How to Do a T-Stop on Ice Skates

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Hi my name is Charlene Dodge and I'm here at the Clearwater Ice Arena in Clearwater, Florida and on behalf of Expert Village. This is beginning Ice Skating. OK now we?re going to learn the T stop, we?re going to hold our legs in a T position. This would be the right foot T Stop, stopping with the right foot. Your going to practice standing in this position, you will put the right arm in front, and the left arm to the back. And try to stand and balance and hold this position. Once you have that without a lot of movement. Then you'll ready to begin trying to do the stop. The first thing you would try to do is push off and just glide and hold your foot up, hold that right foot up. And control the glide, once you can hold the foot up and control the glide your ready start putting the foot down. Now it's very important in a T stop that you do not drag the foot on the inside edge. You want to feel like your pushing the foot towards the heel by using the outer edge of the blades, so you have to push back a little bit with the ankle. Your going to hold the glide be careful not step on your own blade, angle the blade to the outside edge. Bend the knees until you come to a stop. Where going to do the same maneuver with the left foot, we put the left foot behind, the left arm in front, and the right arm to the back. The reasons for holding the arms this way. Will keep you from spinning when you try to stop. One of the most common mistakes is to go like this and stop and you wonder why you start spinning and turning. To avoid that we hold the arms in the opposite foot and arm position to help maintain a straight line, placing the foot down very gently just tickling the ice bending the knees and now we stay nice and straight

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