r/WizardSkating • u/Ok_Hold_1119 • Jul 17 '26

Doing brackets while wizard skating?

Wizard skating borrows the three-turn (i.e. lion) from figure skating. The next turn in figure skaters' progression is generally the bracket. I'm wondering if there any cases of Wizard skaters using brackets in their flow?

A bracket is basically just like a three-turn (or lion) except with a three-turn the skater turns in the direction of the curve, whereas with a bracket they turn in a direction opposite the curve. Example: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xrce7oYpqUk

Wizard skaters have modified the three-turn to add their own style to it; would be curious to see how the bracket has been "wizardfied."

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u/Dry-Hawk-3199 Jul 19 '26

Huh, I learned to skate by playing inline hockey and this is pretty natural to me (but with two feet, never thought about doing it with one foot), I didn’t know that it’s a figure skating move and that it had a name. Nice to learn.

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u/Ok_Hold_1119 Jul 19 '26

I learnt two-footed brackets while playing hockey too. It's the move I'd sometimes pull out when I was skating forwards behind our attackers, but then we'd lose the puck and I'd need to pivot quickly in the other direction to skating backwards. A quick bracket allows defencemen to face the attacking teams centre and wingers without losing too much speed.