How to Do a Single Loop Jump Ice Skating (journeybacktotheice) 5 MINUTE FRIDAYS

Hello and welcome back to yet another 5 Minute Friday video. If you're new, hi my name is Ava. I'm a competitive adult figure skater and I am doing a series on my channel called 5 Minute Fridays where I am going over most of these single jumps in 5 minutes or less. In the last 5 Minute Friday video we went over how to do the single toe loop so if you missed that or any of the other videos I will leave those linked in the description box below. In today's video we will be talking about how to do the single loop jump. The loop jump is the fourth single rotation jump you will learn as a figure skater. This is also the first single jump you will learn that takes off and lands on the exact same foot. Before starting your loop jump I highly recommend making sure that you have a strong one foot glide. I also recommend making sure that you can confidently do a waltz jump, single saucow, and single toe loop. This is going to make learning your single loop jump a lot easier. So with all that being said, let's get right into the video. So there are a few ways that you can enter your single loop jump. For this video I will be showing it from the backward crossover entrance. However, I am planning on making a more detailed loop jump tutorial video in the future showing all the different entrances you can do. For our backward crossover entrance we want to make sure that we are doing this on a curve or a circle so make sure you find space on the ice that will allow you to do this. I will mention that I do a backward 3 turn into my back crossover entrance. This is something that you do not have to do. It is just the entrance that I do personally. First we are going to start with 1 to 3 backward crossovers. Once you have finished your last crossover you are going to want to set up for your loop jump. We are going to want to do this by making sure our arms are hugging the circle. We are also doing a backward glide making sure that the outside foot that has crossed over is gliding slightly in front of the foot tracing the circle. Here we are going to want to hold this position for a few seconds. We are then going to press into our edge making sure that our arms are still hugging the circle and we are going to start to slightly bend our knees to prepare for our takeoff. At this point I recommend transferring all of your weight to the foot that you are going to take off and land on. This is going to make your takeoff a lot easier. This will also help ensure that your free leg can make it up into the air and hit that H position. Now while we are doing this we want to make sure that our body is getting ready to rotate and go up into the air so our arms are now going to go from that straight line that's hugging the circle to more of an L-shaped curve that is eventually going to scoop up and hug ourselves into the air. This is going to help you get the height you need to complete your loop jump. So now that our arms are in the L-shape getting ready to take off we are going to make a slight pivot on the ice and jump up into the air. This slight pivot that we do on our takeoff is actually us pressing into our edge to make that loop jump happen. Now that we have pivoted around we're going to want to make sure that we press into our edge, push down on the foot that is going to take off and we are going to twist and launch ourselves into the air to make a single rotation jump. Notice how when I am taking off I am pushing into my edge, I am pushing up into the H position and my arms are also making a scooping motion to go with me into the jump. This H position is super important for landing your loop jump and is also something very important for harder jumps down the road. The single loop is the first jump I recommend making sure that your arms are slightly touching while you're in the air. A lot of coaches like to say thinking about you are holding a beach ball or a basketball in the air. This is because if your arms open up partway through the jump you will be unable to complete the single rotation. For our landing of the single loop jump you want to make sure that you are coming down on the exact same foot that you took off on and you want to make sure you are landing on a backward outside edge. As we are landing our single loop jump we are coming down from our H position and we are going to kick that free leg out and behind us into a landing position. Our arms are also going to break away from the imaginary beach ball that we were holding in the air and we are going to have a nice presenting landing position for our arms. And that is how you do the single loop jump in figure skating. If you have any questions about this jump please leave them in the comments below. I will be making more of a detailed tutorial in the future for this jump but in the meantime I will do my best to answer any questions you may have. As always make sure you subscribe to stay up to date and if you've missed any of the previous 5 Minute Friday videos you can find them in the description box below. I will see you in the next video!