Skating 101 - Jumping, The Disclaimer

Personally, I think all skating progression carries a degree of risk and, in the pursuit of jumping perfection, then you fall a lot. I literally cannot emphasise how much falling you do. However, I don't want anyone doing themselves a mischief because of the insanity I'm going to be spewing in the upcoming articles, so I am putting together a little disclaimer that goes a little something like this...

I am not a trained skating coach and I strongly recommend that you learn any and all skating elements with assistance from a coach. That said, attempting the jumps isn't THAT dangerous at all unless you're a total maniac, so while the below can all be attempted off ice, no liability is accepted for your own fooling around when attempting any of them, whether on or off ice. Watch out for any objects nearby.
Furthermore, none of my jumping explanations are intended as a comprehensive primer on jump execution, they're largely intended as a simplified, jokey version for anyone to have a go on the floor of their house. With that in mind, there are also some hideous technical inaccuracies in the jump execution descriptions. I am aware of these, please just accept those as creative license for simplicity/humour here. Finally on this point, all the jumps are being described from an anticlockwise jumper's perspective. If you feel more comfortable jumping clockwise then just swap all instances of "left" and "right" around.

 Lastly, you can step through the jumps on the floor of your very own bedroom and you don't even have to include the jumping part if you don't want. Instead, you can simply step through the rotation rather than do any lifting off. Enjoy!

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