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Here's Sasha in a Y. The turnout of her leg is remarkable. Scary.
http://www.sashafans.com/media/gallery/2006nationals/long-ap4.jpg
Now let go, and you'll have it!
Here's Sasha in a Y. The turnout of her leg is remarkable. Scary.
http://www.sashafans.com/media/gallery/2006nationals/long-ap4.jpg
She was spinning, actually. Don't think that would be possible, even for Shizuka.Now let go, and you'll have it!
No one yet has done a Charlotte Spin.
A good line is very important in figure skating IMO and flexibility, in general leads to a good line. However, there are skaters with good lines and weaker flexibility, like Lepisto and Phaneuf as have been mentioned and skater with good flexibility and weak lines, Mira Leung comes to mind. She has excellent flexibility, but she doesn't hit many nice positions.
No one yet has done a Charlotte Spin.
Finally a poster who is not awed by spirals and dragging legs up so the feet get to overhead. (However, it looks good in Tumbling and Gymnastics.)Exactly! I'm not a fan of contortionism. I'm a fan of good line, and flexibility helps to have good line but so does extension (eg. pulling up the knee, pointing the toes, the energy is extended).
Finally a poster who is not awed by spirals and dragging legs up so the feet get to overhead. (However, it looks good in Tumbling and Gymnastics.)
Good line is of the essence for a dancer on or off skates
btw, has anyone thought of the flexibility one needs to do a proper sitsspin?
wow i would never thought flexibility is needed there, i could imagine quadriceps and biceps strength..of course i dont skate so just what it looked like from outside.btw, has anyone thought of the flexibility one needs to do a proper sitsspin?
Interesting... During Worlds we had a discussion why so many men have decent sitspins - and so many ladies haven't. The muscle strength needed for it explains that pretty well.Sit spins require quad and hamstring strength, but no real flexibility.
Not solo, but I think that a lot of the female pairs have done a charlotte spin with the male partner straddling them a la Dmitriev/Mishkutenok. I don't have access to youtube at work so can't get the links. He also did them with Kazakova. I think Pang & Tong and the young Chinese team did versions of the spin at worlds last year too.
Ant
Interesting... During Worlds we had a discussion why so many men have decent sitspins - and so many ladies haven't. The muscle strength needed for it explains that pretty well.
Try doing a sitsspin without bending your knees. The definition of flexibility is being able to bend. When someone is in Rehab, they work on flexibility on any injured part.Sit spins require quad and hamstring strength, but no real flexibility.
Try doing a sitsspin without bending your knees. The definition of flexibility is being able to bend.
Well, yes...but I can bend my knees. My elbows, too. I do not consider myself to have extraordinary flexibility on that account.
I cannot raise my leg over my head, with or without hand assist. I just tried it. I can only get about a forty-five degree split. Not flexible enough.
I can also touch my toes although it is easier after a few beers.
i think flexibility is something you earn in young age, the youngest the better, and you conserve a percentage of it as years go by, as long as you exercise it once a while. I dont know if you can manage to increase your range of motion and bring your foot to your ear, no matter how you practice, once being an adult.
try few more beers and you might end up like this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Sasha_Cohen_charlotte_spiral.jpg