Me on Seeing Myself in a Video
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| "Please Coach, no!" |
When My Coach Has a Camera in Her Hands
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| "Get over it!" |
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Friday, September 13, 2013
Getting Videoed While Skating
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Stuff I Hate On Ice.2
Madam Mim wants to video me to show me something I'm doing wrong.
My experience of looking at myself in video while my wrongness is pointed out by an eager coach is always like this:
Then after I did a bit of 'performance business' in my skating Madam Mim exclaimed, "Are you sure you don't want to compete?"
After watching a video of my skating, I can only envision my skating performance one way.
No.More.Videos. They're too discouraging.
My experience of looking at myself in video while my wrongness is pointed out by an eager coach is always like this:
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| "See, there! Get back further on the blade!" |
Then after I did a bit of 'performance business' in my skating Madam Mim exclaimed, "Are you sure you don't want to compete?"
After watching a video of my skating, I can only envision my skating performance one way.
No.More.Videos. They're too discouraging.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Stuff I Hate on Ice. 1
A while back, Coach Cruella wanted to video me.
Okay.
But......
My tiny little skating ego is crushed unto the ... earth...well, the ice.
There's only one way to fix this issue:
No, it's not practice.
Or more lessons.
Crush them! Crush them to little bitty pieces!
Okay.
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| I feel like this while she videos |
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| I look like this in the video.... |
My tiny little skating ego is crushed unto the ... earth...well, the ice.
There's only one way to fix this issue:
No, it's not practice.
Or more lessons.
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| Death to Video Cameras! |
Friday, December 7, 2012
Techniquey Skating with Brian Orser Videos
I'm pumped.
Since I'm stuck off ice with a bad knee, I've been looking at stuff to do when I get back on ice. I recently got all of the "Speed for Free" videos with Brian Orser from Myskatecoach.com and I'm now respectfully worshipful of Brian's coaching of skating skills.
These are 8 videos extracted from a group class Brian taught, and they are very, very skating skills techniquey. I can say that each of the videos have something I want to try when I get back on the ice because the demonstrated techniques are within my skill set. I don't think that means the skills are easy, but I can try them and see if they do improve my speed.
How techniquey are they? Deeply techniquey.
There's a video on how to use your arms to build up your speed. If that's been mentioned to me before, it completely passed me by. So, I consider that deep technique (although once he talked about it, I realized the physics was perfectly obvious as long jumpers use a variation of it).
The series also has a couple of videos on how to do proper russian stroking (don't google that term by the way, you'll get responses that are NSFW) in the series. It really looks like alternating forward crossovers to me, but he shows how to get speed out of it.
My favorite is his video on "Progressive Edge Change" (it's not in the Speed for Free series). This is an exercise that is designed to increase speed. However, at the end of several variations of the exercise you build up to doing an edge change alternating feet every stroke. Hmmm, maybe I can use this as an approach to improve my edge changes so I can finally do edge pulls.
The only bad thing about MyskatingCoach.com videos is the expense. I got these in a 70% off Black Friday sale. The videos are only a few minutes long and run $4.99 per video. If you root around in the site you may find a coupon for reduced cost if you buy a lot of them.
And speaking as someone who is a decade + older than Brian, he's just the charmingest guy managing his class of teenagers in the group lessons.
So, I'm pumped, ready to get back on the ice!
Since I'm stuck off ice with a bad knee, I've been looking at stuff to do when I get back on ice. I recently got all of the "Speed for Free" videos with Brian Orser from Myskatecoach.com and I'm now respectfully worshipful of Brian's coaching of skating skills.
These are 8 videos extracted from a group class Brian taught, and they are very, very skating skills techniquey. I can say that each of the videos have something I want to try when I get back on the ice because the demonstrated techniques are within my skill set. I don't think that means the skills are easy, but I can try them and see if they do improve my speed.
How techniquey are they? Deeply techniquey.
There's a video on how to use your arms to build up your speed. If that's been mentioned to me before, it completely passed me by. So, I consider that deep technique (although once he talked about it, I realized the physics was perfectly obvious as long jumpers use a variation of it).
The series also has a couple of videos on how to do proper russian stroking (don't google that term by the way, you'll get responses that are NSFW) in the series. It really looks like alternating forward crossovers to me, but he shows how to get speed out of it.
My favorite is his video on "Progressive Edge Change" (it's not in the Speed for Free series). This is an exercise that is designed to increase speed. However, at the end of several variations of the exercise you build up to doing an edge change alternating feet every stroke. Hmmm, maybe I can use this as an approach to improve my edge changes so I can finally do edge pulls.
The only bad thing about MyskatingCoach.com videos is the expense. I got these in a 70% off Black Friday sale. The videos are only a few minutes long and run $4.99 per video. If you root around in the site you may find a coupon for reduced cost if you buy a lot of them.
And speaking as someone who is a decade + older than Brian, he's just the charmingest guy managing his class of teenagers in the group lessons.
So, I'm pumped, ready to get back on the ice!
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