Ice skating
Coaching the coaches
Yesterday at the ice rink was really cool. I had an entire night of coaching advanced skaters.
The eyes have it
In ice skating, it's almost always the tiniest things that make the biggest difference in a move. Just the slightest lean, the tiniest change in position of the knees or the shoulders, or the placement of hands can change everything. When it comes to the subtleties of body positioning on the ice, the eyes are the first key to everything. Even from the very first day that a new skater is on the ice I start telling them the first of all my coacherly mantras: "Where ever your eyes are looking, that's where you are going."
