A skater lands every jump clean in practice, run-throughs look great — and then, twenty seconds from the end of the free skate, the same skater starts two-footing landings and losing speed on step sequences. It happens to competitive kids and to adults training toward their first Adult test alike. Parents (and adult skaters themselves) assume it's focus. It's usually physiology. A two-time Olympic coach breaks down the two energy systems that power a program, why free skates are punishing on purpose, and how off-ice training should actually be structured to fix a "fades at the end" problem — at any age.
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