Master the Figure Skating Bunny Hop Jump | Step-by-Step Tutorial

In this video we're going to cover the move known as the bunny hop. Now the bunny hop you might be thinking we're just going to stand like this to kind of do that then eat some grass and have a carrot. That is not a bunny hop. A bunny hop actually looks like this. You skate forward, you jump, you land and that's it. This is an incredibly important move to learn. If you skip this one you'll get to the three jump and things will go wrong, you know. Bunny hop is scary because you're leaning forwards and you're stabbing your toe pick into the ice that makes you think that after you will fall onto your face, which will happen if you forget the key moment of stepping your other foot down, okay. So the technique goes like this. We can either use the hands together or we can do opposite hands. Sometimes people like opposite hands because if you walk down the street most people tend to walk like this. They don't sort of walk with the same one so opposite hands works just to get the mechanics of the feet right, okay. Let's start slow. It's ideal to start slow. We'll start on the barrier. How about the barrier? So what we need to understand is you glide forwards, the leg will come through as you hit the toe pick, as your weight continues forwards, this toe pick will go on the floor and this is the key moment. The original leg you jumped off of will come through and step a flat down. This is crucial. It's glide, toe pick, toe pick, flat, okay. If you do glide, toe pick, toe pick, toe pick, you'll end up doing a few more toe picks and then a slide on your face, okay. And that really is the crucial error in this one, okay. So trying it just here with a light hold. This is wet. Make my glove wet. So just trying from here, a little glide, hop toe glide. That's all we're trying to do for now. Notice the leg came through as I hit the toe pick to get some lift up into the air. I stay straight up. I try not to hinge like I'm doing a spiral like this, okay. You may think it looks super contemporary and super cool but it's also super dangerous, yeah. When you get to a high enough level you can do all this crazy stuff but I do not advise doing it at this point, right. So we've got that key moment of leg and arm like this. When we've got to that point we have to try it moving slowly first and it doesn't have to be a bunny leap to the moon. It can be a bunny step to get you started. So we could do left, right, left, leg through, step flat. We need to get used to this action. Left, right, left, leg comes through, step flat. That's what we're trying to get used to. As the confidence builds up you can then take it up to a left, right, left, small hop and then when you feel fully confident with it you'll do left, right, left and then leap up as high as you can and stamp that foot down just to let everybody in the ice rink know a bunny hop has taken place and they've missed it. They've missed the bunny hop because they didn't realise what they were going to miss out on. If you like the video give it a thumb up preferably and a thumb down if you despise the video. It's fine also.