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Title: Basic Skills Warmup Sheets
Post by: FigureSpins on December 21, 2010, 07:59:14 AM

In the Winter 2010 Basic Skills Newsletter, there was a small article on the Glenview Ice Center's warmups for their Basic Skills groups.  They were kind enough to allow the USFSA to post the warmup sheets online.

• Snowplow Sam 1-4 Warmup (http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/SnowplowSam1-4Warmup.pdf) (PDF)

• Basic 1-8 Warmup (http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/Basic1-8Warmup.pdf) (PDF)

• Free Skate 1-6 Warmup (http://www.usfigureskating.org/Content/FreeSkate1-6Warmup.pdf) (PDF)

Title: Re: Basic Skills Warmup Sheets
Post by: jjane45 on December 22, 2010, 12:03:57 AM

Thank you for sharing! I downloaded the FS1-6 sheet and got slightly confused how it's constructed. For example FS has:

Free Skate 5  (10 minutes)
Spiral sequence- both directions (FO spiral, FO 3 turn, 1 back crossover, BI spiral)
Forward outside slide chasse swing roll sequence

Is it possible that the FS5 group does these sequences continuously for 10 minutes as warm-up? Or am I reading it totally wrong? :)

Title: Re: Basic Skills Warmup Sheets
Post by: davincisop on December 22, 2010, 05:06:17 PM

This is cool!

Also I'm pretty sure my parents took me to that ice arena sometime as a child.... there and the northbrook ice arena. My grandma is close to both lol. :)

Title: Re: Basic Skills Warmup Sheets
Post by: Sierra on December 22, 2010, 05:21:46 PM

Hmm. I don't believe in using spirals as warmup- just asking for an accident- and some of it's too easy and doesn't really -warm up- the skaters. I'm about Pre-preliminary, and I warm up with simple stroking, power threes & alternating back crossovers.