"Doing the dance" has emerged as the camp's underlying theme as the phrase keeps surfacing during instruction on cross-overs and skating imitations technique.
This morning's warm-up session featured dry-land straight-away imitations in front of the big trackside mirror with emphasis on weight transfer and body alignment. This focus reaped visible benefits for all skaters in the on-ice session that followed immediately after. The morning ice session consisted of progressively challenging balance and gliding drills interspersed with a pyramid of laps in which to apply these new and re-discovered technical skills.
This morning's warm-up session featured dry-land straight-away imitations in front of the big trackside mirror with emphasis on weight transfer and body alignment. This focus reaped visible benefits for all skaters in the on-ice session that followed immediately after. The morning ice session consisted of progressively challenging balance and gliding drills interspersed with a pyramid of laps in which to apply these new and re-discovered technical skills.
Today's informative seminar, led by Neal Zaluski, focused on equipment including sharpening, rocker, bend and set-up. Although denying any artistic ability, Neal's drawing skills on the whiteboard combined with practical demonstrations and answers to questions made clear the basics for camp participants.
Coach Neal Zaluski demonstrating rocker measurement.
Following lunch, it was back outdoors under blue Calgary skies for another warm-up run and dynamic stretching in preparation for the afternoon on-ice session.
Back on the ice assisted by coach Abby Ennis and former national team sprint coach and Olympian Sean Ireland, skaters were led through a progression of cornering drills combined with sets of laps and 200m accelerations.
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