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- May 16, 2017
I wonder if anyone can help me. I take lessons in figure skating and also spend many hours teaching myself. For about a year now I have been trying to master a spin with no success. I am at the stage of learning Flip jumps and backward three turns and manage to learn all those things with practice fairly easily. I can't even do a basic spin.
I am wondering now if my boots are too long for my feet. I have to wear a boot a whole size bigger to fit my feet.
Today I examined the smooth ice and noticed that no matter how hard I try on the spin, my boot does a little backwards move at the three turn and I look and the 3 turn into the spin has a small loop on it.
I also am finding that when I bring my leg around to spin (after the three part) I go flying forward onto the toe rake. No matter how hard I try it impossible not to do this.
Can anyone explain why a small loop is being formed. When I skate normal three turns they don't do this. Would the boots being a bit too long cause this. Does anyone know if it is actually possible to do spins in boots which are too big. I've no idea whether it is my technique or the boot. I tried another boot last week which seems to have a more obvious rocker on it and is a shorter length on me but way too wide. I could feel myself spinning on the rocker so imagine this maybe be caused by my boots being too big.
I am wondering now if my boots are too long for my feet. I have to wear a boot a whole size bigger to fit my feet.
Today I examined the smooth ice and noticed that no matter how hard I try on the spin, my boot does a little backwards move at the three turn and I look and the 3 turn into the spin has a small loop on it.
I also am finding that when I bring my leg around to spin (after the three part) I go flying forward onto the toe rake. No matter how hard I try it impossible not to do this.
Can anyone explain why a small loop is being formed. When I skate normal three turns they don't do this. Would the boots being a bit too long cause this. Does anyone know if it is actually possible to do spins in boots which are too big. I've no idea whether it is my technique or the boot. I tried another boot last week which seems to have a more obvious rocker on it and is a shorter length on me but way too wide. I could feel myself spinning on the rocker so imagine this maybe be caused by my boots being too big.