Author Topic: How long does it take to learn a double toe loop?  (Read 559 times)

freshlimejuice

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How long does it take to learn a double toe loop?
« on: November 04, 2022, 08:59:55 pm »
I've been practicing off ice double toe loops and almsot landing them everytime but how long does i normally take to do them on ice?

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Re: How long does it take to learn a double toe loop?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2022, 12:48:29 pm »
What jumps are you landing cleanly and consistently on ice?  What jumps are you working on, on ice?  Also relevant - age, athletic ability, how often you skate, how often you have lessons, what else are you working on in skating, how long have you been skating, how long did it take you to get single axel?  What does your coach say when you ask them this question?  Anyway I would say that whatever answer we give will be more or less useless and this is probably not even a question worth asking.  If you want to do a 2T, just work on it, and it will come (or not) when it comes.  I suppose you could argue that you might want to know in case you think your coach is no good, but honestly that's unlikely and not worth considering unless you can see other skaters with different coaches progressing more quickly - but even then, it may be that they are more talented or work harder than you do.  I don't think working to arbitrary time limits or comparing yourself to others* is helpful.


* - compare yourself to others in terms of do you work as hard as they do, have the same good attitude, what can you learn from them, not in terms of how quick the progress is.  I've been skating 17 years and I am pretty hopeless, but I enjoy it.  If I compared myself to others who progressed more quickly than I did (like my kids) I would have given up long ago.

WednesdayMarch

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Re: How long does it take to learn a double toe loop?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2022, 09:33:11 pm »
How long is a piece of string?
Returned to the ice in Sept 2017 after a major leg injury in 1999. Skating in Jackson Elite Pro & MK Vision Syncro. Still scary after all these years.

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Re: How long does it take to learn a double toe loop?
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2022, 10:32:22 am »
How long is a piece of string?


Indeed.  Probably about as long as it takes to learn a double toe loop  :)


Someone once asked me how long it takes to learn to skate.  **Sigh**.  Goodness knows why they thought I would "know" as I'm a complete swamp skater, to quote the great Frank Carroll.



 

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