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I was looking for examples of super good crossovers, and came across this video called “Stéphane Lambiel & Guillaume Cizeron improvise to choreography by Khoudia Touré”

It‘s really amazing and inspiring to see Lambiel in particular skate like that. I guess he’s really active in ice shows besides coaching, but still!

Not a great video to study crossover technique, perhaps :)

Have you come across inspirational videos for skating skills?

First of all, beginner skater here, working on basic 4-5 skills, started last November.

Today, I‘ve been watching some videos on YouTube about people’s skates, and I have some questions about the ankle.

I don’t really understand what part of the ankle the boots are supposed to support and why. The beginner Jackson boots have a very tall ankle (and I think also a tall blade? am I crazy? I think they used to have the specs on their site, but other than some dead links, I can’t find them anymore). Why is this good for beginners?

I have these skates mainly because it’s been suggested by many people, and it was easy enough to get, but one of the people I was watching says she switched to a Risport Scott Hamilton skate, which has a lower boot, a better blade, etc. I’ve never heard of that particular one, even though it seems like a better one and yet somehow reasonably priced.

Anyway, what’s the deal with the tall ankle? It seems awkwardly so.

What is the physics of it, is what I’m asking.

Today, I was practicing cross rolls for the second time ever, and it wasn’t going well until somebody’s coach played a waltz the student was practicing.

All of a sudden, I could do the cross rolls! I mean, IDK what my coach would say about them, but at least I got speed and could do underpushes. Until then, I just wasn‘t skating anywhere 😂

This experience was so weird and so obviously pointing to the right music helping the body move better, it got me thinking, it can’t just be my discovery. Yet, what I hear at the ice rinks normally is either nothing, something more background/dance (as in, club), or classic rock. I don’t dislike any of the music, but it seems it doesn’t all work the same for skating, hah.

What are your thoughts on this? I was thinking of listening to my own music, but I only have the airpods, and at least one of the rinks I go to explicitly bans these sort of headphones. A headband, like some people wear for running, might work…

My main wondering is actually about the (lacking) pedagogy of it. Why don't they play some waltzes or classical music during LTS sessions, when the whole rink is a bunch of people learning to move?

I searched for some research on this, the key word is entrainment.