How to Land the Axel: Your Guide to Success

What Are the Key Steps?

• First, mobility is essential; skaters need flexibility, especially in the hips and shoulders, to achieve the necessary rotation and extension.
• Next, alignment ensures balance and control throughout the jump, with a focus on body positioning from takeoff to landing.
• Strength is another critical component, as skaters need powerful leg, core, and upper body muscles to achieve the height and rotation required.
• Finally, technique brings everything together; a precise approach to timing, body movement, and air position helps skaters execute a clean axel. By systematically building these components, skaters can develop the confidence and muscle memory needed for a consistent and successful axel.

Mastering Mobility for a Fluid Axel

Alignment for a Consistent Takeoff

Building Strength for Height and Rotation

Strength is essential for achieving the height and rotation required to land the axel. Figure Skaters need powerful leg, core, and upper body strength to lift off the ice and maintain the speed needed for a complete rotation.

Through FLEXAFIT’s strength-focused exercises, we help figure skaters build the specific muscles that power jumps like the axel. Our unique methodology involves explosive exercises that mimic the force and timing of the axel, allowing you to develop the strength needed for a high and controlled takeoff. When combined with alignment, this strength helps ensure that you’re prepared to achieve both lift and rotation.

Perfecting Technique for a Clean Axel

Technique is where all the elements come together. A clean axel requires a precise combination of timing, movement, and mental focus. Each phase of the jump—from takeoff to air position to landing—requires careful attention to detail.

FLEXAFIT’s approach involves a checklist methodology that ensures you’ve practiced and perfected each part of the axel jump. With this systematic method, we help figure skaters build muscle memory, so you know exactly what to do during every moment of the axel. This focus on technique ultimately translates to consistency and confidence, taking your axel from a challenge to a skill you can perform with ease.

Checklist Methodology for Consistent Jumps

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