Figure skating spin specialist Charyl Brusch continues working with a skater on spin entries. In the previous video, the focus was on the sit spin. In this video, Charyl is teaching details for the entry to camel spin. After the skater’s first camel spin, Charyl wants to improve the entrance edge and reduce the inside edge of the spin itself and asks the skater to “put a little more pressure towards your third toe.” Notice that Charyl wants the skater to keep the skating side arm in front longer which forces the skater to ride the edge rather than flip too soon into the spin.
To improve the outside entry edge, Charyl has the skater think more about creating the edge from the knee down rather than leaning with the whole body. After another attempt she goes back to basics and has the skater do a basic forward outside three turn. She wants the skater to exit the turn with the body “right over the skating foot.” Unsatisfied with the three turn, Charyl then has the skater simply hold a forward outside edge without a turn. She says, “When you do the turn I want your foot to do the turn and not your body.” Together they work on more details before Charyl pulls the skater into the camel spin. The goal is the hold the deepening outside edge longer rather than releasing into the spin too soon.
Next Charyl demonstrates how forward outside loops are another way to think about a forward spin entry. She says, “I want you to think of heading into your spin as if your’re going to do a forward outside loop.” She draws the loop tracing onto the ice with a marker and then demonstrates how to skate it. She then shows how it relates to the spin entry. She explains, “You’re going to go all the way in… as if you’re going to continually go forward, roll to the ball of the foot, and start your spin.”
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