Figure Skating Training Aids

Coach's Eye is an App made for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod that figure skating coaches have found to be a useful video teaching and training tool.

U.S. Figure Skating released a Skate Coach App series especially for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad in November of 2011. The series includes twelve different digital Apps that are available in the iTunes App Store.

Ice dance champion, Michelle Ford, has coached for over 30 years. Ford has developed Silent Coach, a figure skating training aid. The device helps skaters fix bad habits and reinforce muscle memory, and also makes it possible for skating coaches to not have to shout across a rink as they teach skating lessons.

The Silent Coach figure skating training aid makes it possible for figure skating coaches to not have to shout corrections across the rink as they teach skating lessons. This video shows the device in action.

The Ankle Buzzer is a figure skating training aid that makes a happy and pleasant noise when ice skaters make ankle contact if they cross the feet correctly in the air as they do figure skating jumps.

Champion Cords can help figure skaters with single, double, triple jumps, Moves in the Field, with spins, and with body position and posture. Beginning ice skaters find that Champion Cords can help with mastering basic skating skills.

Skate Spinner is a figure skating training aid that simulates the skating blade on the ice. Figure skaters can practice ice skating jumps and spins anywhere with Skate Spinner. This short article reviews the product.

This YouTube video shows the Skate Spinner figure skating training aid product in action.

Dartfish is a computer video analysis program that is used to analyze figure skating jumps and spins.

Sk8Strong Inc. has produced instructional exercise DVDs especially for figure skaters. The DVDs provide figure skaters with a comprehensive off-ice training program.

Sk8Strong Inc. has produced off-ice strength and core training DVDs especially for figure skaters. This YouTube video includes sample clips of the exercises that are on the Sk8Strong DVDs.

Alexei Mishin is Russian figure skating champion and the coach of 2006 Olympic Figure Skatign Champion Evgeni Plushenko and other ice skating champions. This article profiles Alexei Mishin and his figure skating training invention "Mishin's Magic Vest."

Mishin's Magic Vest allows a figure skater to hear sound signals if positions are correct while doing figure skating jumps. This video presentation shows Alexei Mishin's Magic Vest in action.

Sport-Tach™ is a portable, hand-held tachometer that is used for measuring rotational speed and the total number of rotations in figure skating spins and jumps.