How To Do Ice Skating Spins
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How To Do Ice Skating Spins
Learning how to figure skate well takes a combination of skill and grace. In order to perform sophisticated moves, however, one must master the basics. Figure skating coach Robert Burgerman demonstrates a basic ice spin that can be used as a foundation for more complicated maneuvers.
Okay, so now, we're going to learn how to spin on one foot, with the proper preparation coming from a backwards entry. Just so you're aware, left-handed people spin towards the right; right-handed people spin towards the left, which always gives you complete contrasts and opposite entries. So I'll show you the entry as a right-handed person.
Because I'm left handed, I'll actually conduct the spin the way that I do it. Okay, so you're right-handed. You're going to skate round in backward crossovers in a clockwise direction, holding onto a backward inside edge, rotating your body outside the circle.
Three or four back crossovers, looking into the circle, hold the back inside edge on the right foot, rotate round in order just to step forward back from where you just come from onto the forward outside edge. So doing your crossovers, round the circle, rotate outside the circle, step back from where you just come from, rotate round, pull in, and stop. Okay, so that was your basic entry and actual implementation of a spin on one foot.
There's so much more to learn about a spin: you got different variations, you can do combination spins, it's absolutely endless. But there are your basics. And that was how to do a basic spin on ice. .