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Summary: Get tips on doing two-foot spins on ice skates, and keeping your ice skating spins controlled, in this free ice skating video lesson for figure skating beginners.
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Charlene Johnson-Dodge Charlene Johnson-Dodge has been skating since the age of six and soon realized her dreams of becoming a professional ice skater. She has been skating in shows... read more
Hi I'm Simone Fisher and I'm here at Clearwater Ice Arena, in sunny Clearwater Florida. On behalf of Expert Village, hi my name is Bill Shanks and I'm going to demonstrate a Two-Foot Spin. When you?re doing a two-foot spin it's very important to keep everything up and together as though as there's a string pulling on top of your head. The mistake a lot of people make is to drop a shoulder and look down throwing your center of gravity off, and causing your spin all over the place. So your going to start with pivot position bring everything with your arm and leg coming in together, and going around, the quicker you bring it in and the tighter, the faster you can go, now here it is.