How To Do A Forward Outside Three-Turn In Figure Skates

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Coach Julia has been skating (first on roller and then on ice) for over 30 years. She was a competitive skater until she turned 21 when she got her first contract as a professional show skater. Julia has been a figure skating coach for 15 years, is a USFS Gold Medalist in Moves in the Field, and an ISI Gold Level certified judge. She has held positions as the Skating Director of the largest skating program in the United States, as well as Head Coach at two different skating clubs. Julia has now turned her skills towards a larger audience and is bringing her love and knowledge of skating to all of you!

[BryannaGordin]

aren’t you not supposed to use your toepicks for 3 turns?🤔

[katesmith]

You are one of very few ice skating coaches who explain every move in detail. You break down each move into smaller parts and show it several times. It helps a lot. Especially to a greenhorn like me. THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR KNOWLEDGE WITH US. 😙

[newtovideo]

This has helped me so much! When the coach demonstrates during my lesson, it goes so fast that I don't catch all of the details. I love the way you break it down and then repeat it from different angles. You are just great. Thanks very much. :)

[hollynwills]

every time i want to learn a skill, i look at your video for the skill. every time without fail i'm doing the skill within a week. thank you so much for making these videos!!!

[Doctorcocolife]

You’re so awesome! I’ve requested for a coach but nobody got back to me (in Melbourne). You’re all I’ve got ❤️ thanks so much for doing these videos! You’re fulfilling many girls’ childhood dreams, including mine. ❤️

[maytmdmrw]

So well explained, thank you for explaining every step of it, I appreciate when the moves are broken into bits. Great video thank you 💙⛸

[BeccaJBoud]

I totally love these videos! I just started taking skating lessons (at 35 years old… I meant to just learn some basics to make sure I was confident on skates and could stop properly, but I somehow got to a level where I am doing two foot spins, and 3-turns! And I’m loving it!). I just did my first outside three turns today but this video definitely gives me a better idea of how to improve! Thank you!

[deesterdee]

Oh my gosh, you totally just solved a problem I was having with my right side three turns. In your video toward the end you mention how the free leg moves slowly past the skating foot as you turn. I went back and watched my skating practice video and could see on the right side turns I was either delaying my free leg movement or prematurely tried to snap it around causing my hip to drop in and falling off my edge. I could see on my left turns though I was moving my free leg gradually like you explained and that is why they always came out properly.

I cannot thank you enough, that one small detail has solved a big problem for me. ❤❤❤❤❤

[windcoming]

Julia, you are the best teacher ever! Not only demonstrate but teach step by step how to complete that. Majority teacher primarily show how to do that but not in detail for beginners. You shoulder be an instructor in other fields too! Thanks!

[raelalor]

“We all have to learn all the turns!” I actually laughed out loud! I love your videos! Very instructive!

[katherinewinston]

I would love to see a tutorial from you about backwards 3 turns! I've been struggling to figure out how they work and you always explain things so well 😄

[maddiecarpenter]

You just make them look so easy!!! I swear 3 turns will be the death of me!!

[tatianache]

After struggling for two years I finally made it properly and nicely. It was all about just to lift the heel at the moment of turn. My problem has gone!!! Julia thank you so much for your amazing explanation! Love all you videos.

[TheLarryBrown]

7:41 As you approach the apex of the turn your free leg swings around your skating leg, basically driving the entire motion, such that after the turn your free leg is already in its final position. That's an important but subtle detail that I hadn't noticed before while watching many 3 turn tutorials.

[TheLarryBrown]

Excellent video. Amazing, actually, how consistently excellent are all of coach Julia's videos. Well done.

[evijax]

I few times watched this video and managed to do it this weekend, after struggling for a year! Thank you! Now will wait for inside 3 turn video.🤍

[shalajawilson]

learned these yesterday. my coach never even mentioned toe picks nor switching shoulders so i was really struggling. thank you for this!!

[coldservings]

Once again thank you for these videos. They're a very helpful addition to what my own instructors are telling me (and a good refresher of all the stuff I can't keep in my head between one class and the next). I'd just like to say that today was a breakthrough for me. I'd been working the forward outside three turn using the curve from the hockey goal markings as a guide and making good progress. Today, however, I used one in my "regular" skating. I was skating, in the turnaround at the end of the rink (forward crossovers), I thought to try the three turn here, at speed.

I did it. I finished the turn around with backward crossovers, then backward stroking to the other end of the rink, more backward crossovers about halfway around, step to forward inside edge, and continue around the rink skating forward.

This was a big breakthrough for me and you helped me get there. So thank you once again.

[PhenomenonGuy]

Absolutely love the way you explained it. I was getting onto my rocker but just before my toe picks. Felt it slip underneath me. Took your advise on rocking on to my toe picks at the apex. Nailed it. ✌️🙏

[greenlimenay]

I’ve been trying so hard to find a video with good explanations on three turns, but I never managed to find one until now, thank you so much!