Went to the crowded loonie skate today. Surprisingly, I fixed my waltz jump in that session. The trick is to not think about jumping from front to back. The change of direction would be carried out automatically, there is no part in the brain or motion that force it.
Another thing is to not step from backward to forward too quickly (the start of the jump), you have to wait for your upper body to be in the right position (i waited almost 3 secs while gliding backward on a cruve). So basically, I just have to do things all very slowly. It's almost as if I'm just thinking about jumping from left leg to right leg "sideway" or diagonally. Do not think about drawing a curve trace on the ice and jumping from and landing on the same trace (which is exactly what our coach did), it tends to force the beginning and ending of the jump away from its naturally would have occured spot on the ice. That trace is usually just done with guess work, it's not done w/ physics and math that takes into account of how you move and how your weight is distributed.
2 comments:
congrats on nailing the jump.
your hard work and dedication have paid off.
Actually that might just be a temporary thing again, the next day it didn't feel as good altho it's not as bad as before.
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