Forward Outside and Inside Eight (Paul Wylie Lesson, Compulsory Figures, Moves in the Field)

what are we doing okay so when you're focusing on the center I think and and this may seem a little too okay everyone for you but what I want okay cuz this is old school okay right I get it but as you're coming towards let's say the forward outside you're going to turn that foot be on your heel slow down push okay you see how as I'm coming in here okay I'm on my heel roing Turing okay so there's that moment of control so I'm not kind of losing it as I step now can you explain what the ruler of the blade is for people who are you know more normal the blade is is that so the middle part of your blade is very flat are you sure where the rocker is for everyone yeah so the The Rocker is that's a that's a complex question right oh okay so the front of the blade is that's where the sweet spot is and it's got a nice curve I like to think of it as like a cradle it's that kind of like security way up front that's where you want to spin right but the middle part of your blade is very flat it's like it's like a ruler okay the back part of the blade also has maneuverability in that it also has a tight turning radius okay which is why you want to sit back as you're going onto this push and turn that small radius turn as you're doing your push and you said to bring the toes up coming in yeah yes so that you can get to your heel you're picking your toes up as you're turning it right and you're grinding into the ice you're kind of like slowing the speed down with friction against the ice there as you're as you're bringing the foot about 90° okay okay and it works the same way on the inside so as I'm coming here on the inside it's a little easier on the inside frankly because I think most people have an easier time yes getting for sh on their Inside Edge all right I'll try it yeah but this Center is one of those things that I think you can present to the judges as like look I did my center right okay but be sure you're not in the middle of your sorry be sure you're not doing a toe push there okay David bat better sit back foot Le okay lean sit back keep sitting back okay my one leg does not want to do that Carlo would say stand in okay so stand in so meaning like lean into the circle foot across your path arms coming around Point your toe turn it slow it feet together get your toe to heel there the minute that you push off I want you to get your toe to heal well we're just playing musical centers here oh we are really trying I'm sorry you really like to like change the focus you know we're really trying to give you a good push and now you're like talking about the C okay sorry I see I have my coffee already all right here we go okay push toe to heel yeah squeeze those feet together now bring the Foot In Front arms it's too fast okay bring your foot across arms are going to come a little later than that toe to heel foot in front arms now Point your toe okay sorry I tried to give a better push okay don't come back to that Center put back you know we have Circles of markers right over there okay okay okay foot where which Center are you coming back to not that one what what you like I don't know this one this is the one you pushed from wait here yeah that's why I was saying musical centers okay this this one was the one that I used for marking anyway never mind okay it's better I think that one foot is better than the other okay six foot is better yeah and I think that it's because you do a better job when you're when you're coming in you're you want to get some slowing and you want to get onto the heel and push like with control there and I think what happens is you come in with some heat there and then you skid like that okay okay but that's pushing not pulling with your blade so you want to be pulling with I know that sounds weird but you know imagine like a power pool right but you're kind of like putting a snow cloud at it okay instead of curl you know using using the blade to turn and rip like you're carving something okay if that makes sense yeah I have to get my arches stronger at my foot I think to pull up could be right so you might have to really compensate and doesn't want to turn as much as this yeah so you're going to compensate so that it is symmetrical this is why we're doing all the hog warts stretches with carrot that's it right for like hours a day right okay turn that toe so that it's going on the circle already yeah toe to heel wait for that foot do you see how your shoulders are already kind of rotating there yeah you want to keep that your free shoulder pulled back until 3/4 yeah okay okay Foot In Front wait for that arm wait there you go and now grip okay rip yeah it's hard on these free skates I think to rock all the way to the back of the blade you know you're really like pushing me to get finger blades I don't know it's not essential there that was good see that do you feel that grip there yeah okay this is looking better sit way back way back try to slow it down to a dead stop at the push I got too excited you said the last one was good I just miss my whole now there okay middle of the blade you want that ruler part to push and I'll explain that in a second okay all right David so when you're pushing right you want to push with the ruler part of your blade okay that flat part because you want as much contact with the ice you do not want to push with your toe okay so if you push with your toe it's sort of like you know when you're on your preest and you're six years old and they're like no toe pushes right no Flats does that bother you more than a flutz well no a flut or a flat which one is more upsetting to you well I think Flats on a figure are just like a nonstarter right so yeah so if I see Flats on a figure I'm like wait a minute we need to go all the way back okay because it shows that you don't have the throw and the lean right and then when you and if you toe push like that it's like if somebody's toe pushing in you know beginner yeah and you're not a beginner okay right so all right got it they need a shirt that just like the no wire hangers right right right right yes there okay keep that right shoulder back until the 3/4 Mark okay which feels weird but you want to good and then the foot okay okay so if you're going too fast you've got to start thinking how am I going to grip the ice so that I get friction on because you can control your speed when you're pushing when do I check the speed when do I start like at the when I do the last quarter cuz I'm thinking of that I'm going too fast too late like it's like well that's great you know you're going too fast yeah think I get myself friction on the I so that I can you know like it would be like this and I'm like oh my gosh I'm going too fast so see what I did there yeah you P up yeah there's a essentially okay you want to be as close to stop as possible there okay cuz otherwise you're going to go pass through into the middle one okay inside yeah okay that was a little slow you were really trying not to toe I know you were so no don't don't try not to tow push I want you to instead push from the ruler part of your blade okay okay the middle plat part okay think positively okay middle part go there okay now pass your arms and your foot can you pass your hands right by your hips there now drag drag your hands past your hips so that they're actually like you can feel your hands at your hips when you're passing them there you go okay and now feel the ruler M middle okay Point your toe back arm higher I want your arms to be level please there you go sit back ruler okay little longer with that foot okay so I want you to think about you're skating from perpendicular there okay that was better pushing from perpendicular there okay that the right to left push is a little shorter than it should be okay this one's a little better it needs to be perpendicular that being said you're pretty steady on the actual eight itself which is good okay twist that back arm behind you my feet cuz this one you know you don't have to be up right you have to lean your foot over in order to get that grip lean it over there now lean it over lean that foot over I want you to exaggerate this Inside Edge as you get you know 5 two and 1T from the center yeah you're going to start like gradually getting more Arch pushing down into the push there there better okay lean it in okay all right it's getting better I didn't even have coffee this morning I you don't need coffee you're doing figures I know all right here you go so you on the left foot I think that when you come in you tend to want to turn this on the front of your blade yeah okay I want you to try to pick your toes up and turn on the heel there okay because then you're going to have your foot ready to push on the r okay okay all right okay