Power change of edge pulls

One foot changing edge after edge down the rink, forwards for one length and backwards for the next.

Also called change of edge pulls. Other names.

basic

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shoulder to hip —on the —

LFI and LFO alternating down a straight, each change a pull from the knee · forwards, one foot. Negative twist means the shoulders are held back against the hips, which stores rotation before a takeoff and checks it on a landing.

You skate the length of the rink on one foot, changing from inside to outside and back again, then change feet at the centre and do it backwards, outside to inside, for the second length. That is U.S. Figure Skating’s Pre-Bronze skating skills element, with power as its focus; its Adult Silver test asks for the same with continuous flow and strength as the focus.

Each change of edge is the tracing on one foot moving from one curve to a different curve, which is U.S. Figure Skating’s and British Ice Skating’s shared definition. A pull is that change done for speed: the blade driven from one curve into the next.

It is the two-foot change of edge on one foot, and the element before the Pre-Gold power pulls.

Build on

Two-foot change of edgeThe same change of curve, made on one foot and driven for speed down the length of the rink.
One-foot glideEvery change of edge in the pulls is made on one foot, held for the length of the rink.

Leads to

One element in the guide is built on this one.

Power 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.

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.