My coach suggested hat i get skate spiners to help with my scratch spins. Has any one used them? Does it really help?

I have used one. Save your money! They didn't help me with my spins at all.

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They can help. But you have to be careful, because of the nature of the thing. You don't really want to be falling on it if you do fall. And also, if you do fall off it, you don't really want to injure yourself on the ground or anything else that surrounds you.

i bought a skate spinner and ihave not been too impressed with it, it gets me dizzy when i use it and it does not help in training the entrance of a spin -that which i need most of the help with. i recommend to save your money and use the money you saved for practice on ice.

Or better -- a coach to show you how to spin. (Now THAT worked better than the spinner!!!)

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Waste of money

I have one and I didn't get much use out of it. It helped a little with the dizziness aspect of spins but for the most part it was only really good for throwing me into furniture. The thing that helped my one foot spin was the conscious decision to practice them every time I got on the ice and to go back to two foot spins. Now as far as the sit spin goes...I got nothing.

Check out this thread.

BTW, the "Search" function on the dark blue bar is useful for questions like this - it gets you answers much more quickly.

Here are the results of searching for SPIN TRAINERS:

http://www.skatingforums.com/search.php?searchid=114548

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Agreed, its practice on the ice.

My coach doesn't want to see me two-foot spin anymore. So I practice the spin entrance and scratch spin everytime I get on the ice.

Now if I go back to a 2-foot, it's very easy and very centered. If I hadn't tried to progress to a scratch spin my 2-foot would probably still be a mess.

If you do want to try a spinner, you can make your own for less money. I posted a link or instructions from the link (I don't remember!) here a few months ago....I may still have it, but I can't find it at the moment. Try a thread search.

I agree with the others. It's great fun but pretty useless.

Save your money for lessons

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Found it

http://www.skatingforums.com/showthr...678#post270678

The link given in that thread for a home-built spinner was for an older web server I once used. It's no longer active, and I've moved the spinner-making instructions to a new server at:

http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~schneidw/...e_spinner.html

BTW, it's fun to try, but it's not exactly like a spin on real ice. I still have my spinner (as pictured in the link above) however it gets no use.

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Thanks, Bill.

You could always use it in the middle of the table for a lazy suzan.

Heh heh --the woodworking is a little rough for that, but it's a splendid idea!

Maybe we should devise alternative uses for unused skate spinners...

How about a stand for a potted plant that needs to be rotated to get the sun properly?

A base for a stuck globe?

A sobriety testing device?

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I got mine for my birthday last year, and my dad used it to decorate my cake. He put the cake (on a clean platter of course) on the spinner on the counter so that he could easily access all sides of the cake.

That's funny. All the different uses for a skate spinner. I tried one and it scared me too much. I practice spins a lot on my kitchen linoleum floor. In my socks. Especially my backspin!

I practice entrances to spins on my kitchen floor too- after a few revolutions though I stop them so I don't fall. I find that a swiffer cloth under my feet helps me do a "real" 3 turn, where I have to fake it with socks

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Helps clean the kitchen floor too! (Sorry, couldn't resist...)

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That's how I figured it out. I couldn't find the broom handle

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last time I used mine was to practice falls while taking out the garbage.
Lyle

I think we're related. I drove my mother crazy with that trick - she was terrified that I was going to crash into something.

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You should have seen Husband, me, and another skating friend (in her 60s) practising 3-turns on the floor in the church kitchen the other Sunday.....

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Hi sorry if this question has already been asked. But to those of you that have a spinner, im considering getting one to help with centering and balance, what spinners do you have? and could you link me to a picture of them so i can compare and find which is the best for me

I tried some friends' spinners, and i was always flying off of it. I agree, the linoleum floor is great, i learn and better my backspin and working on axel some. But there was the time i fell really hard on my butt and th whole house shook! ha ha, but it's still safer imo, than that crazy spinner thing!

Spinners suck for all foward spins. Backspins can get a lot better though. My spinner made my backspin amazingly better.

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