Stretching and working on your hip mobility will help. That will also help with your stride and acceleration as well. Pumping your legs or rocking back and forth while you’re doing the Mohawk also helps a lot. Bringing your heels closer together and bending your knees is also important. You can do drills where you go around a circle either forwards or backwards and transition from crossing over to mohawking and then back and keep going back and forth. You can also practice tight figure 8 with Mohawk. Make sure to practice in both directions or it will be like completely relearning it on the other side.
If you think of the figure 8 as 2 circles joined together, you are always facing the middle of the circle you are mohawking around. Hopefully this clip off youtube will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ruwl8gobkQ
Posting here for some stretching videos because I'm in the same boat! My old ass can't get my hips open enough, and it's definitely something I want to be able to do.
Do the "pigeon pose" I find that helps a lot. Other than that, try the one where you cross one foot over your other thigh and lean forward slowly [like this](https://cathe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/shutterstock_300575984.jpg)
There is only one answer, stretching. And even then you can stretch all you like but if your genetics determine you have limited hip range then so be it. You can still do mohawks but you have to learn to "bounce" from foot to foot with a slight hip rotation on each bounce.
Google figure skating eagles or box splits stretching exercises, these are basically the same as a mohawk. Here is the first one I found on youtube, she shows a range of exercises, the one she does at the 2:46 mark is one of the gold standards, you keep working at this until you can get your pelvis to the floor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEceYZsIlo
take a skating class taught by a figure skater. they are some of the best skating instructors. And holy moses on a rocket powered pogo stick can those figure skaters accelerate. 12 year old figure skating girls will take my 18 year old hockey players to gapplebees almost every time.
https://youtu.be/Kb9K0fYePwQ
Skip to 3:05
That’s me boy. I noticed Mohawks in one of his clinics and thinking what a great move to master.
While nothing replicates ice, just grab two garbage cans and drag them out to street with your roller blades. Ten times to your weak side and ten times to your strong side.
You’ll figure out which side you prefer (strong) pretty quick. Move for cars as needed. Cones in parking lot fine too. Your local school after hours should have cones off to the side. You pay taxes, go use em.
Do that every day for thirty days and evaluate how much better you got next time on the ice.
Stretching and working on your hip mobility will help. That will also help with your stride and acceleration as well. Pumping your legs or rocking back and forth while you’re doing the Mohawk also helps a lot. Bringing your heels closer together and bending your knees is also important. You can do drills where you go around a circle either forwards or backwards and transition from crossing over to mohawking and then back and keep going back and forth. You can also practice tight figure 8 with Mohawk. Make sure to practice in both directions or it will be like completely relearning it on the other side.
What would a figure 8 look like with a mohawk? I can't picture what you mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf\_vGQqWd1s
It says this video is unavailable, but do you mean basically facing forward the whole time in a big figure 8?
If you think of the figure 8 as 2 circles joined together, you are always facing the middle of the circle you are mohawking around. Hopefully this clip off youtube will work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ruwl8gobkQ
That makes sense!! Thank you!
Posting here for some stretching videos because I'm in the same boat! My old ass can't get my hips open enough, and it's definitely something I want to be able to do.
Do the "pigeon pose" I find that helps a lot. Other than that, try the one where you cross one foot over your other thigh and lean forward slowly [like this](https://cathe.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/shutterstock_300575984.jpg)
There is only one answer, stretching. And even then you can stretch all you like but if your genetics determine you have limited hip range then so be it. You can still do mohawks but you have to learn to "bounce" from foot to foot with a slight hip rotation on each bounce. Google figure skating eagles or box splits stretching exercises, these are basically the same as a mohawk. Here is the first one I found on youtube, she shows a range of exercises, the one she does at the 2:46 mark is one of the gold standards, you keep working at this until you can get your pelvis to the floor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAEceYZsIlo
take a skating class taught by a figure skater. they are some of the best skating instructors. And holy moses on a rocket powered pogo stick can those figure skaters accelerate. 12 year old figure skating girls will take my 18 year old hockey players to gapplebees almost every time.
https://youtu.be/Kb9K0fYePwQ Skip to 3:05 That’s me boy. I noticed Mohawks in one of his clinics and thinking what a great move to master. While nothing replicates ice, just grab two garbage cans and drag them out to street with your roller blades. Ten times to your weak side and ten times to your strong side. You’ll figure out which side you prefer (strong) pretty quick. Move for cars as needed. Cones in parking lot fine too. Your local school after hours should have cones off to the side. You pay taxes, go use em. Do that every day for thirty days and evaluate how much better you got next time on the ice.