Basic Skills Warmup Sheets

[FigureSpins]

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 (PDF)

• Basic 1-8 Warmup (PDF)

• Free Skate 1-6 Warmup (PDF)

[jjane45]

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?

[davincisop]

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.

[Sierra]

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.