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Can anyone help me understand why the Chinese pairs always seem to lose levels on their death spirals? I loooove Sui and Han's skating but it feels like their death spirals always get level 3s, max.
What is proper death spiral position for the girl?
Sometimes they have a very arched back and are high off the ice versus other times they are more straight-backed and are very close to the ice. I’m no expert but these seem like very different positions.
Lady’s “low position”: - for inside Death Spirals the lowest hip or buttock and head should not be higher than her skating knee; - for outside Death Spirals head should not be higher than her skating knee and bodyline between knee of skating leg and head should be flat or shallow arch.
Can anyone help me understand why the Chinese pairs always seem to lose levels on their death spirals? I loooove Sui and Han's skating but it feels like their death spirals always get level 3s, max.
What is proper death spiral position for the girl?
Sometimes they have a very arched back and are high off the ice versus other times they are more straight-backed and are very close to the ice. I’m no expert but these seem like very different positions.
I really like Vanessa and Morgan's spiral, which I can't describe so here's a video:
https://youtu.be/dFqc_9-ah5I at 4:02
I don't care for the back outside spirals, the look inelegant to me!
I also really liked V/T's one: https://youtu.be/pISpVbrsP9o at 2:52 I thought that leg kick thing of Max's was super cool.
I'm also a fan of when the man does the dramatic arm thing and also when they used to change hands whatever happened to those?
I too wanna see the day when the lady spirals the man, that'd be epic!
Xiaoyu yu has a unique position among the athletes these days, her arm movements are glorious.
https://youtu.be/pk5t8OAVUNo
Mishk/Dmitriev had a gorgeous death spiral combo in their Liebestraum program. Flawless.
I think I remember Jenni Meno doing some pretty awesome death spirals too.
I LOVE that one with the split in the middle, and really that entire ending is so beautiful. And here is Meno/Sand's back outside/forward inside combination, which is also lovely. This Meno/Sand program reminds me that pairs skating didn't always feel so rushed. Programs of the past had more space to breathe! (Just before the death spiral is their signature lift - nobody does that dismount anymore, and I miss the days when one position could be held in a lift because it wasn't about levels).Is this the one where she does the splits on the ice in the middle of the element?
https://youtu.be/UpKHpIC6Yn0?t=326
Is this the one where she does the splits on the ice in the middle of the element?
https://youtu.be/UpKHpIC6Yn0?t=326
Holy moly, that is one wicked death spiral sequence. I like how Artur just casually picking her back up where he left her lol, and she finished with some sort of Bielmann death spiral.
Holy moly, that is one wicked death spiral sequence. I like how Artur just casually picking her back up where he left her lol, and she finished with some sort of Bielmann death spiral.
Holy moly, that is one wicked death spiral sequence. I like how Artur just casually picking her back up where he left her lol, and she finished with some sort of Bielmann death spiral.