Figure Skating | Building Better Balance With Off-Ice Exercises

Finding your balance on the ice is a challenge that every figure skater will be faced with on their figure skating journey. You will fall over more times than you can count and hopefully keep coming back for more! And just when you think you have figured out how to balance on your blades, you're met with something even harder to try! If this sounds like your journey so far, don't worry because you are definitely not alone.  

In this lesson, we have taken a break from the ice and come up with three exercises that are going to help you build better balance. They will challenge your balance with jumps, rotations and even spinning on one foot. If they sound complicated, we promise they are super simple and can even be practiced at home. So get ready and swap those skates for shoes, because this lesson is going to put your balance to the test.  

In this lesson you'll learn:  

- Why you always need to be working on balance
- 3 exercises that will help you build better balance 
- The BIG mistake that stops figure skaters from having better balance  

Happy Skating!   

- Mitch & Stacey