One-foot glide

The same glide with the other foot lifted, which is where balance stops being shared.

Also called forward one-foot glide. Other names.

basic

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The mark this leaves on the ice. A straight line is a claim as much as a curve is: it says the blade is flat, and a blade that is not flat is an edge and a different element.

shoulder to hip —on the —

both blades flat, then the weight onto the left and the right foot lifted to the inside of the knee. Negative twist means the shoulders are held back against the hips, which stores rotation before a takeoff and checks it on a landing.

From a glide on two feet you lift one foot and keep going on the other in a straight line. The free foot is carried beside the skating leg with its toe pointing down; Ice Skating Australia places it at the inside of the knee and asks for about a metre on each foot. Learn to Skate USA has it at its second level, on either foot.

On two feet the weight was shared. On one it all sits over a single blade, and the glide runs straight only while that blade is flat: British Ice Skating defines a flat as a straight tracing on one foot. New Zealand’s KiwiSkate teaches the straight glide and then assesses it on a curve, which is the blade tipped onto an edge and the next tier of this guide. Australia keeps the free foot at the knee for its backward one-foot glide and its first one-foot spin.

Build on

Two-foot glideThe same straight glide with one foot lifted and carried at the inside of the skating knee.

Off the ice

Balance on one legStanding on one leg with the ankle correcting all the time, as every edge asks.

Leads to

12 elements in the guide are built on this one.

Swing rollA swing roll is a one-foot edge held for several beats while the free leg swings past, so it rests on holding one foot that long.
Bunny hopThe bunny hop springs off a glide on one foot and returns to it, so the glide has to hold first.
DragThe drag is a glide on one foot with the skating knee bent deep and the free leg extended behind, turned out.
PivotIce Skating Australia teaches pivots at its last level, long after the one-foot glide. The circling foot glides on an inside edge.
Power change of edge pullsEvery change of edge in the pulls is made on one foot, held for the length of the rink.
T-stopThe T-stop starts from a one-foot glide, the other foot set down behind it.
Left forward inside edge, Left forward outside edge, Right forward inside edge, Right forward outside edgeThe one-foot glide runs on a flat. New Zealand teaches it straight and then on a curve, which is the blade on an edge.
Extended edgeAn extended edge holds one foot for a third of a circle. The one-foot glide is where holding one foot starts.
SpiralA spiral is held on an edge, the free leg stretched out behind, turned out, and raised to hip height or higher.

Appears in

In the UK's grades

None of the British level lists in this guide name it outside the Skills tests below.

No test syllabus recorded yet.