USFS Moves In The Field Tips: Back Power Threes – Juvenile (Karen Heng Olson)

Karen Heng Olson explains how she teaches the Backward Power Three Turns from the Juvenile USFS Moves in the Field Test.  She breaks the pattern down into it’s primary pieces and then puts it all together once the skater can do the individual parts correctly.

Notice how Karen demonstrates the sequence.  She clearly has control of the rotation after both the back 3-turn as well as the inside mohawk.  One of the most common errors is not controlling the rotation of the turn exits.

To get the skater more comfortable with speed and power, Karen suggests adding a crossover in the sequence so it becomes crossover, 3-turn, mohawk, then repeat.

Karen also discusses how this sequence changes as the skater gets stronger and moves up in levels.  Karen says, “The turns can happen faster and with less delay.  And also with less upper body movement.”  So the skater should “push and turn and have their body rotate as they’re pushing.”

To finish the video, Karen addresses the Intermediate pattern with the same turns across the end of the rink.  She suggests teaching them initially without the side pattern by using a huge circle of crossovers to enter them and get used to the speed and the larger circular radius at the end of the rink.

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