First Turns

The hips turn 180 degrees while the upper body counter-rotates against them into a checked position.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.6: Badge 6 · recall

With knees bent, rotate the shoulders against the hips and rock slightly forward on the blade to turn backward.

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In the backward-to-forward turn the blades rock from the balls of the feet toward the heels.

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A forward outside three-turn goes from the forward outside edge to the back inside edge, on the same foot.

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The inside three-turn mirrors the outside one: in on an inside edge, out backward on the outside edge.

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Raising the skating knee slightly rocks the skater forward for the turn; the knee bends again after it.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.9: Badge 9 · recall

Falling off the edge is corrected with a strong counter-rotation, hips against shoulders, in the check after the turn.

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From a T the skater rides the outside edge, rotates the upper body, rises to turn the hips 180 degrees and re-bends into a checked back inside edge.

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The two-foot turn on the spot is badge 5, the gliding one badge 6, the outside three-turn badge 9 and the inside three-turn badge 10.

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A is one line that turns with a small point into the curve, like the figure 3. B changes feet, C keeps two blades on the ice, D never turns.

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A three-turn stays on one foot; in a mohawk the weight passes from one foot to the other as the skater turns.

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The free foot comes in at a right angle, its heel close to the instep of the skating foot.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.11: Badge 11 · recall

A mohawk keeps the same kind of edge, inside to inside, while the weight passes to the other foot.

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The skating foot slides quickly along its line and is lifted as the hips come round to face it.

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Rotate the upper body and the free foot so that the heels point towards each other.

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The guide compares the mohawk's checked finish to the end of the forward outside three-turn.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.11: Badge 11 · recall

Badge 12 asks for the mohawk step sequence counterclockwise and clockwise.

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The skater glides on a forward inside edge, winds the upper body in, brings the free heel to the instep and changes feet onto a back inside edge.

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The counterclockwise sequence runs LFO, RFI crossover, LFO, then the RFI mohawk to a left back inside edge.

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In C one line ends and a second begins beside it, carrying on backward: the turn changed feet. A turns on one foot, B on two, D runs straight.

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The upper body rotates about 90 degrees into the circle and the hips follow before the check.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.7: Badge 7 · recall

The weight transfers to the front of the blade when turning so the skater can glide backward on the circle.

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The free leg stays at the skating heel through the whole three-turn, head up and back straight.

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The check holds the shoulders back with the outside arm in front, so the upper body faces the inside of the curve.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.9: Badge 9 · recall

After the inside three-turn the check turns the upper body to face the outside of the curve.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.10: Badge 10 · recall

Use the correct knee action at the turn, rocking slightly forward to the ball of the foot as the turn begins.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.9: Badge 9 · applied

Holding the shoulders against the hips after the turn is the check, which keeps the skater on the new edge.

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Gliding on the circle, the upper body turns in, the hips follow against the shoulders, and the skater checks and glides backward.

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First a push from the T onto the inside edge, then upper-body rotation, a rise to turn the hips, and a checked glide backward.

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D shows two lines side by side that turn together, both blades on the ice. A turns on one foot, B changes feet, C runs straight.

Source: Special Olympics Figure Skating Coaching Guide (2021), 5.7: Badge 7 · applied