Once comfortable with the illusion exercise, she moves on to a death drop on one of the rink’s hockey lines, starting with her blades aligned with the painted line in the ice, then crossing her right leg over her left to push, before stepping into the death drop. Notice how she keeps her left arm before her at all times.
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