Inside spread eagle | Golden Skate

Inside spread eagle

Weathergal

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mrrice

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Weathergal said:
Nice!

When I saw inside spread eagle, I instantly thought of Jonathan Cassar, who has an awesome one! I apologize as I can't figure out how to copy a YouTube link with a timestamp from my tablet as I can on my desktop, but:

https://youtu.be/pkrsfNnOsFE



His outside spread eagle starts at 3:44 with the inside spread eagle to follow. Great to watch!
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Absolutely beautiful Weathergal. You know who has or, I guess I should say had since he's retired, a really nice inside spread eagle is Eman Sandhu from Canada. I'll look for clip. BRB

Well, the audio is blocked here in the US but this is the year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZFbvEAMKvg
 
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4everchan

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well ... as an inside spread eagle, it lacks glide and stretch... as a transition before a quad, it's exquisite. I am one of the few who prefers the spread eagles executed as glorious moves, in isolation, not combined to jumping passes.
HanDomi said:
well I guess the most ridiculous use of inside spread eagle goes to Hanyu to jump 4S from it
https://youtu.be/USLUuaw0ZDU?t=68
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Sai Bon said:
They look great! I'm not a skater, so can somebody enlighten me - are they hard to do?
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Mostly the ability to do spread eagles at all has more to do with the natural structure of one's hip joints than with skating skill. Some beginners can learn them fairly easily because their hips happen to be built the right way, and some very skilled advanced skaters can't do them at all because their hips happen to be built the wrong way. Most skaters will fall somewhere in between and will need to spend some time practicing and stretching before being able to accomplish their first successful spread eagle.

In general inside spread eagle would be easier than outside, and a deep lean/curve would be much harder than a flat straight line or almost flat shallow curve.
 
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gkelly said:
Mostly the ability to do spread eagles at all has more to do with the natural structure of one's hip joints than with skating skill. Some beginners can learn them fairly easily because their hips happen to be built the right way, and some very skilled advanced skaters can't do them at all because their hips happen to be built the wrong way. Most skaters will fall somewhere in between and will need to spend some time practicing and stretching before being able to accomplish their first successful spread eagle.

In general inside spread eagle would be easier than outside, and a deep lean/curve would be much harder than a flat straight line or almost flat shallow curve.
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Thanks for the explanation. Cool when done well like other tricks easier for some and more difficult for others.

And thanks to Sai Bon for asking :)
 
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