That's what I've heard. This season you will see a lot of girls doing the Biellmann on the first edge and holding it until after the change of edge, then letting go of the leg and going into the standard arabesque spiral position.

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"You don't have to put an age limit on your dreams." - Dara Torres, 41, after her 2nd medal at the 2008 Olympics

I was chatting with another skater yesterday who can do a COE spiral and I explained I can do COE attitude pretty easily, and she suggested I try taking the attitude COE and gradually working it down into a spiral position.

Big difference between the very upright position of an attitude compared to the body parallel to the ice position of a spiral, and it felt and looked very unattractive, like a lot of people do when first learning spirals. I said as much to her, and bless her soul, she practised with me, doing exactly the same ugly position, I'm sure that was so I wouldn't feel so bad doing it.

I think it will lead to improvement if I stick with it and gradually bring it down to the spiral position.

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Karen

I skate - therefore I am

I got a GREAT tip from my coach today on COE spirals. I did FI to FO, and she said to keep my free leg a little out to the side in the inside edge as you transition to outside, and make the inside edge a bit flatter, otherwise you get "stuck" in the FI spiral position. I managed several decent looking FI-FO COE spirals with that tip in mind, though I still dropped the free leg a bit at the transition point - but that's just a practice issue.

I agree about the free leg to the side part on the FI edge. I would then think about moving the free leg to the other side during the change to help with the edge change.

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