Practice Outline

I decided to try my hand at an outline for my practice time. "Fun stuff" is just stuff I'm playing with, and "end of session" is stuff I can do even when I'm a bit tired. "Uncrowded session" is stuff that I don't feel safe doing unless the rink is pretty quiet. The sub-points are particular things to emphasize.

Warmup

• stroking
  
  • power
    
  • extension
    
  • knee bend
    
  • rhythmic & graceful
    
  • feet to neutral position between strokes
    
  • no leaning/lunging
    
• forward swizzles
  
  • knee bend
    
  • feet touching between strokes
    
  • push outgoing, pull incoming
    
• forward 1/2 swizzle pumps on a circle (CW & CCW)
  
  • weight on inside foot
    
  • head up!
    
  • back arm up, front arm down
    
  • powerful strokes
    
  • knee bend
    
  • feet together between strokes
    
• left foot glide
  
  • extension
    
  • pointed toe
    
  • knee bend
    

Main Session

• speed/stamina stroking
  
  • as much speed as I'm able/as I dare
    
  • sustained effort
    
  • other stroking points as above
    
• forward crossovers (CCW & CW)
  
  • good check position
    
  • deliberate
    
  • smooth
    
• two-foot turn (CCW & CW)
  
  • look up!
    
  • don't drop front shoulder
    
  • down-up-down
    
  • more speed
    

Uncrowded Sessions

• backward swizzles
  
  • knee bend
    
  • hands at normal position, not back
    
  • don't lean forward
    
  • feet together between strokes
    
• backward 1/2 swizzle pumps on a line or circle (L & R foot)
  
  • knee bend
    
  • weight on inside/non-swizzling foot
    
  • look up
    
  • feet together between strokes
    
• backward 1-foot glide
  
  • pick up foot for more than 2 seconds :-)
    

Fun Stuff

• T-stop
  
• lunge?
  
• forward slalom

End of Session

• left-foot snowplow stop (fwd & backwd)
  
• right foot glide
  
• push-off
  
  • look up!
    
  • don't lunge
    
  • knee bend
    
• fwd edges on a circle
  
  • good push-off
    
  • knee bend
    
  • lean
    
  • control