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, Part3, Part 4 and Part 5) In this part of the lesson, Charyl teaches a back sit spin jump to front sit spin. She begins by having the skater simply try jumping out of the back sit position, thinking about it as jumping straight up into a half loop. She encourages the skater to keep the free leg (non-axis leg) in front while coming up out of the skating knee.
After the skater jumps straight up and lands on a solid back inside edge on the non-axis foot, Charyl asks for the back sit jump to forward sit. As the skater takes off, Charyl wants the axis leg to “lift up in back and then come around to create a little bit more speed.” To make the transition, the skater opens her body, non-axis arm, and non-axis leg toward the non-axis side before landing with the axis leg stretched behind where it then comes all the way around as Charyl describes.
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