AboutDianne DeLeeuw Expertise I can answer questions about figure skating, choreography, ISI or USFSA. Also questions about competing (my Olympic experience or your own competition). I`m a National referre for ISI. Recently I also have been appointed a National Technical Specialist for US Figure Skating. But remember I am not your substitute for a coach! They can see what you are doing! To correct or instruct you on manuevers is really not what I want to do.
Experience Experience: World Champion and Olympic Silver Medalist, coaching all levels of skaters at in California. I coach all levels and ages of skating from tiny tots to adults, first timers to International competitors. I also do choreography, music editing, teach specialty classes and give seminars.
Organizations: USFSA, ISI, PSA, Los Angeles Figure Skating Club
Publications: Recreational Ice Skater, The Edge
Awards: 1976 Olympic Silver Medalist, 1975 World Champion, 1976 European Champion, 6 time National Champion, US and Canadian Double Gold Medalist, 1999 ISI Great Skate Award, 2002 Woman of the Year
Question *Sigh* For a while I had a perfect scratch, where i spun in a perfect circle and made that beautiful swirl on the ice. Then i progressed through a sit spin, camel, back sit and back camel, and suddenly my perfectley centered spin has disapeared. I don't just travel a little, i travel over 5 feet, sometimes falling off my edge alltogether. Gah!! I know my coach has been telling me "your lifting your right sholdour" and "your (free) leg is too much to the side", but no matter how hard i think of correcting those two things i can't get a centered spin! I know sometimes i can feel my right hip actually come up and over as i bring my leg infront for the spin, is this mabey a problem? My coach also said once that i was "rushing" into the spin" I'm just so frustrated that my spin is so uncentered, any advice would help.
BTW, I was considering buying one of those spinners, do those help?
Answer Hi,
Your coach sees you and offers the best advice. Take a longer, slower entry. Try the scratch from sit spin, sometimes this helps. Another thought could be did you have a bad sharpening or are your blades becoming flat from sharpening??
Spinners help some peoplr but be careful it can fling you off. My students get an Everlast twist board for about 10 dollars. We bought them at drugstore.com.
Good luck,
Dianne
