandraESA podiatrist is not going to do anything useful for anyone.
You need extra help. Get with a private coach. Try a few different ones. You should see immediate improvement with the right coach. I've only worked on my one foot spin for a few sessions and I can do 4 revs...and I have no talent whatsoever.
I definitely needed this. I can’t for the life of me do a one foot spin. I got my waltz and salchow jumps but I was really discouraged that I still couldn’t do more than a two foot spin
Spins are really under-rated as far as difficulty. Keep practicing though! You will get it eventually!
i actually love you and your channel so much you explain things perfectly (speaking as someone who has ADHD and struggles with spins a lot). thank you for this video
Oh, I appreciate that so much. It means a lot to me.
Hi! Thank you so much for making these videos - this came out at the perfect time for me! You make everything make so much sense and have helped fix so many little errors I was making without realising it!
You are so welcome! I hope these tips help!
Thank you for creating your videos!! I’m new to figure skating and find them extremely helpful!!! 💕
Glad you like them!
fantastic video and exactly what i needed! ill be trying all of these exercises tomorrow on the ice. thank you!!
I hope you find these tips helpful!
Thank you for this! I can’t wait to practice these exercises.
You're so welcome! You got this!
Thank you so much! This was so helpful! Btw I love your videos they are really inspiring and have taught me a lot!❤️
I'm so glad!
Lift your toes up in your skates. That's what helped me.
Yes! That one can be a help as well.
yay! so excited for this!
I am so glad!
Thank you so much for this, you’ve helped me A LOT with your videos
You are welcome. I am glad to hear it.
This was exactly the issue I have been having and your video couldn't have come at a more perfect time. Some great tips that I had begun to notice were helping me improve regarding was trying to be more on the center of the blade like you advised. The exercises look great and I can't wait to try them out.
Oh I am glad this worked out then, timing wise! Hopefully these drills make a big difference for you.
This helped alot, thank you! I noticed that every time I spin I would keep going on my toe pick, which became a problem. I now know why that kept happening when I watched this video. My foot kept tensing up for some reason, I dont know why it does that. I cant wait to go back on the rink and fix my spins! Thank you so much Im glad this channel exists lolll!!
Thank you for this tutorial! I am waiting to try the exercise out tomorrow
Hope you like it!
Thanks. I learned to spin on RUclips and had trouble staying balanced on one foot. I knew it had to do with my weight placement. Can’t wait to try these tips out. Thanks!
I hope they helped!
that was really helpful! thank you))💜
I struggle so so much with spins this video is a godsend
Thanks Julia!! I hope this will help me! Sadly skating season is over so i will have to try your advice next season! But i will working on my off ice spins with these new tips :)
Sounds like a good plan! Put an off ice spinner to use with these!
Omg I suggested this one... thank you so so much ! I will practise this immediately when there is ice again...
Hope you like it!
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Congratulations, Coach Julia!
Thank you so much!!
I started watching your channel when I started skating and now I’m learning my lutz :)
Wow, that is awesome! Congratulations!
Thank you so so much for this video! I will definitely try these exercises next time i'm on the ice
You got this!
This is helpful, thank you again, Coach Julia
Glad it was helpful!
Omgg i just came home from training and I had this exact problem!!! Thanks 👍🏼
Hopefully these tips will help you!
I am a beginner and honestly didn't know you spin on the back inside edge 🤯 thanks for the eye opener! I legit thought you stay on the outside edge you enter the spin! I do have a coach but so far did not get much coaching out of it sadly so thank you for that! 😊😊
Happy to help! I personally learn best when things are really broken down, so that is how I like to teach.
@@CoachJuliaMe too, but rare is the teacher, not to mention ice coach, that can do that.
Thisappeared in time! I keep hitting the toe pick too! Cannot wait to try
I hope it helps!
thank you! ive been struggling with a new entrance for my spins for a while, hopefully these will help! i cant wait to try them tomorrow!:)
You got this!
@@CoachJulia thank you!
Omg this is my problem! Thank you so much!
Happy to help!
rhis is exactly what i needed omggg
I am so glad!
Thanks so much. Someone told me to pull my toes up but in the middle of all the arm and leg and hip and shoulder positions, thinking about toes is at the bottom of the list 🤣 staying upright being at the top of the list. Thank you for the exercises to help with posture and body position. Will be sure to give them a try. As always, a great video 😘 keep it up please 🙏🏻
There are always so many things to remember! That is why if you can commit some things to muscle memory, then the other things are easier to think about.
Thank you so much for your support, please make a video about keep balance while doing 2 foot spin for beginners and sit spin as well. Thank you so much ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
This really helps thanks
I am so glad to hear that!
Loving your videos. Thank you! Could you make a video explaining or visually showing what the rocker is? I'm not sure I understand where it is on the foot. Appreciate you.
Thank you so much Julia . This is exactly what I am looking for . Can’t work to practice on the exercises !
Also I am lefty . So I am spinning clockwise . I have to practice these exercices on my right foot .
I hope you find them helpful!!
I have been struggling with traveling spins for quite some time, but after watching your basic spin tutorials on the spinner and the ice I had success today with no traveling! Thank you so much for your videos and a reminder to me, when in doubt go back to the basics.
Oh my gosh, I am so glad to hear I could help. Congrats on the skating technique progress!
Is that one foot spin or two? What was the key technique that cured your traveling? For a two foot spin I think the following basic points will help with traveling: toe of left foot, heel of right, and especially point the right toe inwards.
Thank you!! Really struggling with being picky on spins and don’t want to ruin my new blades😊
Happy to help!
This is so helpful! I’m currently in bronze but can’t do the glide to one foot spin because I go on my toe pick so I’m excited to try this.
You got this!
Hi Coach Julia! I have trouble getting onto the rocker, I spin too far on the toepick. I’m still able to spin but I can feel the toepick slowing my spins down and I’m not able to spin more than 7 revs. I’m going to try out all of these exercises when I can and hopefully I can come back to this comment with an update! (June 12, 2024)
Thanks!
Wow, thank you! I really appreciate you!
Thanks soooo much Julia! This will help my improving so much! I love how you take the time to put in the comments and respond to them!
You're so welcome! I hope you find the tips helpful!
thank you!!
Thank you for watching!
Julia, You are magical ❤ I will remember this tip for when I am ready to use it. 😉 Hopefully before year 2030 😂
AWE, you are so sweet. Thanks!
Hey coach, I was wondering if you had any exercises for traveling that can be applied off-ice? I only have one day of ice time each week, so I don't have the most time to practice on spins. Anything that may help center and develop my spins would be great! Thank you for these incredibly insightful videos. 😅
P.S. I have a spin board and balance board, if those are necessary.
THANK U
You're welcome!
I recently discovered your channel and really appreciate the way you explain things in details, it helps to understand! :)
On the topic of this video, I was wondering if you had tricks on how not to have toe pick drag when i do backward skating? I am not sure why it happens, I think i'm not putting my weight where I should? maybe i'm leaning too much fowards
It does sound like your weight is too far to the front of your skate. Most of the time when skating backward you want your weight through the middle of your foot. Try doing some two-foot glides backwards and see if you can move your weight just behind the rocker so it is more under your arch.
@@CoachJulia I will try, thank you so much 💗💗💗💗
i dont skate, i haven't even seen snow, but i love watching ur vids
Awe, thanks so much for that!
Thanks for this! I needed it! It occurs to me I may be doing the opposite of ‘lifting your toes’ which is a mind bender for me on how this works inside your skates! I’ve actually been thinking of a slight ‘releve’ as I rise up (to use a ballet term) to push down into the ball if my foot. Is that not correct? How in the world do you “lift up your toes” without moving your weight backwards?
well, instead of doing a full flex, try standing barefoot and lifting just your toes off the ground, while keeping the ball off your foot still planted. That is basically the idea lifting your toes in spins. It is a technique that is really helpful for some people- not everyone, but some for sure!
Love learning from your videos; they are a great resource. My one foot spins always end up looking like really tight one foot backwards circles round and round, rather than a true spin. Will these exercises help with that? Am I coming off my rocker? No pun intended…
A one foot spin does spin in small circles. It's not a "spin in place" like you are thinking. It's just that a good skater makes a very small circle.
@CoachJulia the third exercise of all three spin positions: can the same idea be applied to other upright spins such as a scratch and attitude? Also on opposite leg for a back scratch spin?
Absolutely! It is great muscle training to be able to control the positions without the spin aspect.
Hi Coach Julia, I just started learning to skate at 42 years old. I have not done exercises much or regularly for the last 3 years. I’m not athletic, and my coordination isn’t very good. I had 10 classes so far, l fell a few times backwards, and a few times I strained my neck. It may be a stupid question, but what can I do to protect myself from straining my muscles? I wear knee pads and bum pads already.
Is it still normal to hear/feel a small bit of toepick scraping? Like the very bottom one. Usually you also see like spin lines,so wouldnt that mean you could partially still be scratching with your toepick, but that's not a bad thing?
Sorry that didnt make sense
I know exactly what you are talking about! Yes, that is normal. You want to minimize that as much as you can, by backing up your weight off the front of your skate. But it is normal to have a very fine amount of the bottom pick tracing the ice as you spin.
@@CoachJulia can you still slightly feel it though?
Hello Coach Julia ! Can you do a tutorial to make an axel, please ?
Thank you,
Fiona
I know people are really hoping for an axel tutorial. I assure you, I have that on my list to do.
My skates are mounted to help my pronation but it’s hard for me to skate on my outside edge when doing one foot glides and I still pronate and it’s hard finding/skating my outside edge when doing waltz jumps. How do I fix this problem or do I need to adjust my blades?
My skate technician inserted a thin piece of synthetic material between the outsole and blade plate on the outside area of the heel to help me correct my pronation. Coupled with the adjustment I made to my insole, I can now skate a straight line and do both inside and outside edges. These adjustments are much easier than moving blades. I use felt insoles, and the adjustment I've made is inserting thin pieces of felt, loose wool, and thin foam pieces to the inside areas under the insole until I feel my arch is not collapsing inwards.
Thank you! I’ve been skating for almost two years, and I’ve landed my single axel on ice, as well as my double toe off the ice. I can even do variations of twizzles. However, spinning has been the greatest challenge. Forward sits, camels, and especially scratches have been a struggle. So much so, that my coach and I have going back to the one foot spin to correct the errors in the entrance. I’ve worked on these on my own, and with my coach, but it’s only been getting worse. We’re both very confused, and disappointed, as the spin progress is hindering the progression into doubles. Do you have any tips?
Get the Gus Lussi videos since he's the recognized expert on spinning, which is not to say that I think the videos are that great.
As you spin should you be lifting the hip of the spinning leg or dropping it to put more pressure down into the foot? I know you said to lift the hip of the free leg but then on the first exercise you said push the weight down on the glide, does this apply in the spin too?
When coaches talk about pushing down they are talking about the knee. The skating hip is a non-issue, you don't need to think about it...but you do need to lift the hip of the free leg.
What depth do you get your skates sharpened? I want deep edges and grip, but was told that deep edges make blades slippery-er.... 🤔?
No....that's silly. Deep edges make the edges bite into the ice more, the opposite of slippery. I sharpen my skates as shallow as possible. When sharpened deeper it makes hockey stop harder and also makes them draggy and slow and I hate that.
Hi Coach Julia, I was just wondering does this exercise applies to backspin? So do we just switch to right inside edge?
It would definitely apply to the back spin! A back spin happens on a right back inside edge, so if you just make that switch, you can apply these exercises.
Thanks! Is it worth trying these exercises while I'm still learning the two-foot spins?
Absolutely! It will just get you better prepared.
@@CoachJulia thanks a lot!
Do you have any tips for bringing your freeleg closer to ur skating leg? i can do decent ish one foot spins but my free leg always feels like its far away
Hi there! I wanted to let you know that I answered your question in todays video! I hope you enjoy it!
can you do a video on how to do half swizzles?
I have half swizzles in my 'forward crossovers part 1' video!
Is the left leg supposed to be completely straight?
I have a problem of getting on toe pick on a two foot spin. Will these exercises help with the two foot spin as well, or there will be a different technique?
Try keeping your knees bent while doing your two foot spin. That will help you stay off your toe pick. It's ok to lightly drag the toe pick, although you eventually want to avoid that.
i already started learning the scratch but i feel like i have missed a step on learning the regular spin, it is hard for me to get balance and speed, when i straighten my leg (that's on the ice) while spinning i almost stop and i don't know what i have to improve. it feels like i can't find the balance on the ball of my foot like that part of the blade that we have to spin
How many revolutions can you do? You should be able to do more than 10 easily. Watch Coach Julia's video on the spin and you'll probably see what you're doing wrong. Toe of left foot, heel of right root, right toe pointing in.
This is a big problem for me. I'm a beginner skater, and still working on two foot spins. It's always my left toe pick skratching the ice. I've done off ice two foot spins a few times, on one of the big spinners, and I also fall forward on that... My trainer (I take group lessons) told me I need to strengthen my core more
Forget about strengthening your core. That's patent BS. Off ice spinner is irrelevant for a beginning spinner...forget about that. Realize that your left skate is skating in backwards circles. If you are dragging your toe pick, concentrate on putting the weight in the middle of your foot, right on the arch. At most you are just trying to barely lift the heel of the left blade off the ice. Realize that you are not trying to spin on the left blade on a single point on the ice...rather, the left blade needs to SKATE, not spin, in small circles in a backwards direction. One way to force that is the practice 2 foot spin with the feet far apart, that will force you to spin around a point that is equidistant between your two feet. Also practice putting weight on the right foot. A proper two foot spin will have weight equal on both feet, but a common mistake is to have most of your weight on your left foot.
@@TheLarryBrown Appreciate the advice, but the "patent bs" you refer to, is also not entirely correct. I've progressed fast the last couple months, and moved on to one foot spins and a little baby scratch spin. The issues I originally refered to is no longer a big problem. I worked on strengthening my core and practicing off ice spins, and there's a huge difference in my on-ice spins now. More speed, stability and revolutions. I'm able to lift my arms over my head too. I'm one of the only ones in my beginner skating-friendgroup who practices regularly on an off ice spinner, and there's a very big difference, even though we've been skating for the same amount of time. Off ice spinners also help with getting used to the feeling of dizziness etc.
Engaging my core is probably what helped me the most tho.
However, it's true most of my weight was on my left foot during my two foot spins, but keeping my core engaged also helped my balance which has made it much better.
@@cranma0125You didn't strengthen your core much in two months, if at all. What happened is you improved your technique and learned how to spin. How many revolutions were you at when you originally posted and how many are you at now?
When you are doing the 3 positions going forward, do you straighten your standing leg after entrance? It is hard to tell on the video.
Yes, you want to straighten by the time you are in the spin position, but it does not need to be fully straightened during the 'centering' position.
Thank you.
Can small boots (bit small or tight for my foot) effect my spin??
If your boots are too small you will get red marks on your feet. If you're getting red marks, you need to do something about it. Take the boots to the skate shop and then may be able to "punch" them to make more room where they are too tight. Your skates probably have a removable insert. Take that out and you can see how your foot fits on that, and you can get an idea if it's too small. If your skates are really too small for you, time for a new pair.
Hi I’m currently learning the 2 foot spin and I never know what to do with my arms when I spin. I cross them in an x but it feels awkward :/ is that normal? Or should I be doing something else?
Yes, you can cross them in an x, or just pull them in like a hug. I have a tutorial about a 2 foot spin in my 'spinning tutorials' playlist. Maybe that will help.
@@CoachJulia Alright thank you!!
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And also thank you so much I became way better and my friends think I'm cheating in some way!!
Hah! Well that's fun! I am glad I could help you improve.
@@CoachJulia it's all because of your amazing teaching :D
Are you able to skate in summer??
I am, we have a year round rink here.
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