This drill serves two primary purposes: Increase drive speed off the plate (a quicker drive). Help fix timing issues. Here are a few things she needs to work on with this drill: Her feet are not spaced properly. Use all 24 inches of the (a) plate. Get wide. Her feet are not spaced properly. There should be ALL 6 inches of the plate between her right heel and her left toe. Her feet are too close together. These are the two reasons she cant feel the centering part that happens naturally. Shes not starting this drill with 100% weight on her drive foot. The stride foot should be up on pointe to ensure it is not bearing weight at the start of the drill. Her rear foot performs a PUSH BACK but her front foot performs a step forward. Both feet NEED to travel rearward. This is why the right heel starts just barely touching the plate... this way she can PUSH BACK (step back) onto the plate... providing an object to PUSH BACK against. Her ankles do resist... but they should/could more than they currently do. Keep the heels of BOTH FEET completely off the ground during the 2 push back steps... so that the calf muscles are flexed completely.
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 10:49:21 +0000
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