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Summary: Learn from our expert how to do a salchow, a fun and exciting ice skating jump in this free skating video on doing advanced ice skating jumping.
Charlene Johnson-Dodge is a professional ice skater who has been skating competitively for eleven years. As an amateur competitor in both ISI and U.S.F.S.A fields, she won countless...read more
"Hi! I'm Simone Fisher and I'm here at Clearwater Ice Arena in sunny Clearwater, Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, we're going to introduce to you some advanced figure skating jumps. We now Victoria on the ice and she will be demonstrating a Salchow jump. With the Salchow, the take off is going to be on the back inside edge of one foot. She's going to make on rotation in the air and she will be landing on the backward outside edge of the other foot. Here she goes. She's taking some back crossovers into it. She's getting into her position. She'll be going around and out. She's going to do one more. That's it. That is a Salchow. It's always important to hold that landing position and she did. "
eHow Article: The Salchow Ice Skating Jump