What's your favorite spin to execute?

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IcyBallerina

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• May 16, 2005

• #1

Combinations don't count in the poll, just position. But go ahead and post your favorite combination, and any comments, too!

Just recently I've gotten the hang of the layback, and I can go back far enough to see the boards behind me. If my position is steady enough, I can use my free leg to accelerate! The biggest step forward was after I sprained my wrist falling on it- amazingly enough, getting hurt was what helped me get over the fear,

 

Last edited: May 16, 2005

icy fresh

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• May 16, 2005

• #2

My favorite is the layback. I have a lot of variations (about 4 positions in total). I like it because it's the most prettty spin to perform and for people to watch. I also like doing camel and donut spins, but I like laybacks more. haha.

 

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Skate@Delaware

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• May 16, 2005

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I can do the scratch (barely), but I love to watch a beautiful layback!!!:thumbsup:

 

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kayskate

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• May 16, 2005

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Layback has been my fav to do for yrs. I also love to do back camels, especially layover ones.

Kay

 

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sk8er1964

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• May 18, 2005

• #5

Anything I can get into from a jump -- flying camel, death drop, flying sit.

 

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MannyisHOT

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• May 23, 2005

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I love doing sideways leaning spins! i wasnt sure if it was considered a layback but i voted for other!

 

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screech

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• May 27, 2005

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When I was a skater I loved sit spins. I guess that was because I got super low on my sit spins, both the forward and back sit. My absolute favourite though was doing travelling 3s into a back sit.

I also liked doing laybacks, because I had great arch - flat back (though my free leg wasn't stunning) but I always got compliments on it, especially how literally one week my laback was hideous (no arch, horrible leg) and the next week I had a flat back. Nobody understood the change (even me).

 

singerskates

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• May 28, 2005

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Right now my favorite spin to try to do is a forward catch foot spin where my foot is half way up my back. I'm trying to one day get it to be a bielman.
My next favorite spin to play with is a broken leg spin. I do my broken legspin in combination with a regular forward sitspin which proceeds it.

 

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nicole_l

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• May 29, 2005

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I love doing laybacks, but a close second is flying camels.
My least favorite spin is the flying sit.

 

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obsessed_over_kalan

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• Jun 4, 2005

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I'm not that advanced spin wise, or jumps wise either lol, only have up to a lutz, but I love the sit spin, because I can get down so low, and my leg almost completely straight, wtill working on that. I've never actually tried a layback*gasp* but I think I might on wednesday, even though I don't expect to get that far with it lol.

 

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Summerkid

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• Jun 6, 2005

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I'm with Nicole on the laybacks and flying camels. I'm working on grabbing my blade from the flying camel up. My least favorite is a back sit spin.

 

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Perry

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• Aug 21, 2005

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Sit spins variations -- a sit spin into a catchfoot, and a back inside sit.

 

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Skater_Kid

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• Aug 25, 2005

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laybacks cause they are so pretty and fun to do!!!! :yes:

 

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Spiral_Marty

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• Oct 3, 2005

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I can't wait til I'm able to do a layback, they're just too awesome! Biellmanns too, I love to watch those.

 

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julietvalcouer

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• Oct 21, 2005

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Right now? Any one that doesn't leave me in a tangled pretzel on the ice! (Don't ask. I don't know how I did it, either.) Since I'm only doing MIF and dance, though, I probably am not going to end up doing many at all.

 

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princess-ice

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• Oct 28, 2005

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I'm learning how to lift my leg straight up towards my face like Sasha Cohen. The more I do it, the better it gets -- and it's really fun too!!

 

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spongebobsk8r

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• Oct 28, 2005

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I like doing sit spins and all the different things you can add on to them. They are awesome!

 

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screech

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• Dec 10, 2005

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For me (when I skated) its a toss-up. It would be between sit and layback. For my layback I was absolutely horrible at it, then when I was abotu 13 all of a sudden I could do one. I was always told how gorgeous the arch was that I got (though my free leg was never too stunning), and it was just fun for me to do.

Then there's sit. I was one of the rare few who was low on both the front and back sit (actually lower on the back half). I think my absolute favourite spin to execute though would have been running threes into a back sit.

 

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sk8fanconvert

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• Dec 10, 2005

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laylack!!

A traditional layback done properly with a turned out leg & pointed toe. Sasha & Angela do the best. Michelle could never do one. SK8addict

 

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peachy

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• Mar 14, 2006

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I was at a seminar today and we worked on flying sit spins, and now this is my new favourite spin!!