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RealtorGal

Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 27, 2003
I am so glad that difficult spins and spin variations are an important part of the CoP. I get such a thrill watching skaters like Alyssa Czisny pull off a beautiful, fast and varied spin combination. There were years when that aspect of skating seemed to slide into oblivion and I really missed it.

Sometimes skaters are so S-L-O-W in their spins that I just want to push them and yell "SPIN FASTER!"

Uncle Dick has always heaped tons of praise on a fabulous spinner.
:thumbsup:
 

R.D.

Record Breaker
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
Yoshie Onda during her SA freeskate was really slow. She was really struggling out there, esp. on her spins.
 

dlkksk8fan

Medalist
Joined
Jul 26, 2003
I didn't get to see Yoshie Onda SA skate, but I know form her past performances her spins were pretty poor compared to her jumping.

RealtorGal-I'm glad too that spins are becoming important again with the new scoring system. It's hard keeping a spin spinning fast unless it is well centered.
 

IDLERACER

Medalist
Joined
Jul 28, 2003
There will never be another Lucinda Ruh, but that's what everyone should be striving for.
 

CDMM1991

Medalist
Joined
Jun 3, 2005
IDLERACER said:
There will never be another Lucinda Ruh, but that's what everyone should be striving for.

Alissa's the closest we're getting these days. :rock:
 
Joined
Jun 21, 2003
I don't agree at all. The CoP does not particularly reward fast well-centered spins. A Dorothy Hamill blur spin (the most spectacular move in the history of figure skating) would only be a level one.

Instead, the CoP seems to reward a lot of weird and ungainly flailing, a la Johnny Weir or Emanuel Sandhu. I bet Toller Cranston wishes he could come back.

(Um, but what you said about Alissa, yeah. :) )
 

julietvalcouer

Final Flight
Joined
Sep 10, 2005
Mathman said:
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Instead, the CoP seems to reward a lot of weird and ungainly flailing, a la Johnny Weir or Emanuel Sandhu. I bet Toller Cranston wishes he could come back.

Yeah, word. What is with some of the weird 'head-between-your-knees' positions lately? The one I'm talking about is the one during Alissa's program at Campbell's where Peggy Flemming says something to the effect of "Ooh, I don't like that one." It's weird, it's ugly, and it seems to be done just to do something different.

*drags out DVD of the Mickey Mouse Club to watch Ronnie Robertson spin again. Holy crap, that man could spin. 420-480 rpm....the mind boggles.*
 

SK8LUVR

On the Ice
Joined
Oct 20, 2005
spins

I've only seen Emmanuel Sandu and Jeffery Buttle do that spin and I thought it was cool for men to do but women should stick to the pretty spins.
 

soogar

Record Breaker
Joined
Dec 18, 2003
Mathman said:
I don't agree at all. The CoP does not particularly reward fast well-centered spins. A Dorothy Hamill blur spin (the most spectacular move in the history of figure skating) would only be a level one.

Instead, the CoP seems to reward a lot of weird and ungainly flailing, a la Johnny Weir or Emanuel Sandhu. I bet Toller Cranston wishes he could come back.
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Well the skater needs to make the choice. Lambiel has said in an interview with BOI that he abhores ugly slow spins and he won't do them. I also notice that Lambiel does the simple spins extremely well and racks up high GOEs for them even though Lambiel tends to travel on his spins.
 
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