Figure skating spin specialist Charyl Brusch continues a lesson with an advanced spinner, focusing here on unusual combinations and flies. (See the earlier parts of this lesson here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part3 and Part 4) Sometimes interesting spin development requires trial and error and a willingness to simply try some things that normally don’t go together. Charyl begins this part of the lesson by asking for a forward sit spin jump over to a back camel. This transition is extremely difficult to create enough rotational energy for the back camel to have any reasonable spin speed. Up next, Charyl asks for a forward sit spin into a death drop (to back sit). This is much harder than a forward camel into death drop because it cannot take advantage of the free leg swing and momentum.
The rest of the video has Charyl and the skater working on a forward sit spin jump to a back sit spin, and Charyl is looking for a specific timing and tuck. She starts by having the skater run in place on her toe picks while picking up her knees very high. On the first attempt, the skater leaves the body forward and doesn’t really extend upward for the jump between the spins. So Charyl tries some ideas for lifting the free knee close to the skating leg, although the skater struggles with too much focus on swinging the leg and hip around. Charyl recommends “standing all the way up” as a way to get aligned and focus on jumping straight up. She exaggerates this by asking the skater to come up into an upright for 2 full turns before the jump. This is obviously an experimental spin for this skater and a work in progress.
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