Project Águila
Coaching on the Mohawk (also known as the eagle stance) with Carolina Miranda, documented across three routines and seven video sessions.
Project Águila is the first course built on the ARCO Learning System. It documents the learning process of a single movement — the Mohawk, also known as the eagle stance — from its initial assessment all the way to its execution on skates, through the coaching of Carolina Miranda and the practice of participant Pablo López.
The course is not a collection of loose tutorials. It is organized as a connected library: eight findings that explain what is happening in the body, three progressive routines to retrain hip, ankles, core and proprioception, and seven videos that serve as documentary evidence of the process. Every exercise points back to the findings that justify it and to the concepts that support it.
A skater who arrives here will find the same material the practitioner had available, in the order it happened. They can read the diagnosis, understand why the hip governs the knee in external rotation, follow the routines week by week, and watch the exact moments — with timestamps — when the coach identified each correction. The goal is not to imitate a video, but to understand a movement from its biomechanics, its practical experience and its audiovisual documentation.
Diagnosis
The Project Águila diagnosis begins with an assessment session in which Carolina Miranda observes Pablo López attempting the eagle stance first without skates and then with them. The coach analyzes the gesture along six dimensions: endurance, mobility, flexibility, placement, balance and direction. From each one a precise reading emerges of what is already present and what still has to be built.
In mobility, the joint aperture is there but does not translate into control. Hip rotation leans on compensations from the ankle and the foot, and the ankle, in turn, cannot abduct or adduct in isolation without dragging the knee along with it. Limited flexibility in hip and ankles — common in male bodies for morphological reasons — defines from the outset where the work has to concentrate.
In placement, the hip appears in anterior pelvic tilt: it falls behind the line of the torso and knees, forcing the torso to compensate forward and into flexion in order to hold the stance. The error does not lie in the knees, but in the muscular strength and joint freedom of the hip. Proprioception, then, is proposed as the pathway to return control over each segment to the body itself.
In endurance, the body can reach the position but not hold it long enough to move on skates. It appears as the program's primary area of opportunity: strength has to be increased along the parameter of time, and it has to be done with external load to simulate the weight of the boots. Balance, by contrast, is already an available capacity; what is missing is the integration of active management of the center of gravity and weight transfer between legs.
In direction, the coach reserves judgment: she prefers to explore possibilities before giving a closed answer, because while the body's focus is still on holding the stance, the question of which leg chooses the course and which one holds the rotation cannot be answered with clarity. From that analysis emerge the eight findings that structure the rest of the course.
Process
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Assessment
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First review
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Application on skates
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Second review