Power pulls

Repeated changes of edge on one backward foot down the rink's diagonal, broken by quick rockers.

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On one foot, travelling backwards, you change edge again and again, each change a pull that drives the blade into the next curve. U.S. Figure Skating’s Pre-Gold skating skills test strings three power pulls with two quick twisting rockers, repeats the set down the whole diagonal, and then skates the other diagonal on the other foot, three or four sets a foot. The focus it names is power and quickness.

No document behind this guide defines a power pull on its own. The meaning here comes from the test’s diagram, which labels each pull as a change of edge, and from the forward and backward change of edge pulls three levels earlier.

The Gold test uses power pulls again, into and out of double rockers.

Build on

• Power change of edge pullsPower pulls are the backward change of edge pulls skated on the diagonal with quick rockers between them, three levels later in U.S. Figure Skating's tests.
• Backward one-foot glidePower pulls are skated travelling backwards on one foot throughout.

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