Favorite non-jump/spin move

[sk8er1964]

Get some skate tape (http://www.rainbosports.com/shop/site/product.cfm?id=3ADB5459-D5BE-CDF8-24D086DAD612B49F)and put it on your boot. Keeps the polish from coming off.

[waltz_jump]

I really like doing Y spirals. I can do them on the floor no problem but it was only in the past year that I had the guts to try them out on ice :) I was really shaky in the beginning but in the end it is true that the faster you go, the easier they are. I am trying to do my catch foot (not biellmann) spiral now on ice but it is more difficult.

[gkelly]

Hm, there are three posters in this thread who have named themselves after jumps. Do we have any posters named after non-jump/spin moves?

I am so old and creaky that Y spiral = groin injury. I tried working on it a few years ago. Could get a decent position at the boards and was just getting brave enough to try it while moving -- position was more like an L than Y. But I had to give it up before I mastered it.

[waltz_jump]

^^

I was surprised this name wasn't taken yet! :lol:

I really want to learn the Biellmann spiral but i don't even know how to go about working towards the back/shoulder (?) flexibility for it. I dont know if age is a factor neither, the little kids I see seem to just be able to pull up from behind and that's it.

[Doubletoe]

Get some skate tape (http://www.rainbosports.com/shop/site/product.cfm?id=3ADB5459-D5BE-CDF8-24D086DAD612B49F)and put it on your boot. Keeps the polish from coming off.

Yes, very important if you're donig lunges or Ina Bauers! Although only an inch of the sole of my back boot comes in contact with the ice on my Ina Bauer, it has scraped enough to remove the waterproofing and allow water to seep in, so I re-waterproof and skate tape it several times a year.

[Lilith11]

Ina bauer. I adore this move, especially Shizuka's!

[sk8lady]

Back hydroblades, inside and outside.

[viennese]

hard to decide...

steps you learn w/ the early ice dances, the swing rolls, progressives - those continue to be really fun. just the essence of gliding on ice and skating with a parter.

[skatemommy]

Falling leaf. Sasha's is to die for. Trying to teach it to a CW skater, I look like a dork. I had one perfect blade mounting once in my life that allowed me to do the layback outside edge Bauer. Never been able to duplicate that mounting sadly.:wuzrobbed

[jjane45]

Hmmm I should also add shoot-the-duck, the dominant LFO one could nearly go all the way around the rink now. Coach is joking that the sit spin will be something to watch for, LOL fingers crossed.