I need some clarification based on a group lesson this weekend.

Does the knee bend in a twizzle? How much? If you have the same up-down motion of a 3-turn, how is it different from a 3-turn?

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It's a little bent

Not the same motion as a three turn, it just...goes?

It starts like a 3-turn but the leg straightens after about the first half-turn. I tihnk it's about as bent as a backspin. The knee bends again to end the twizzle... I guess I never really thought about my knee before. I'm more concerned with keeping squaren during the twizzle and not toppling over (i.e. checking strongly...) when I end my rotation.

Exactly - I think about my shoulders

LOL, ooohhh you'll think about it alright, especially when that's all your coach harps about on the Argentine Tango. Why is that the only thing holding me back from testing this dance? (Coach says she won't put it out until my skating leg on the twizzle is straight. )

By definition the skating knee must be straight w/ no up & down movement for a twizzle to be a twizzle. It's in the rulebook that way. However, some leeway is given at the lower levels re. knee movement.

You'll see some teams doing twizzle positions that make them skate it on a bent knee (ie, Summerset & Gilles' catch-foot)--but there's still no movement of the knee for the duration.

Thanks all for the clarification That's what I thought- no up down movement in the knee.

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You should certainly finish your twizzle with a straight knee, however you start it. And I remember hearing Oleg Oksiannikov telling someone - in fact, I think it was COskater64, wasn't it? - that for multi-revolution twizzles you should start with a bent knee and finish with a straight one.

My big problem with FI twizzles is that I end up on my toe-rake so can't make them multiple. I used to be able to do one BI double twizzle, but haven't practised it for yonks, so probably can't now.

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