What surface and what shoes do you wear for off-ice jumping practice?
I am about to start on my axel, done as a kid and young woman decades ago. Coach says I'm pretty close to getting my axel, but I two foot it and cheat it a little. I am considering trying off-ice training, especially when I am at home. But, my house isn't safe, as I could fall on things. I am thinking of doing it outside, in my backyard. It doesn't snow here, so I will have good weather. I will be on grass, so I am thinking my tennis shoes would be good.
Another option is to do it at the rink, but I am hesitant to do it there. The reason is that one girl recently broke her ankle doing it there. She was on the rink rubber mats and wearing her tennis shoes. She landed, her upper body kept rotating, her foot stopped, and the ankle (no boot) kept turning.
Ice behaves differently then the ground. In a jump landing, you momentum, hopefully, is to do an outside edge landing to take away the landing force. And, those big skates provide alot of ankle support.
Dancers do turns and twisting jumps, but in slippery ballet/jazz shoes and on varnished floors. In Zoomba class, I wore real dance sneakers. The ball of the foot is in a circle pattern, allowing me to turn my legs without my knee lagging. I bought them after my knee started hurting a few weeks into Zoomba. Gymnasts do turns and twisting jumps, barefoot but on that cushy carpet floor. All of these allow the legs and foot to stay more aligned.