I skate almost every day and spend almost all my time practicing figures. I first saw the WFS Beacom Blossom video early on, as I was still working for my WFS pewter exam. I was so entranced by the magic of gaining speed seemingly out of nowhere. After thinking about it a lot and experimenting in a dance studio I understood how you can push against the ice on one foot in so many places, and began practicing those pushes as appropriate in my figures. Speed and control. Thank you so much for making this explanation video for a figure I deeply admire and aspire to. I hope it's ok with you to have it linked from the WFS website, on the Beacom Blossom page. The squiggly back and forth... I practiced (and competed) that in the quad cupcake figure, I think about keeping my shoulders parallel with the boards as my hips rotate under them, and also about making nice circles with nice centers. I am not yet able to do it backwards, still working on getting good pull motion in reverse, pulling through my core. I really like the idea of loop size paragraph eights, I will begin practicing them. The three turns, I'm practicing on the twin 3 figure. Brackets... haven't started learning them yet.
Thank you very much for expressing your appreciation for this video, Elizabeth, and yes, it is of course fine to link to it on the WFS site. All the best with your progress!
You're still just amazing. Today I learned about your outstanding abilities from Roman Kostomarov, went on RUclips and watched a lot of your videos. I'm thrilled. The craziest choreography I've ever seen in my life. You are a real example of athletic longevity. I wish you success in the new year!
Thank you for your compliments, and welcome to the channel! I just recently learned of the tragedy that has befallen Roman, and do wish him all the best with his new challenges in life.
Wow, I've said it before Garry but wow that is the best video yet by a huge margin, I'm sharing this with my freestyle friends, every up and coming skater NEEDS to see this. Perfect, thank you
@ indeed you did. The smaller continuous 8 is much harder. I can only get one and a half times around it. But it did help me with the regular paragraph 8.
I skate almost every day and spend almost all my time practicing figures. I first saw the WFS Beacom Blossom video early on, as I was still working for my WFS pewter exam. I was so entranced by the magic of gaining speed seemingly out of nowhere. After thinking about it a lot and experimenting in a dance studio I understood how you can push against the ice on one foot in so many places, and began practicing those pushes as appropriate in my figures. Speed and control. Thank you so much for making this explanation video for a figure I deeply admire and aspire to. I hope it's ok with you to have it linked from the WFS website, on the Beacom Blossom page.
The squiggly back and forth... I practiced (and competed) that in the quad cupcake figure, I think about keeping my shoulders parallel with the boards as my hips rotate under them, and also about making nice circles with nice centers. I am not yet able to do it backwards, still working on getting good pull motion in reverse, pulling through my core. I really like the idea of loop size paragraph eights, I will begin practicing them. The three turns, I'm practicing on the twin 3 figure. Brackets... haven't started learning them yet.
Thank you very much for expressing your appreciation for this video, Elizabeth, and yes, it is of course fine to link to it on the WFS site. All the best with your progress!
You're still just amazing. Today I learned about your outstanding abilities from Roman Kostomarov, went on RUclips and watched a lot of your videos. I'm thrilled. The craziest choreography I've ever seen in my life. You are a real example of athletic longevity. I wish you success in the new year!
Thank you for your compliments, and welcome to the channel! I just recently learned of the tragedy that has befallen Roman, and do wish him all the best with his new challenges in life.
Thanks, Gary, it's done👌@@GaryBeacom-FigureSkater
Wow, I've said it before Garry but wow that is the best video yet by a huge margin, I'm sharing this with my freestyle friends, every up and coming skater NEEDS to see this. Perfect, thank you
Thanks for the kudos, Paul. The best is yet to come!
I’m working on the paragraph 8 so I will try this smaller paragraph 8 and see how it goes.
Be tenacious, John. I made it look easy because of my hundreds of hours of figures practice.
@ indeed you did. The smaller continuous 8 is much harder. I can only get one and a half times around it. But it did help me with the regular paragraph 8.