Figure Skating Tips for Advanced Skater Part 2 – General Jump Overview (Nick Perna)

Nick Perna continues his lesson with Isabelle.  This is the second part of a 5 part series (see Part 1).  In this part of the lesson, Nick begins a general overview of Isabelle’s jumps.  When Nick has never worked with a skater before, he likes to progress from backspins, waltz jumps and loop jumps to single axels and double loops.  Notice how Nick continues his focus on landing position that he covered in Part 1 of the lesson.

Nick shares some very interesting numbers in this video and he starts this discussion with the double salchow.  He says, “This jump [double salchow], based on average length of jumps for elite level skaters, should be one and a half times your height in length.”  This is a great way to determine if a skater is really ready to start working on triples if there is no access to computer video analysis to determine actual air times.

Nick continues, “Your loop jump based on average elite skaters should be your height.”  The loop is normally the smallest jump distance-wise for a skater and the largest jump is usually the axel.  Isabelle’s double loop is about her height, making it likely that she is physically ready to attempt triple loops.

The double flip should be one and a half times the skater’s height.  As you can see by Nick’s analysis, Isabelle’s loop is probably her most “triple-able jump.”

Stay tuned for the continuation of this lesson…

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