Figure skating spin specialist Charyl Brusch works through a variety of change foot spins, focusing on the change from forward spins to back spins, including “jump within a spin” options. She begins with camel change camel, and Charyl explains the process of placing the free toe into the ice (“almost pigeon toed”) and performing a back pivot up into the back camel. There should not be a lot of motion with either the arms or the upper body.

Next Charyl has the skater perform a “camel jump camel” or a forward camel flying camel. A common error in this transition is dropping the free leg while preparing for the fly. Instead Charyl wants the skater to keep the free leg high and simply move it sideways to initiate the fly. This skater tends to drop and pull the non-axis (left) arm early on the camel and Charyl wants her to lead with that arm and simply leave it there much longer on the spin entry.

The next transition is the camel into death drop. Although Charyl does not comment on it (because the skater does it correctly), in this case the free leg does indeed drop in preparation for the death drop. Charyl wants the skater to land on the toe pick on a straighter leg to improve the death drop transition to the sit position. She explains how the death drop counts as a difficult entry for the sit, and this skater uses a sit forward variation to gain another level. The final spin in the video is a camel flying sit and here the skater lands in a sit side (broken leg). Watch how the skater again drops the free leg to prepare for the fly into the sit.

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