How to do Forward Inside Mohawks On Ice, Figure Skating Tutorial
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ส.ค. 2024
- Hey Skaters! Today I am going to be going over Mohawk turns with you. This is the first of many turns you will want to learn on the ice. It really helps to have some good hip turnout, so be sure to stretch before this one!
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Two great tips for me here: check shoulders first, step in FRONT! I have a mortal terror of falling backwards 😂
😆 falling backwards is pretty terrifying. Glad you got some good tips from this.
One of my first times skating I got on right after the zamboni and tried to work on my waltz jumps and i cant remember what happened but I ended up falling backwards and hitting my head really hard.
I got up, laughed, and kept on skating.
dont put yourself at risk but dont be afraid to take a fall and get right back up and try again :)
Years ago I fell backwards and hit my head so hard that my glasses flew off while attempting a mohawk. I must have stepped in back! All these years I wondered what I did wrong. Definitely two great tips!
Jenny S you should wear a helmet!
@@Emeand33 I'm good now, this was back when I started, 6 years ago.
This is better explained than it was explained from my trainer in the figure skating lesson. Your tips are very helpful. Greetings from germany! :)
Oh thank you, I appreciate the positive feedback! I hope to visit your country one day!
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'm learning by myself and I've been having a lot of trouble doing Mohawks. So thank you for this video.
You are welcome! I hope this makes it easier to achieve this move for you.
The best channel with figure skating lessons!
Can’t wait to try this
With love from Russia♥️
Thank you so much for the positive feedback! Hello to you in Russia!
Hi, I'm from Russia too and I like figure skating, you know, there isn't video in russian with such detailed explanation. Thank you for your lessons, I think you are the best figure skating coach on youtube :)
Oh, I appreciate that so much! I am glad you have found my videos helpful!
I just found your channel and am very impressed at the detail, quality, and general helpfulness of your teaching! I recently wanted to begin an intermediate class but was told by the instructor that I'd have to be at an ISI 'beta level'. I had no idea what that was, but after checking I am finding that your videos so far seem to be teaching everything I need to know. Thanks again! :-)
You are welcome! Beta is the third level, with backward stroking, backward crossovers and T stops. After that you learn 3 turns (tutorial coming soon) , Bunny hops, Lunges, Mohawks, and Forward edges, all of which I have tutorials for. So once you have Beta down, you can start learning Gamma and Delta levels here as well! 😁
Thank you so much for this video! Unfortunately my Beta level instructor was not good at breaking down and explaining how to do mohawks, so learning how to do them has been a very frustrating struggle. This video gave me several "Aha!" moments. I look forward to getting back on the ice and trying again.
This tutorial just changed my whole attitude about mohawks. I though i was scared of these because I dont know backward glides very well yet. Turns out it was my foot placement. Thanks for explaining that you step through 3rd position. Now i cant wait for practice tonight to try these again!
I just go ahead and like these videos before the commercial at the beginning ends bc I already know coach Julia is gonna bring it with the quality.
Oh my gosh, thank you!
I’ve been attempting mohawks for almost a month and I still have so much trouble continuing the traveling motion once i switch feet. It’s really frustrating, so I’m hoping the tips from this video will be helpful 😌
Hi Marissa, I'm experiencing exactly the same problem and stop gliding as soon as I switch feet. If you've found your way through this since your comment, I'd love to know how.
Julia thank you so very much for your spectacular videos!!!!! 🎉 🤩😍I’m new the ice skating, only into my 10th week now and I am 42 years-old. I am taking lessons but now my teacher is away for 5 weeks so I will be watching a lot of you!!! And will try to impress her doing a Mohawk to show her when she returns! Thank you so so much ❤
Thank you for another video, you’re a great coach, everything is so clear and well explained, really gotta practise these moves now, so scared of going backwards ☺️💙⛸
You can do it!!! Skating takes Practice and Patience, so don’t give up on yourself.
Oh man, I can't wait to try this out. Thanks Coach Julia! :)
You're so welcome!
I've been struggling with these for awhile, but the way you show them makes it look so simple- maybe I'm making it too hard! Can't wait to try them again later this week :)
Hey there! I am just now seeing this comment. I hope you were able to get this move a little more smooth for yourself!
That awkward moment when you remember how to do this stuff but you never know what video you're clicking on because you can't remember any names for the life of you.
😄 the names of all the different turns used to stump me too.
Can you please do a video about tango stops?
Thanks Coach Julia!
you are welcome!
Not wrong to step behind for the mohawk, it’s just a different variation; it makes it a closed mohawk (ClMO), which is used more in ice dance
Once again... Great instruction!
Thank you Martie!! It’s good to have a loyal supporter. 😁
Thank you for your videos. Especially, how you break it down in pieces and pointing out what not to do, like stepping behind the other foot. I fell once backwards while doing a mohawk, and sprained my wrist. I am pretty sure, I stepped behind the other foot. Needless to say, since then I am wearing wrist guards, better safe than sorry.
Looks so easy but is not so easy especially when skating fast. Very well explained, thank you!
Thank you so much for this video! I struggle with Mohawks so much, and no matter how much someone shows me or explains it I can't get it. The tip for looking back and some of the other tips in this video will hopefully help me get this!
Good luck! I hope the tips help you!
thank you so much! I have some trouble to do the mohawks but your explanation of how to do it helps!! thank you.
Glad you found it helpful!
Thank you 🙏 Now I know how to do the mohawk
Okay, this makes waaaaay more sense! I was trying this in my Saturday lesson and it made zero sense! Will try again this weekend :D
Ahh! I am so glad I could explain it in a way that makes sense for you!
Your videos are extremely helpful while I learn on my own!
Happy to hear that!
Ok those skates are really pretty!
Thank you!! I love them. They are a custom made Harlick skating boot with and MK Gold Star Revolution blade.
I love your videos. I'm an inline skater, but I use these videos to learn new moves. Not sure if others do the same though.
Glad you like them!
I take sooooo many tips from your tutorials for my roller skating! Thank you so much!
I am so glad to hear it!
Thank you for teaching me because I always end up doing a jump in the middle
Thank you so much, coach Julia, for your very useful and so well explained tutorials. Love them, they help me a lot. :)
Glad you like them!
It has been almost 2 years and I still can't consistently do a mohawk.
After watching my friend do one and fall backwards and hit his head I'm terrified of them. He did it correctly too (i.e. stepping forward not backward, checking, etc)
Oh no, fear will definitely hold you back. Maybe practice it with a helmet on until you get more confident.
coach julia, i love you!!!!!!!!!! i hope to be a good coach as you in the future.
Awe, that is so sweet of you!
Danke!
Thank you!! I appreciate it so much!
Nice, nice and good advice :) Now I know how to improve my practice. This was an open Mohawk, right?
Yes, this would be considered an open Mohawk.
I noticed that in ice dance, the mohawk step is expected to step in the middle of the blade of the other foot. Is that just another minor difference between ice dance and figure skating? Thank you for your videos, they are always very helpful.😊
Thank You so much for making this difficult move so easy! 😊
Kate Smith Hey! So glad to know I could help!
hi coach julia can you explain when we need to keep looking where we are going for turns, vs turning our heads the other way when we check? I saw some people saying one should stay looking towards where we are skating, but I dont know if that always applies
So well explained! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
My daughter is in level 8 and she is learning this
Hi Coach! Help please..
When i allow my foot to land heel first, i lose balance. How can I make this better?
And do I need to bend my knees more when i am about to switch to the other foot?
Thank you!
Bending your knees when switching feet is a good idea as you are learning and gaining flexibility and mobility. Try stepping more on the arch, instead of the heel and see if that helps.
@@CoachJulia thank you so much. Will try it out.
I'll be practicing this tomorrow, thank you for the tutorial!
I really need to learn to do some turns haha, I've only been taught a 2 foot turn in my group lessons and I don't really think they're used much beyond when you're just learning to go backwards right? I can't do them if I'm going faster than barely moving and when I do them I always stop unless I go straight into a swizzle :^) Hope to see a 3 turn tutorial when you're back on the ice
That three turn tutorial is on my list to do right away when I get back in skates, 😁
Practice gliding after the two foot 180 degree turn. Skate forward, do the turn, glide backwards three seconds, then two foot turn back forwards and glide three seconds again. Count the seconds. That will encourage you to learn how to do the two foot turn without killing your momentum. Do 30 two foot turns every practice session and you will get better. If you can skate forward, turn, glide backwards for three seconds, turn again, and glide forwards for three seconds, that is pretty good maintaining of momentum and you will get better from there. I learned the two foot turn by starting with a T stop. Glide forward with your left foot straight and with all your weight on your left foot, then turn your right foot toes out and behind your left foot and scrape the outside toe edge of the right foot on the ice. If you are good at that, use that position to lead you into the two foot turn. That was the key for me. After I did that I worked on keeping the feet close together during the turn. I think the key is that 1: Your left foot needs to lead your right, that is, it needs to be further ahead than your right. 2: Your right (trailing) foot needs to scrape on the outside toe edge. That is the main key and if you are in a T stop position that's exactly what you are doing, scraping the outside edge of that right foot, which puts you in a good position to do the turn and scrape the outside edge of that trailing (right) foot. If you hit the inside edge of that trailing foot you get all sorts of havoc...I think that's the main key. Also, of course, when you are moving forward and you want to two foot turn to backwards you put your weight on the balls of your feet and lift the heel of the blades. When you are moving backwards and want to two foot turn to forwards, you put the weight on the heels of the blades and left the toes. I love doing that.
Such a fun channel! wow!!
Thanks!
@@CoachJulia looking forward to seeing more! i have a similar channel but to do with dance :D would love your thoughts x
Your videos are so helpful!!
Glad you think so!
Thank you! Good lesson.
Glad you liked it!
Hi Coach Julia, I am a better skater because of you! Thank you so much. Please, when you get a chance to do the other Mohawks? Also would love to learn how to twizzle down the ice like Gabriella and Guillaume! xoxox Waiting on every new video, Love Love, Love them all! :)
Oops I was under my husbands account so that's why you see him...he doesn't figure skate at all lol
I am so glad to know you are enjoying my videos! People have been loving the footwork tutorials so much that I am definitely going to have to record more. 😁
I tried mohawk yesterday first time on ice ( did prep exercises off ice ). It was a disaster 😂😂😂😂 i checked, opened my leg, but ended going forward the other way around 😂😮😅 so i need to be able to generate movement to go backwards but dont know how!
I'm in basic 6 and i m sooo close to feestyle! But my teacher is in high school and is a really good skater but not a really good teacher...😂
Clara Terry Awe, well I am sure she is trying her best 😄 Some of the best skaters aren’t necessarily good at breaking down the moves for instruction.
@@CoachJulia I really like her!💖
Clara Terry That’s awesome! It’s so good to have an instructor you connect with. Hopefully as she gains experience her teaching skills become more refined. My teaching has certainly improved a lot since I began 15 years ago.
So good! Thanks
Glad you like it!
Hi, thank you for your super helpful videos! I am wondering how best to approach a Mohawk at speed? I can do them perfectly fine from stand still but struggle to incorporate them smoothly while skating with some speed (not sure how to manage well fwd cross-Mohawk-back cross)
I usually start having my students skate in a circle, they take three steps, step to inside of circle, step to outside of circle, step to inside if circle, on the fourth step the do their Mohawk facing the circle. Make sure you are really properly checking your shoulders just before you Mohawk, as the check is extremely important, especially at speed.
Thanks
Welcome
You make this look so easy! Meanwhile...I can't do my mohawk without a hand on the wall.
I’m really struggling with the mohawk. I had hip surgery last spring and I’m really nervous about turning my hips out. The mohawk and the 3 turns are the ones that are making me repeat basic 6 for like the 4th or 5th time. Is there any advice you could give me to be able at least pass these elements and moving up to pre free skate?
Thank you so much! ♥️❤️💕😊
You are welcome!
I need some tips on how to do the Mohawk while skating fast! I am terrified of falling because I’m not confident on being able to step right!
Crawl before you can climb meaning practice practice at a slower pace then you'll be fine I'd imagine.
I know I’m really late but whenever I switch feet I always stop and I never continue moving
Hello☺️ Thank you for a great lesson😊
I'm practicing mohawk turn.
After the turn, I can't trace the same circle and go inside of the circle💦
Could you give me some advice?
Probably you are leaning your body weight to far inside of the circle, instead of keeping your weight up on top of the circle.
@@CoachJulia thank you for your comment!
Thank you, super :-)!
You are welcome!
i have a problem of opening my hips and being able to turn :(
Im still struggling with mohawks...
Can you also do an outside Mohawk tutorial?
Thanks for the suggestion!
When I try mohawks I make a scratch noise on the ice. Do you know how to prevent the scratchy noise?
I would guess that it might be your toe picks scratching the ice? That is usually why people make scratching sounds in Mohawks. really try and keep your weight more evenly centered on you feet and not up at your toes.
After i do the third position i loose all my speed and i just stay still what should i do to stop that?
It is hard to say, without being able to see you skate. It could be a number of things. Perhaps you are getting to much toe pick in the Ice? If you would like me to review a video of you doing a mohawk and give you some suggestions, check out my page at ...skatingcoachjulia.simplybook.me/v2/#book
And choose the " Skating Skills Critique" option.
@@CoachJulia thats so cool that you do like a critique instead of full class! My last day to skate was Monday because my rink got shut down again and i didnt record a video😔maybe another time thank you!
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Arrrgh. Mohawks are my nemesis. I detest them. Don’t really know why either.
Awe, bummer. somethings just are tougher for some than for others. everyone has their thing they struggle with. I used to whip my 3 turns pretty bad. Just keep trying and be patient with yourself.