How to Do Mohawk Exercise in Figure Skating

A Mohawk is two-foot turn used in figure skating. This turn allows you to easily change direction on the ice by simply shifting weight from one foot to the next. The edge you skate on never changes throughout a Mohawk turn. If you start on the inside edge of one skate, you finish on the inside edge of the other.

Instructions

    • 1

      Glide forward across the ice on the inside edge of one skate. Keep the other leg, your free foot, lifted off the ice. Travel in a clockwise motion if you are skating on your left foot. Use a counter-clockwise motion if you are skating on your right foot.

    • 2

      Bring the free foot directly next to the skating foot and turn it out until it makes a 90-degree angle, perpendicular to your skating foot. The heel of your free foot should point at the middle of your skating foot.

    • 3

      Place the free foot down on the ice and shift your weight to that leg.

    • 4

      Lift your original skating foot off the ice by bending your knee.

    • 5

      Turn your body straight in line with your new skating foot. You should glide backwards on your new skating foot, traveling on the inside edge.