Hi everyone,
"T-stop" in its various different ways of writing is a pain to search for in this forum - if this question has been asked before, please feel free to give me a link! (Although I'm always happy to read new comments!)
Now, my actual question:
You should use the outside edge of the blade of the back foot to stop, correct?
I've always struggled with stopping, never learned it properly for years, and now that different people have given me their insight, I struggle a lot with using the outside edge properly.
I know that I have to unlearn bad technique because I did the t-stop wrong for a long time (purely using the inside of my blade, dragging it behind me).
In many tutorials and from what I've seen in competition videos, I can tell that you kinda lean backwards a bit and then...press(?) the outside edge into the ice, but I don't seem to be able to do this.
Do I understand something totally wrong?
After I started practising techniques and improved the muscle strength on the insides of my legs, I noticed that my stops had become more powerful, and that the weight distribution is shifting a bit, but I think I'm still mostly on the inside or maybe using a mix of both edges, but never the outside edge alone. Whenever I try to lean back or get some grip with the outside edge, I just tend to get stuck in the ice and then loose my balance, so I'm not very brave with my attempts to learn it further.
Am I too sheepish with this? Is the sweet spot for this just really hard to find or why am I 'stuttering' over the ice?
Any advice you guys have? Also, if I get something totally wrong, please tell me!
A very frustrated and unstoppable Snorlax
"T-stop" in its various different ways of writing is a pain to search for in this forum - if this question has been asked before, please feel free to give me a link! (Although I'm always happy to read new comments!)
Now, my actual question:
You should use the outside edge of the blade of the back foot to stop, correct?
I've always struggled with stopping, never learned it properly for years, and now that different people have given me their insight, I struggle a lot with using the outside edge properly.
I know that I have to unlearn bad technique because I did the t-stop wrong for a long time (purely using the inside of my blade, dragging it behind me).
In many tutorials and from what I've seen in competition videos, I can tell that you kinda lean backwards a bit and then...press(?) the outside edge into the ice, but I don't seem to be able to do this.
Do I understand something totally wrong?
After I started practising techniques and improved the muscle strength on the insides of my legs, I noticed that my stops had become more powerful, and that the weight distribution is shifting a bit, but I think I'm still mostly on the inside or maybe using a mix of both edges, but never the outside edge alone. Whenever I try to lean back or get some grip with the outside edge, I just tend to get stuck in the ice and then loose my balance, so I'm not very brave with my attempts to learn it further.
Am I too sheepish with this? Is the sweet spot for this just really hard to find or why am I 'stuttering' over the ice?
Any advice you guys have? Also, if I get something totally wrong, please tell me!
A very frustrated and unstoppable Snorlax