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Practice tips: twizzles and back 3s.
I'm having problems with my twizzles and back 3-turns, for the very good reason that I can't get my weight far enough back on my blade to do either very well. Coach says that in twizzles, my weight needs to rock back and forth - but I simply don't know how to do it! He has tried to show me, but with singular lack of success.
Anybody any ideas?
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Hi Annabel
My problem is I know how to do these in theory but my mind simply wont let me, I have given up doing back 3 turns for the simple reason that I panic and end up falling on my tail bone which vibrates all the way up to my head and gives me headache, if I wore dentures I would have lost them many times!! Cheers Grace |
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On back 3's, try thinking of lifting your toe up during the turn, and rebend right after to catch your balance. Once you are comfortable with the back 3's, practice double 3's with no check in between, and as they get closer and closer together, they will become twizzles! (Hopefully!)
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What exactly are twizzles? Are they just alternating 3-turns without pausing in between?
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What exactly are twizzles? Borrowing from a post on Golden Skate Forum, twizzles are... "A travelling turn on one foot with one or more roations which is quickly rotated with a continuous (uninterupted) action. The weight remains on the skating foot with the free foot in any position during the turn then placed beside the skating foot to skate the next step. Twizzles are steps used in dance senquences (usually a free dance program)." Hey, by that definition, it means that when I travel on my spins, I'm not doing a spin that's not centered! I'm doing a twizzle!!! Yuk, yuk, yuk.... (Just kidding! Actually my forward spins are very centered lately thanks to a lot of work on my forward spin entries!!!)
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On the back 3-turn, you definitely need to feel like you're sitting down in a chair. But while you do this, check to make sure your chest is lined up over your knee, which is lined up over the toe of your skating foot. Also, wait until you've passed the bulge of that imaginary circle before turning.
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I like the "free foot in any position", because I've been experimenting a lot with this trying to determine what the "right" placing is.
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Casey, I do the same thing. When the 3's run together in one motion its a twizzle I believe. If you look at the print, it is not circles like a spin, but like 3's very close together.
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