Olympic Figure Skating Coaching Tips: Helicopter Exercise (Michelle Leigh)

Olympic coach Michelle Leigh explains a valuable warm-up drill that incorporates the helicopter exercise and walleys.  You can review Michelle’s presentations of the helicopter exercise and the walleyrespectively.

Michelle discusses what to look for in the exercise and she explains why the exercise is important.  Top coaches are constantly coming up with drills, exercises and sequences to help their skaters develop proper muscle memory that translates into the elements they are working on.  By incorporating these exercises into a skater’s warm-up, the skaters develops proper muscle memory from sheer repetition of doing the warm-up every day.

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