ONE FOOT SPIN – Ice Skating Spins for Beginners
Today we are going to master feet one foot spin hope you're ready for this one for our one foot spin let's start off with the basics we are going to work on an entrance exercise the focus of this is properly been keeping our chest upright our arm is tracing our beading foot.
Next let's focus on Sun during the spin which means spinning in one spot and not traveling or moving around the ice when you get into your entrance position I like to hold and stay upright for a few revolutions before pulling into my left foot spin let's focus on the beginner one foot spin position our thighs are going to be nice and tight the toes are the upright what is going to be adjacent to the heel of this videos yay let's try our one foot spin we are going to enter with crossover step in the middle of your circle start with the two foot spin when we are nice and bound slowly lift up one foot to that heel toe position we talked about earlier with who we're putting it all together notice I am taking three nice big crossovers stepping in the middle of my circle arms and Chesire up right I'm centering for a few rotations then slowly pulling my arms and legs in at the same time and of course don't forget that beautiful exit edge show off that awesome spin you just did [Music] we can enter a spin either with crossovers or an inside three turn make sure after we turn the foot our front arm and shoulder stays in front if our arm and shoulder swings back we are not checking a turn we are going to keep spinning and it will be quite difficult to enter our one foot spin for the scratch spin an advanced version of the one foot spin.
we are going to bring our free leg straight above the opposite leg knee pointing up and push down so our ankles are tight and locking no thigh gap and the arms are hugged tightly to our chest a fun spin variation is to push your arms up as you are spinning let's try these scratch spin try to Center for a few revolutions then slowly pull your arms and knees and at the same time keep your knee pointing upwards don't let it point out to the side the trickiest part of a scratch spin is centering so be sure to focus on the basics of centering if you're having difficulties some common mistakes are dropping the shoulder this will make us start traveling almost instantaneously another mistake is forgetting to center your spin here I lift my foot up right away and spin just take a nice deep breath focus on sunray spin for a few revolutions before moving your arms and legs here our foot is too high causing us to lose balance there is a gap between both of our legs lastly make sure your arms and legs come together at the same time
