All posts tagged "Haley Sales and Nikolas Wamsteeker"
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Canada’s Gilles and Poirier snag Skate Canada title
2019 Skate Canada Free Dance Canada’s Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier danced their way to the top of...
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Hubbell and Donohue dance to lead at 2019 Skate Canada
2019 Skate Canada Rhythm Dance USA’s Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, took the lead in Ice Dance as...
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Weaver and Poje win third national ice dance title
2019 Canadian National Figure Skating Championships Free Dance Kaitlyn Weaver and Andrew Poje, who won two national...
Did You Know?
The backward outside death spiral was invented in 1928 by Germany’s Charlotte Oelschlägel (August 14, 1898 – November 14, 1984) and Curt Neumann (although it was first performed with the skaters holding both hands and the woman not fully lowered toward the ice). They performed the first one-arm death spiral in Budapest in 1928.
Canadian pair Suzanne Morrow and Wallace Diestelmeyer are credited with being the first pair to perform the element in competition at the 1948 Olympics.
Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov (USSR) are credited for creating three versions of the death spiral: Cosmic spiral (backward inside), Life spiral (forward inside), and Love spiral (forward outside).
Who does your favorite death spiral? Discuss here!
