Figure skating spin specialist Charyl Brusch continues working with a skater on a variety of spins. In the previous videos the focus was on sit spin, camel spin, layback spin, back camel spin, back camel back sit combo, and broken leg sit spin. In this video, Charyl teaches the bullet or sit front variation and shares important tips for the forward inside three turn spin entry.
After the skater does a bullet, Charyl immediately focuses on the balance point on the blade. She says, “The good news is I think your position is good. The bad news is I hear it.” She addresses it by asking the skater to be patient on the entry to allow everything to time up correctly and be aligned, rather than simply muscling through it. She talks about timing the free side arm and free leg as they swing around, while getting the leg to swing around a little higher. She also mentions the need to align the “middle of the body over the skating leg and not the free leg” in the final bullet position.
Next Charyl focuses on the spin preparation. This skater is using a forward inside three turn prior to the step onto the forward outside entry edge. Skaters have a tendency to pull the exit of this inside three turn around the corner, creating excess rotational energy that makes a solid push onto the entry edge very difficult. The solution is to flatten the exit of the three turn and keep the head still and anchored. On the exit of the inside three turn, the axis side arm is back and the free side arm is in front prior to the step. The free leg should be fairly low as well.
After more attempts, the skater is still eager to muscle the hook part of the spin, so Charyl manually spins the skater from a still entry position. Then she has the skater enter more of an upright spin and then drop into the sit position, hoping this gives the skater more patience. Charyl likes this timing better and then works on the bullet position, asking for more ankle pressure (forward pressure into the boot) while keeping the hips back and slightly lifted. A very common position error during bullet development is letting the hips drop too much which leads to a rounded back that is not positioned correctly. Charyl draws stick figures on the ice to illustrate this idea.
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