It is definitely helpful to use the tor pick when you’re learning this move. Once it becomes easier for you, the toe pick is used less and less until it’s really done on the rocker. But for a beginner skater, that toe pick is very helpful for creating a pivot point that they can rotate around.
You are one of very few ice skating coaches who explain every move in detail. You break down each move into smaller parts and show it several times. It helps a lot. Especially to a greenhorn like me. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US. 😙
Julia, you are the best teacher ever! Not only demonstrate but teach step by step how to complete that. Majority teacher primarily show how to do that but not in detail for beginners. You shoulder be an instructor in other fields too! Thanks!
You’re so awesome! I’ve requested for a coach but nobody got back to me (in Melbourne). You’re all I’ve got ❤️ thanks so much for doing these videos! You’re fulfilling many girls’ childhood dreams, including mine. ❤️
every time i want to learn a skill, i look at your video for the skill. every time without fail i'm doing the skill within a week. thank you so much for making these videos!!!
This has helped me so much! When the coach demonstrates during my lesson, it goes so fast that I don't catch all of the details. I love the way you break it down and then repeat it from different angles. You are just great. Thanks very much. :)
Oh my gosh, you totally just solved a problem I was having with my right side three turns. In your video toward the end you mention how the free leg moves slowly past the skating foot as you turn. I went back and watched my skating practice video and could see on the right side turns I was either delaying my free leg movement or prematurely tried to snap it around causing my hip to drop in and falling off my edge. I could see on my left turns though I was moving my free leg gradually like you explained and that is why they always came out properly. I cannot thank you enough, that one small detail has solved a big problem for me. ❤❤❤❤❤
I totally love these videos! I just started taking skating lessons (at 35 years old… I meant to just learn some basics to make sure I was confident on skates and could stop properly, but I somehow got to a level where I am doing two foot spins, and 3-turns! And I’m loving it!). I just did my first outside three turns today but this video definitely gives me a better idea of how to improve! Thank you!
I'm often a little wobbly coming out of the 1 legged 3 turn. Thanks for the advice on staying low and extending. I think I'm not getting low enough on my supporting leg and I may be swing my free leg too much. I will try your advice and hopefully that fixes these issues. I'm finally able to do the 2 legged 3 turns consistently! Thanks for your great instructions! :)
Thank youu again for the awesome, detailed explination. It really helps me to pinpoint the things im supposed to focus on when doing this turn. And also, the music you use when showing off the moves is always such a vibe!! 😌
Worked on this for 3 sessions, and your explanation about the hand positions was finally what helped me get this! Thanks! Can't wait for your tutorial on the forward inside 3 turns!
After struggling for two years I finally made it properly and nicely. It was all about just to lift the heel at the moment of turn. My problem has gone!!! Julia thank you so much for your amazing explanation! Love all you videos.
I would love to see a tutorial from you about backwards 3 turns! I've been struggling to figure out how they work and you always explain things so well 😄
Outstanding explanation! Extra helpful when you added the bit about the free leg leading. That’s been my problem. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to getting back on the ice to try this!! Thank you so much for sharing. Very insightful!
Absolutely love the way you explained it. I was getting onto my rocker but just before my toe picks. Felt it slip underneath me. Took your advise on rocking on to my toe picks at the apex. Nailed it. ✌️🙏
Aaaa! Thanks to you I know how to do forward slaloms 🥰 I want to learn figure skating, but I plan to learn the skills and then take classes to fine tune and improve my technique :D
How I wished this video was here when I was trying to learn this move, very nicely demonstrated and explained -as always. 😅 can't wait for inside edge 3turn (omg this one is so hard) and hopefully backwards. Thanks for the video!
7:41 As you approach the apex of the turn your free leg swings around your skating leg, basically driving the entire motion, such that after the turn your free leg is already in its final position. That's an important but subtle detail that I hadn't noticed before while watching many 3 turn tutorials.
Julia..I haven't skates in years and am an intermediate freestyle skater. I can't wait to skate again and need to review many moves. You are they greatest coach ever! Thanks so much for your videos.
So well explained! I wonder why my coaches and judging from the comments, many more coaches don’t talk about using the toepick. It’s so essential for so many basic skills?? Like the bunny hop, or the waltz jump, and this! I was going crazy because I didn’t get how people do these turns, and of course it’s the toepick! It’s always the toepick! Thanks for letting us in on this secret 😂
Because they aren't great at explaining things in English and a lot of talk on the ice may be wasted breath and seems like wasting ice time and they think showing how is better than explaining how, but it's not. However for this 3 turn the toe pick is not as important as you are thinking. Using the toe pick is helpful for beginners but if you're good you don't need the toe pick at all. I do my 3 turns just fine in hockey skates and I hate hate hate hate those suicidal toe picks on my figure skates.
Great video Julia! Although for some reason, even though I’m right-handed, I find doing all the moves to the right the easiest! Aced the right 3 turn but still struggling with the left side! Will try your tips!
Once again thank you for these videos. They're a very helpful addition to what my own instructors are telling me (and a good refresher of all the stuff I can't keep in my head between one class and the next). I'd just like to say that today was a breakthrough for me. I'd been working the forward outside three turn using the curve from the hockey goal markings as a guide and making good progress. Today, however, I used one in my "regular" skating. I was skating, in the turnaround at the end of the rink (forward crossovers), I thought to try the three turn here, at speed. I did it. I finished the turn around with backward crossovers, then backward stroking to the other end of the rink, more backward crossovers about halfway around, step to forward inside edge, and continue around the rink skating forward. This was a big breakthrough for me and you helped me get there. So thank you once again.
I'm an adult figure skater just getting back into it after a few years. I love the way you break down all the moves! With three turns, my biggest issue is that I turn immediately after I push off. I don't glide & then turn. I'm trying to fix this. Hoping to work with a coach at my rink soon.
thank you for the video... it's very helpful! It's so detailed... I've been trying to do the turn on my rocker only and it has been very awful. Will try using a toepick a bit next time!
Agree with all of you, your video's and explorations are amazing and supper helpful. If you could cover the backward 3 turns in one of your future video's that'd be awesome. 🙂
Hi Ms. Julia, I am a rather new beginner roller skater and have been trying the three turn for months but have not been able to do it smoothly or comfortably. I watched your video and realized a building block that I was missing, well a few of them actually. The main one was to learn the two foot turn first. As this applies to ice skating I am sure the same applies to roller skates. I am excited to work on this and see if I have more confidence trying a three turn. I see many people trying to do three turns in roller skating and its not smooth...very sloppy and jumpy. I don't want that. Thanks for the video !
Julia, I'm so glad I found your channel. I only realized now I've been doing this the wrong way (left arm front and right arm back with my body facing away from the circle) for YEARS! My coach never corrected me. I always wondered why when I did it, it was uneasy and seemed forced. Thank you for being the light in my life!
Don't be so sure about that. Other videos teach you to do the outside three turn in the way you have decided is wrong. If you do outside 3 turn with same arm forward (e.g. left foot fwd and left arm), that is what you are saying is the wrong way, then you are not hugging the circle at that point, but as you glide towards the apex of your circle you twist your torso such that by the time you get to the apex your opposite arm is front and you are hugging the circle at that point. Many 3 turn videos make a major point of that torso twist, so it may not be as wrong as you have decided.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now. The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here. Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html A young coach Lloyd at 0:50: th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02 th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
I was so happy to see that my favourite figure skating channel had finally done a video on this! Thank you so much, you always explain things so well and this has helped me a lot to understand how three-turns work! Could you please explain to me what checking is, though?
Checking means "stopping rotation at the exact correct point." It's difficult to understand and explain. In this case you use your arms to hug the circle and when you flip your hips around you hold your arms steady on the circle and that gives you a measure by which you can feel when to stop rotating your hips.
And a follow up question... In the jump videos such as the Salchow or Flip, you talk about long flat three turns. Do you have any tips for "straightening out" three turns? I'm having trouble with that part...Maybe this could be the next video? hehe Anyways, always love your videos and am so thankful for them.
I’m working on these now. My coach wants me to hold my foot by my ankle. I find this really difficult. I might try with my leg extended like this next week! Learning skating at 31 is challenging, but oh so fun!
mine does too and i always wrap my ankle around my other foot without realising it. it makes my feet get tangled and a lot harder to do 3 turns. there are about 10 people in my class so the coach never helps me to much.
Your videos are so helpful, they actually make me feel like I can do it! The only problem is that I can only go ice skating in winter...does it help if I practice the elements off ice?
Yay...the 3 turns are the last thing I need to learn to start my waltz 8s. Once I have my waltz 8s I can take the adult pre-bronze MITF and then the free skate test, AND THEN I can FINALLY actually start competing. That is so exciting!
@@CoachJulia 😆 its so funny you say that. This is my humbling skill. The first skill that is not coming easy to me. I have to work for these. But I really appreciate your feedback and support. Is there a way to send you video or tag you in one? I'd love to share over-all skating progress with you occasionally. God bless your amazing heart!
@@CoachJulia also, I just discovered how to find ALL of the videos on your channel! Like "how to apply flat back crystals..." Im so so grateful for this wealth of knowledge available to everyone! I am officially inspired to start "my adult figure skating journey" channel now in hopes that other 30 and 40 and 50 and up year-olds see that its NEVER too late to learn this beautiful and expressive art! May God always shine His glorious face on you for this incredible blessing you have brought us. ♥😁🕊 ⛸⛸⛸⛸⛸!
Per coach Julia, it can be done either way. Many videos teach it the way you are thinking is wrong so it's not as wrong as you are thinking. One way or the other may be more natural for you.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now. The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here. Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html A young coach Lloyd at 0:50: th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02 th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
Dear Coah Julia, I would like to ask you for advice to improve my 3-turns. I manage to do left forward outside one quite consistently, and right forward inside one is starting to work. But I cannot say same for right forward and left inside ones. I have led to the conclussion that I can control more or less control my body and edges when I turn counterclockwise, but not when I try to turn clockwise. Can you recommend me any exercise either on ice or off-ice to work on so I can get through this difficulty. Thank you so much, and sorry for my bad English.
Usually Toe-Heel is taught for Brackets. The Three turn is usually done with an extended leg. With an extended leg you can better check out of the turn.
When I do the 2 foot turn, I end up with a full rotation and a closing circle =) How do i avoid closing the circle without hitting breaks?! cause i will just stop right there! After re-watching the video A LOT and trying to locate my issue, I think it's not using the rocker & pick .. now my feet are itching to try this on the ice haha
Hi Coach Julia, I'm a skate host, and I tell EVERY skater who comes to rink to watch your video's! (I need your business card to hand out lol). You are our favourite coach! One question... I have trouble with being stable at the ending, and love your comment about leg extension and being low at the end. That helped for sure!! What i'm not quite sure on head position at end, and it's a little hard to work out in video. (In videio i'm not sure if you are looking a particular way to engage with camera, or that is part of the turn). Eg: If I do a forward left outside 3 turn - as I finish... should my head be looking towards the direction of travel (ie towards my right arm/shoulder), or should I be looking more at my left arm/shoulder - ie where I have just come from?) (I'm sure in years to come i'll be able to do either, but for now everything I can do to help preventing wobbles!) Thanks for your amazing teaching and detail!!!
Thanks so much for recommending my channel! I really appreciate it. Email me your mailing address at (skatingcoachjulia @ yahoo.com) and I will send you a little something. As to your question, When you are done with the three turn, your head should be facing your gliding foot. So away from the direction of travel.
Thank you coach julia. One question, my coach explains the arms differently. Like, when I do a forward outside edge 3 turn with my left leg in the front, she says my left hand should be in front of my right shoulder, making me look towards the outside of the circle. So, I guess my question is: is there another kind of 3 turn like I am doing with my coach?
Your coach is just teaching the arms differently. It is possible to do the arms that way, it is just not as controlled of a position. I never want to over-ride an in person coach though, so always follow your own personal coaches instructions.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now. The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here. Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html A young coach Lloyd at 0:50: th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02 th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
My biggest issue with two-foot turns is that once I’m backwards, I lose my momentum and stop moving. I have to do a micro-backwards swizzle to get moving again. What can I do to maintain my momentum once I’ve turned?
Practice. Get moving, do a two foot half turn and glide for a three count, no pump. Then turn back forwards and glide for a three count, all with no pump at all. Work on that and you will learn to maintain momentum.
So, it means that when you do the turn, you’re supposed to put your weight more on the front of the foot like you’re lifting your heel and the « back » part of your blade is supposed to lift off the ice?
Yes, lifting the heel is the #1 most crucial element. If the back for your blade scrapes while you're trying to turn, forget it. When you lift the heel the turn happens as if by magic.
@@CoachJulia i am feeling so stupid! i originally thought i was using the wrong foot when i watched three turn tutorials, but until now, i just found out theres inside and outside three turns. thankfully, my stupidity made me learn both of them
It may feel more natural to some people, but you are overstating it. I do mine not facing the circle and I think they probably locked in for me within the expected time frame of practice. I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now. The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here. Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html A young coach Lloyd at 0:50: th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02 th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
It means to stop the rotation of your foot and hips at the exact correct time. "Check" means "stop at a specific place." You use your arms to hug the circle and then use that as a guide to feel where to stop the rotation of your foot and hips. It's hard to understand and hard to explain. It's not really as important as coaches make it sound. It's more "helpful" than it is "important," but I have found that by concentrating on that check my 3 turn happens more smoothly. Once you're good you won't even think about it.
Perhaps you can send me a video through my booking website, i can see what you are doing and let you know how it can be fixed. There is a link to my booking website in the description of this video.
My teacher teaches a big class and I understand that but she just tells us what to do and then tells us to do it and she also doesn’t explain things very well causing most of her students to repeat lessons
I also get disappointed by coaches but in their defense, a lot of talk to ten people that can't hear in a noisy rink may just be wasted breath, not to mention blown vocal cords.
hey, does anyone here think it would be disrespectful or rude of me to draw on the ice? i try to teach myself figure skating and i go during community skate times. to i have the privilege to draw the guide on the ice? what do y’all think?
@@CoachJulia got it; thank you! i was wondering more about what i saw as not checking the motion of the turn,, but i see now that of course you are but just in a different way, i.e.. with the extended free leg after the turn? (thinking of the turn more as piece of footwork or an eventual jump entrance rather than a single discreet element that “stops” after you complete it.)
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aren’t you not supposed to use your toepicks for 3 turns?🤔
It is definitely helpful to use the tor pick when you’re learning this move. Once it becomes easier for you, the toe pick is used less and less until it’s really done on the rocker. But for a beginner skater, that toe pick is very helpful for creating a pivot point that they can rotate around.
You are one of very few ice skating coaches who explain every move in detail. You break down each move into smaller parts and show it several times. It helps a lot. Especially to a greenhorn like me. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US. 😙
Kate Smith You are welcome, and thank you for the positive feedback. I am glad you find my instruction helpful! 😊
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“We all have to learn all the turns!” I actually laughed out loud! I love your videos! Very instructive!
Glad you enjoyed it! 😆
Julia, you are the best teacher ever! Not only demonstrate but teach step by step how to complete that. Majority teacher primarily show how to do that but not in detail for beginners. You shoulder be an instructor in other fields too! Thanks!
I appreciate the positive feedback!
You’re so awesome! I’ve requested for a coach but nobody got back to me (in Melbourne). You’re all I’ve got ❤️ thanks so much for doing these videos! You’re fulfilling many girls’ childhood dreams, including mine. ❤️
You just make them look so easy!!! I swear 3 turns will be the death of me!!
every time i want to learn a skill, i look at your video for the skill. every time without fail i'm doing the skill within a week. thank you so much for making these videos!!!
Oh my gosh, that is wonderful. I am so glad to hear I can help you.
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This has helped me so much! When the coach demonstrates during my lesson, it goes so fast that I don't catch all of the details. I love the way you break it down and then repeat it from different angles. You are just great. Thanks very much. :)
Glad it was helpful!
Oh my gosh, you totally just solved a problem I was having with my right side three turns. In your video toward the end you mention how the free leg moves slowly past the skating foot as you turn. I went back and watched my skating practice video and could see on the right side turns I was either delaying my free leg movement or prematurely tried to snap it around causing my hip to drop in and falling off my edge. I could see on my left turns though I was moving my free leg gradually like you explained and that is why they always came out properly.
I cannot thank you enough, that one small detail has solved a big problem for me. ❤❤❤❤❤
I am so glad to know that I was able to get you that missing tidbit of info you needed. Good luck with your practice!
So well explained, thank you for explaining every step of it, I appreciate when the moves are broken into bits. Great video thank you 💙⛸
Glad it was helpful!
I totally love these videos! I just started taking skating lessons (at 35 years old… I meant to just learn some basics to make sure I was confident on skates and could stop properly, but I somehow got to a level where I am doing two foot spins, and 3-turns! And I’m loving it!). I just did my first outside three turns today but this video definitely gives me a better idea of how to improve! Thank you!
I am 46 and earning the same moves. !! Keep going!!
Thank you, Julia
Excellent video. Amazing, actually, how consistently excellent are all of coach Julia's videos. Well done.
Thanks so much!
I'm often a little wobbly coming out of the 1 legged 3 turn. Thanks for the advice on staying low and extending. I think I'm not getting low enough on my supporting leg and I may be swing my free leg too much. I will try your advice and hopefully that fixes these issues. I'm finally able to do the 2 legged 3 turns consistently! Thanks for your great instructions! :)
Thank you so much for your outstanding explanation Julia - as always! You give me confidence :)
I'm so glad!
Thank youu again for the awesome, detailed explination. It really helps me to pinpoint the things im supposed to focus on when doing this turn. And also, the music you use when showing off the moves is always such a vibe!! 😌
Glad it was helpful! The music is something my (now husband!!!) wrote for my channel.
Worked on this for 3 sessions, and your explanation about the hand positions was finally what helped me get this! Thanks!
Can't wait for your tutorial on the forward inside 3 turns!
Fantastic! Glad it helped!
I’ve been trying so hard to find a video with good explanations on three turns, but I never managed to find one until now, thank you so much!
You are welcome! I am glad you have found it helpful.
Thank you, Coach Julia! This video helped my understanding on how to do a three turn
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you! Excellent tutorial!
I few times watched this video and managed to do it this weekend, after struggling for a year! Thank you! Now will wait for inside 3 turn video.🤍
Glad it helped!
After struggling for two years I finally made it properly and nicely. It was all about just to lift the heel at the moment of turn. My problem has gone!!! Julia thank you so much for your amazing explanation! Love all you videos.
Fantastic! Congratulations on getting the turn, and I am so glad to know that I could help
This might be the best explanation on this move I’ve seen yet. Thank you 🙏
Thank you so much! Glad it was clear for you.
I would love to see a tutorial from you about backwards 3 turns! I've been struggling to figure out how they work and you always explain things so well 😄
Noted! I love teaching those so I will get on it.
Outstanding explanation! Extra helpful when you added the bit about the free leg leading. That’s been my problem. Anyway, I’m really looking forward to getting back on the ice to try this!! Thank you so much for sharing. Very insightful!
You are welcome! Glad you found it helpful.
learned these yesterday. my coach never even mentioned toe picks nor switching shoulders so i was really struggling. thank you for this!!
I am glad I can help!
This is pure gold, thank you so much for your excellent work!! You are making my dream come true! :D
Happy to hear that!
Absolutely love the way you explained it. I was getting onto my rocker but just before my toe picks. Felt it slip underneath me. Took your advise on rocking on to my toe picks at the apex. Nailed it. ✌️🙏
Awe, yay, glad to hear you got it!
Great video! The best three-turn tutorial I've seen. Thx!
Glad you liked it!
Aaaa! Thanks to you I know how to do forward slaloms 🥰 I want to learn figure skating, but I plan to learn the skills and then take classes to fine tune and improve my technique :D
How I wished this video was here when I was trying to learn this move, very nicely demonstrated and explained -as always. 😅 can't wait for inside edge 3turn (omg this one is so hard) and hopefully backwards. Thanks for the video!
Happy to help!
7:41 As you approach the apex of the turn your free leg swings around your skating leg, basically driving the entire motion, such that after the turn your free leg is already in its final position. That's an important but subtle detail that I hadn't noticed before while watching many 3 turn tutorials.
Julia..I haven't skates in years and am an intermediate freestyle skater.
I can't wait to skate again and need to review many moves.
You are they greatest coach ever! Thanks so much for your videos.
I appreciate your feedback so much! Thank you.
So well explained! I wonder why my coaches and judging from the comments, many more coaches don’t talk about using the toepick. It’s so essential for so many basic skills?? Like the bunny hop, or the waltz jump, and this! I was going crazy because I didn’t get how people do these turns, and of course it’s the toepick! It’s always the toepick! Thanks for letting us in on this secret 😂
Because they aren't great at explaining things in English and a lot of talk on the ice may be wasted breath and seems like wasting ice time and they think showing how is better than explaining how, but it's not. However for this 3 turn the toe pick is not as important as you are thinking. Using the toe pick is helpful for beginners but if you're good you don't need the toe pick at all. I do my 3 turns just fine in hockey skates and I hate hate hate hate those suicidal toe picks on my figure skates.
Great video Julia! Although for some reason, even though I’m right-handed, I find doing all the moves to the right the easiest! Aced the right 3 turn but still struggling with the left side! Will try your tips!
Once again thank you for these videos. They're a very helpful addition to what my own instructors are telling me (and a good refresher of all the stuff I can't keep in my head between one class and the next). I'd just like to say that today was a breakthrough for me. I'd been working the forward outside three turn using the curve from the hockey goal markings as a guide and making good progress. Today, however, I used one in my "regular" skating. I was skating, in the turnaround at the end of the rink (forward crossovers), I thought to try the three turn here, at speed.
I did it. I finished the turn around with backward crossovers, then backward stroking to the other end of the rink, more backward crossovers about halfway around, step to forward inside edge, and continue around the rink skating forward.
This was a big breakthrough for me and you helped me get there. So thank you once again.
That is sooooo exciting! Thank you for sharing, and congratulations on your improvement!
I'm an adult figure skater just getting back into it after a few years. I love the way you break down all the moves! With three turns, my biggest issue is that I turn immediately after I push off. I don't glide & then turn. I'm trying to fix this. Hoping to work with a coach at my rink soon.
I have to strengthen up my right side. When coach Julia said gotta do on both sides I felt personally attacked 🤣🤣
Hah! Sorry! But.... you do have to learn both sides. lol.
thank you for the video... it's very helpful! It's so detailed... I've been trying to do the turn on my rocker only and it has been very awful. Will try using a toepick a bit next time!
You're welcome!
Just lurned this in 25 minutes thank you
Glad you found it helpful!
Simply put- you're the best.
Awe, thank you!
Agree with all of you, your video's and explorations are amazing and supper helpful. If you could cover the backward 3 turns in one of your future video's that'd be awesome. 🙂
Great suggestion!
Hi Ms. Julia, I am a rather new beginner roller skater and have been trying the three turn for months but have not been able to do it smoothly or comfortably. I watched your video and realized a building block that I was missing, well a few of them actually. The main one was to learn the two foot turn first. As this applies to ice skating I am sure the same applies to roller skates. I am excited to work on this and see if I have more confidence trying a three turn. I see many people trying to do three turns in roller skating and its not smooth...very sloppy and jumpy. I don't want that. Thanks for the video !
Oh I am so glad you found this video, hopefully with the new tips and some practice you can get these moves down!
Julia, I'm so glad I found your channel. I only realized now I've been doing this the wrong way (left arm front and right arm back with my body facing away from the circle) for YEARS! My coach never corrected me. I always wondered why when I did it, it was uneasy and seemed forced. Thank you for being the light in my life!
Awe, I am so so glad I could bring you that clarity and help you improve. Happy skating and thanks for watching my videos!
Don't be so sure about that. Other videos teach you to do the outside three turn in the way you have decided is wrong. If you do outside 3 turn with same arm forward (e.g. left foot fwd and left arm), that is what you are saying is the wrong way, then you are not hugging the circle at that point, but as you glide towards the apex of your circle you twist your torso such that by the time you get to the apex your opposite arm is front and you are hugging the circle at that point. Many 3 turn videos make a major point of that torso twist, so it may not be as wrong as you have decided.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now.
The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here.
Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall
th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html
A young coach Lloyd at 0:50:
th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html
An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02
th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
So great!
Thanks!
I was so happy to see that my favourite figure skating channel had finally done a video on this! Thank you so much, you always explain things so well and this has helped me a lot to understand how three-turns work! Could you please explain to me what checking is, though?
Happy to help! As far as the checking question, I’ve decided to do a whole video on that question for you, it will come out on the 23rd of August.
Checking means "stopping rotation at the exact correct point." It's difficult to understand and explain. In this case you use your arms to hug the circle and when you flip your hips around you hold your arms steady on the circle and that gives you a measure by which you can feel when to stop rotating your hips.
I am struggling with this >.> Hopefully this video will help me do it
im a rollerblader but no tutorial is as good as this 🥺 tysm!!! i learnt it 2 days ago but was confused if i was doing it right
i did a one foot 3 turn first and i didnt even know a two foot turn existed !! wow
Thank you very much!
You're welcome!
Did you also have a video for backward 3-turns? I can’t seem to find it but now can’t remember if you ever had one lol
That’s very good
And a follow up question... In the jump videos such as the Salchow or Flip, you talk about long flat three turns. Do you have any tips for "straightening out" three turns? I'm having trouble with that part...Maybe this could be the next video? hehe
Anyways, always love your videos and am so thankful for them.
I’m working on these now. My coach wants me to hold my foot by my ankle. I find this really difficult. I might try with my leg extended like this next week!
Learning skating at 31 is challenging, but oh so fun!
mine does too and i always wrap my ankle around my other foot without realising it. it makes my feet get tangled and a lot harder to do 3 turns. there are about 10 people in my class so the coach never helps me to much.
Dziękuję bardzo za pomoc !
Zapraszamy 😁
Wonderful
Thank you!
Your videos are so helpful, they actually make me feel like I can do it! The only problem is that I can only go ice skating in winter...does it help if I practice the elements off ice?
Glad you find them helpful! If you can practice off ice, that is always a big help for when you can get back on ice.
Great tutorial. It would be good to see examples of doing it wrong too
i was positioning my upper body all wrong on my outside 3-s! no wonder i was shaky on these. Thanks for the step by step breakdown. !
Happy to help!
Really thankful for you sharing your knowledge with us beginner skaters. So helpful!
How about when you are doing a routine and don’t have the circle as a guide how can you tell if you have done one or the other. Thanks
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Yay...the 3 turns are the last thing I need to learn to start my waltz 8s. Once I have my waltz 8s I can take the adult pre-bronze MITF and then the free skate test, AND THEN I can FINALLY actually start competing. That is so exciting!
Oh my gosh, I hope you can pick them up with ease! Competing is pretty awesome!
@@CoachJulia 😆 its so funny you say that. This is my humbling skill. The first skill that is not coming easy to me. I have to work for these. But I really appreciate your feedback and support. Is there a way to send you video or tag you in one? I'd love to share over-all skating progress with you occasionally. God bless your amazing heart!
@@CoachJulia also, I just discovered how to find ALL of the videos on your channel! Like "how to apply flat back crystals..." Im so so grateful for this wealth of knowledge available to everyone! I am officially inspired to start "my adult figure skating journey" channel now in hopes that other 30 and 40 and 50 and up year-olds see that its NEVER too late to learn this beautiful and expressive art! May God always shine His glorious face on you for this incredible blessing you have brought us. ♥😁🕊 ⛸⛸⛸⛸⛸!
@@SassySkater ok, now you are going to make me cry.
@@CoachJulia in the words of the greatest sitar player "i only speaks za truf!" ♥🤗
Thank you for the video! I believe my mistake this whole time was in the arms position. I was extending the wrong arm with the wrong foot!
Per coach Julia, it can be done either way. Many videos teach it the way you are thinking is wrong so it's not as wrong as you are thinking. One way or the other may be more natural for you.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now.
The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here.
Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall
th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html
A young coach Lloyd at 0:50:
th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html
An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02
th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
@@TheLarryBrown thank you!
Dear Coah Julia, I would like to ask you for advice to improve my 3-turns. I manage to do left forward outside one quite consistently, and right forward inside one is starting to work. But I cannot say same for right forward and left inside ones. I have led to the conclussion that I can control more or less control my body and edges when I turn counterclockwise, but not when I try to turn clockwise. Can you recommend me any exercise either on ice or off-ice to work on so I can get through this difficulty. Thank you so much, and sorry for my bad English.
Is there a reason you teach with the leg extended? I've seen some do the toe-to-heel for the free leg, thank you!
Usually Toe-Heel is taught for Brackets. The Three turn is usually done with an extended leg. With an extended leg you can better check out of the turn.
I just did my first three turn!!!!!
Yay! Congrats!
I want to learn to do a traveling one over and over and over traveling:) pls
I'm getting so confused between inside and outside edge, which direction to go and about which arm goes in front and which goes in back. Help!
When I do the 2 foot turn, I end up with a full rotation and a closing circle =) How do i avoid closing the circle without hitting breaks?! cause i will just stop right there!
After re-watching the video A LOT and trying to locate my issue, I think it's not using the rocker & pick .. now my feet are itching to try this on the ice haha
Hi Coach Julia, I'm a skate host, and I tell EVERY skater who comes to rink to watch your video's! (I need your business card to hand out lol). You are our favourite coach!
One question... I have trouble with being stable at the ending, and love your comment about leg extension and being low at the end. That helped for sure!!
What i'm not quite sure on head position at end, and it's a little hard to work out in video. (In videio i'm not sure if you are looking a particular way to engage with camera, or that is part of the turn).
Eg: If I do a forward left outside 3 turn - as I finish... should my head be looking towards the direction of travel (ie towards my right arm/shoulder), or should I be looking more at my left arm/shoulder - ie where I have just come from?)
(I'm sure in years to come i'll be able to do either, but for now everything I can do to help preventing wobbles!) Thanks for your amazing teaching and detail!!!
Thanks so much for recommending my channel! I really appreciate it. Email me your mailing address at (skatingcoachjulia @ yahoo.com) and I will send you a little something.
As to your question, When you are done with the three turn, your head should be facing your gliding foot. So away from the direction of travel.
谢谢！
Thank you so much!!
just tested😊
4:45 Twice she says to lift the toe but she means "lift the heel."
It's really putting the weight on the rocker, not lifting the heels, right? It comes out very abrupt to me and I can't get it to turn out well :-(
Thank you coach julia.
One question, my coach explains the arms differently. Like, when I do a forward outside edge 3 turn with my left leg in the front, she says my left hand should be in front of my right shoulder, making me look towards the outside of the circle.
So, I guess my question is: is there another kind of 3 turn like I am doing with my coach?
Your coach is just teaching the arms differently. It is possible to do the arms that way, it is just not as controlled of a position. I never want to over-ride an in person coach though, so always follow your own personal coaches instructions.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now.
The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here.
Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall
th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html
A young coach Lloyd at 0:50:
th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html
An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02
th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
My biggest issue with two-foot turns is that once I’m backwards, I lose my momentum and stop moving. I have to do a micro-backwards swizzle to get moving again. What can I do to maintain my momentum once I’ve turned?
Practice. Get moving, do a two foot half turn and glide for a three count, no pump. Then turn back forwards and glide for a three count, all with no pump at all. Work on that and you will learn to maintain momentum.
So, it means that when you do the turn, you’re supposed to put your weight more on the front of the foot like you’re lifting your heel and the « back » part of your blade is supposed to lift off the ice?
Lakina that is correct! The front of the blade is curved, so this is an easier spot to turn on.
Yes, lifting the heel is the #1 most crucial element. If the back for your blade scrapes while you're trying to turn, forget it. When you lift the heel the turn happens as if by magic.
4:20 just for clarification, it's an outside edge then once you go backwards it's an inside edge?
That’s correct!
@@CoachJulia i am feeling so stupid! i originally thought i was using the wrong foot when i watched three turn tutorials, but until now, i just found out theres inside and outside three turns. thankfully, my stupidity made me learn both of them
@@rienn8559 oh no! 😆. So it is a problem that worked out in your favor!
Facing the circle is *CRUCIAL*
SOOO crucial! 😁
It may feel more natural to some people, but you are overstating it. I do mine not facing the circle and I think they probably locked in for me within the expected time frame of practice.
I just did a survey of the subject and most videos teach "opposite arm forward," as Coach Julia does here. I was giving too much weight to Coach Lloyd and I have been doing it "same arm forward" and getting good that way. I'm going to have to try it coach Julia's way now.
The below videos teach outside 3 turn with "same arm forward" in contrast to what Coach Julia teaches us here.
Coach Paul at iSkateCoach at 3:30 and also the very helpful hint of practicing on the wall
th-cam.com/video/gK8mOMAgY-w/w-d-xo.html
A young coach Lloyd at 0:50:
th-cam.com/video/WIPxwPQPwh0/w-d-xo.html
An older, looser, and funnier coach Lloyd at 2:02
th-cam.com/video/L5tFYHHDkTc/w-d-xo.html
‘All four forward facing three turns.’ Try saying that fast after a couple of drinks haha 🤣
😆 A real tongue twister!!
try saying anything fast after a couple of drinks.
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Great video but you havent explained what the term " checking" consist of , how to do it properly and why its so important ;)
Good point! I’ve decided to address that question in a video, it will come out on August 23rd.
It means to stop the rotation of your foot and hips at the exact correct time. "Check" means "stop at a specific place." You use your arms to hug the circle and then use that as a guide to feel where to stop the rotation of your foot and hips. It's hard to understand and hard to explain. It's not really as important as coaches make it sound. It's more "helpful" than it is "important," but I have found that by concentrating on that check my 3 turn happens more smoothly. Once you're good you won't even think about it.
i dont think ill ever be able to do 3 turns, theyre so hard. they have discouraged me so much
They aren't hard at all, they are just hard to learn. Lifting the heel of the ice and then putting it back down is the key.
@@TheLarryBrown yess i finished level 8 recently !
I don’t understand arm vs leg positioning. I danced and still can’t comprehend via video
Perhaps you can send me a video through my booking website, i can see what you are doing and let you know how it can be fixed. There is a link to my booking website in the description of this video.
My teacher teaches a big class and I understand that but she just tells us what to do and then tells us to do it and she also doesn’t explain things very well causing most of her students to repeat lessons
I also get disappointed by coaches but in their defense, a lot of talk to ten people that can't hear in a noisy rink may just be wasted breath, not to mention blown vocal cords.
hey, does anyone here think it would be disrespectful or rude of me to draw on the ice? i try to teach myself figure skating and i go during community skate times. to i have the privilege to draw the guide on the ice? what do y’all think?
just don’t understand why she doesn’t check out of her turn and instead just keeps traveling in that circle! so weird.
Three Turns alway travel along the same circle. If I was to switch circles, then I would be doing a Rocker Turn. 🙂
@@CoachJulia got it; thank you! i was wondering more about what i saw as not checking the motion of the turn,, but i see now that of course you are but just in a different way, i.e.. with the extended free leg after the turn? (thinking of the turn more as piece of footwork or an eventual jump entrance rather than a single discreet element that “stops” after you complete it.)
A dreaded U-turn LOL
😅 Glad you appreciated that.