Hi!
I am new here, I just found this forum while looking for information and clues that help me to find out the origin of my struggling with my left outside edges. But first things first, a little background of myself! (I apologize for the long post and my english in advance, but better to give more information than less! )
I'm an adult skater in my late twenties and I have been skating for roughly 3 years now, but with some gaps in between and a lot of coaches/group lessons/schedules changes due to moving 3 times to different countries (and even continents ) during this time. The latest 'official' level reference I have is passing the UK NISA basic skills levels. The current group lessons are more figure skating oriented and working on my single jumps: waltz jump and salchow are kind of fine still with few details to polish, now learning toe and loop. I also started with 1 foot spins, and here is where my nightmare and search began...
I have been crazy for months trying to understand why I keep failing at spins and among other suspects, my left outside edge for the entry is definitely a stopper here. I can't hold it and end up falling into and inside edge and doing a weird kind of rushed 3 turn trying to start the spin (but obviously breaking all kind of momentum) instead of doing a nice deep and smooth 'spiral shape' outside edge till reach the center and then start spinning (does this make any sense?).
I started noticing this problem the last year, when I joined the ice dance club and realized how hard was for me to hold that outside edge, which I was almost slipping of, and the coach suggested sharpenning my blades as a first step. It slightly helped with the slip problem, but that was all. Then we concluded it must be my technique and that it will improve with practice. But it has't and I've started thinking there may be something else, (but I am obviously not sure). I have no issues holding the right outside edges at all, and I don´t remember feeling it harder earlier when I started skating where I was using a different pair of skates (but it´s been a while and not an easy comparison due to the level difference). The coach here has no real clue and the closest skate shop is 9h drive, main reasons I decided to give the forum a try desperately looking for advice
So my question here is there anything else you can think of I can try or check to find out if it is me or my skates/blade? Is it possible the left blade edges are unbalanced, or one shorter than the other that cause this issue, or something like that?
I will probably change the blades anyway, especially after reading this forum as I realized they may not suit my current level (I have Risport RF Light with Mark IV blades), but I would like to try to understand if I am the problem, the skates are, or we both are first
Thanks a lot in advance!
I am new here, I just found this forum while looking for information and clues that help me to find out the origin of my struggling with my left outside edges. But first things first, a little background of myself! (I apologize for the long post and my english in advance, but better to give more information than less! )
I'm an adult skater in my late twenties and I have been skating for roughly 3 years now, but with some gaps in between and a lot of coaches/group lessons/schedules changes due to moving 3 times to different countries (and even continents ) during this time. The latest 'official' level reference I have is passing the UK NISA basic skills levels. The current group lessons are more figure skating oriented and working on my single jumps: waltz jump and salchow are kind of fine still with few details to polish, now learning toe and loop. I also started with 1 foot spins, and here is where my nightmare and search began...
I have been crazy for months trying to understand why I keep failing at spins and among other suspects, my left outside edge for the entry is definitely a stopper here. I can't hold it and end up falling into and inside edge and doing a weird kind of rushed 3 turn trying to start the spin (but obviously breaking all kind of momentum) instead of doing a nice deep and smooth 'spiral shape' outside edge till reach the center and then start spinning (does this make any sense?).
I started noticing this problem the last year, when I joined the ice dance club and realized how hard was for me to hold that outside edge, which I was almost slipping of, and the coach suggested sharpenning my blades as a first step. It slightly helped with the slip problem, but that was all. Then we concluded it must be my technique and that it will improve with practice. But it has't and I've started thinking there may be something else, (but I am obviously not sure). I have no issues holding the right outside edges at all, and I don´t remember feeling it harder earlier when I started skating where I was using a different pair of skates (but it´s been a while and not an easy comparison due to the level difference). The coach here has no real clue and the closest skate shop is 9h drive, main reasons I decided to give the forum a try desperately looking for advice
So my question here is there anything else you can think of I can try or check to find out if it is me or my skates/blade? Is it possible the left blade edges are unbalanced, or one shorter than the other that cause this issue, or something like that?
I will probably change the blades anyway, especially after reading this forum as I realized they may not suit my current level (I have Risport RF Light with Mark IV blades), but I would like to try to understand if I am the problem, the skates are, or we both are first
Thanks a lot in advance!