LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Gav · Last edited by Gav on Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:09 pm; edited 1 time in total

http://www.videodvd.ch/Videoclips/Skatetrixclip-Worlds-Fastest.avi

This is the Swiss guy who won the World Champs marathon. Thats some pretty good technique!

Some other clips also here http://www.skatetrix.ch/Visuals/Clip-Download_index.html

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4106

Yes very impressive! He won Berlin this year isn't that right?

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5913

Nice slow mo. Really helps to see what he is doing and to understand some of the stuff Eddy was teaching about putting the foot down straight and then under carving. Still not got my head around the mechanics of it though.

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

He did win the Berlin this year.

My favourite clip is of Nathalie doing her figure skating at what seems like a train station.

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

I found this when i was reading on Plyometrics..

http://www.bont.com/news/featurearticles/landtraining/landtraining.htm

The videos are good.

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4106

Yes very good Farhana! Those are the land training exercises I've been talking about. I'd rate the most painful one as the low walk, do it for more than a minute and I get tears of pain in my eyes.

I'd have one suggestion - if you're not currently doing plyos and want to start this stuff, I'd strongly recommend you take the beginner session and do less than a quarter of that. Definitely warm up properly, and warm down and stretch too. That's because these exercises are incredibly intense and have a correspondingly high chance of injury if you do too much too soon. Even with less than a quarter of the exercises for a beginner, you will likely feel very sore a few days afterwards.

I'd worked my way slowly up to a beginners session twice a week, and I think Gav made the intermediate workouts, but they are seriously tough. I plan on doing more weights and more plyos this coming season, I got a lot of benefit from doing them this year.

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

I did look at these exercises and panicked cos my knee has been in pain over the last few days and these exercises don't look very knee-friendly... Ouch is the word that springs to mind.

It will be my first time doing these so I willl most defintely have to follow your advice. Thanks for that.

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5913

And the low walk is every other one. These look really interesting something practice over the winter. Looks like they mostly develop power and explosive power at that but very interesting. Sort of skaters Tai-Chi. Smile

Alastair · Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2004 12:44 pm Subject:

Also, they tend to be rather noisy so if you are in an upstairs flat thing about your poor neighbour downstairs!

Farhana · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 259 Location: Surrey

Christophe · Joined: 26 Feb 2004 Posts: 1650

greazer · Joined: 07 Oct 2004 Posts: 330 Location: Haarlem

Roger Schneider is the world record holder in a time under 1 hour.
He's not the world champion, that's right. But winning in Berlin is not bad I think! Wink

Andy.
(not new to speedskating, not new to forums, not new to speedskatingforums, but...) New to Londonskaters speed team forum. Very Happy

Natasha · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2973 Location: Basingstoke

I love it! Nice and slow so I can finally see what all the fuss is about...

JonRBUK · Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Posts: 47 Location: Essex, England

Thats Right Roger Schneider isnt World Champion, Although He's quite capable! in fact he won the 2003 European Marathon Championship in which he broke the World Marathon Record.

Cheers

Gav · Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:10 pm Subject:

Oooops, well I was reading their website too fast. Topic subject changed accordingly Wink