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Summary: Ice skating competition tips. Learn how to become a better skater in this free online video lesson, including the basic edge exercise in figure skating.
Dmitri Olympiev was born in Moscow, Russia, and has been skating since he was 4 years old. During his 26 years of skating, he has had an extensive professional competitive career under...read more
"Hello my name is Dmitri Olympiev and I teach advanced ice arena in Florida, you can reach as on the web www.finearena.com. Now have you notice often skaters go around in a circle in different directions. For this they use edges, edges are called the side of the blade on each blade I have 2 sides, outside and the inside. Now I'm going to show you the basic edge, edging is very important and as you can see I'm able to turn on the ice by leaning towards the direction I want to turn. The more I lean the deeper my turn is, I can do the same thing using my inside part of my skates, this way I lean to the inside we'll be right back."
eHow Article: The Basic Edge in Ice Skating
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sk84eva said
on 8/2/2008 i would not let him teach my child.
phantomzero87 said
on 8/2/2008 Mr.Olympiev's clips are extremely informative, he simply answered many questions I had about doing these techniques and moves by watching his videos. His english is perfectly understandable and I would also like to thank Mr.Olympiev for making these videos. I benifited greatly from them.
And who cares about the looser who called him a clown,
really we should all feel sad for him, we are all here seeking information to better ourselfs and our lives and he obviously has no life If he dedicates time just to criticize random help videos on the web.
Get a life Looser
ravenskater said
on 8/2/2008 This guy is a legend in his own mind !!! After seeing his instructional series, on here I searched for him and found nothing on his "decorated skating career". Just as I originally suspected. Some of the people putting videos on here are quite comical really ! I think that old guy skating across the ice had trouble controlling his laughter !!!
anastasiya said
on 8/2/2008 Why you are saying that this guy is no good?! First of all, before judging his English, you should have at least some intelligence and don't say: "this guy", because "this guy" has a name, and his name is Mr. Olympiev. Secondly, you can't judge this coach just by looking at these video clips. All these video clips helped my cousin, and helped a lot, even her coach were so surprised. I want to thank you Mr. Olympiev for sharing these lessons with other people, and your English is excellent, you explaining very clear and very professional. Thank you so much!
evuser10565 said
on 8/2/2008 I just wanted to say a few things about the negative comments to your videos. I've posted this same comment under all of your videos since the haters have done the same thing, too. The negative comments seem to be coming from a small group of people--in fact, I say it's coming from just one person posting under different screen names. I would probably pay attention to the criticism if it were actually objective, coherent or constructive--but it's none of these things. Its only purpose is to slander you. Whoever is trying to paint you as a bad guy has done quite the opposite. He/she is full of vindictiveness and pettiness and clearly has a personal grudge against you. Whatever you've done to warrant this kind of treatment, whether you deserve it or not, is completely irrelevant and is none of my business. All that really matters is if your videos are useful and helpful or not. In my humble opinion, your videos have been a great help to me and I applaud you for that.