Team Spinners ...

[canbelto]

If the Olympic teams were being purely picked by the quality of a skater's spins, who would make the team?

Yes I know it's silly but whatever.

 

[Rukia]

Men's: Jason, Keegan, Deniss

Women's: Satoko, Bradie, actually I feel like a lot of the Eteri group spin well? (or maybe I just don't pay attention to their spins that well haha)

Pairs: The Gribbles...really theirs are the only ones I remember

 

[canbelto]

Men's: Jason, Keegan, Deniss

Women's: Satoko, Bradie, actually I feel like a lot of the Eteri group spin well? (or maybe I just don't pay attention to their spins that well haha)

Pairs: The Gribbles...really theirs are the only ones I remember

Trusova and Schcerbakova don't really. They;re not bad but nothing special. Aliona and Kamila do spin well. I think Alysa Liu has beautiful spins.

 

[canbelto]

Nathan wouldn't make the team either. His spins are okay but nothing spectacular.

 

[Rhumba d’Amour]

Men's: Jason, Keegan, Deniss

Women's: Satoko, Bradie, actually I feel like a lot of the Eteri group spin well? (or maybe I just don't pay attention to their spins that well haha)

Pairs: The Gribbles...really theirs are the only ones I remember

Sadovsky!

 

[canbelto]

Gracie Gold in her prime was an excellent spinner.

 

[Karen-W]

Nathan wouldn't make the team either. His spins are okay but nothing spectacular.

Who among the US men would beat him out? I agree on Jason but I'm not sure any of the other US men are necessarily better spinners than Nathan.

 

[canbelto]

Who among the US men would beat him out? I agree on Jason but I'm not sure any of the other US men are necessarily better spinners than Nathan.

Ilia Malinin?

 

[clairecloutier]

Karen Chen and Tarasova/Morozov

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Spinners:

Jason, Deniss, Grassl

Loena, Kamila, Karen

 

[Brenda_Bottems]

Ryan Jahnke
Todd Eldredge
Lisa Ervin

-BB

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

Of all time?

Lucinda
ANGELA
Dorothy
Denise
Alissa C
Nicole
Sasha
Shawn Sawyer
Stephane Lambiel
And a bunch of others I’ll probably remember as the week goes on

And I also give a shout out to Tonya Harding

 

[Karen-W]

Ryan Jahnke
Todd Eldredge
Lisa Ervin

-BB

Todd Eldredge was a fantastic spinner in his day.

Lucinda Ruh was also amazing.

 

[Vash01]

Scott Davis, Lucinda Ruh, if we are considering past skaters, and of course Denise Biellman.

Current ones-Valieva, Sinitsyna, Kostornaia, Karen Chen

 

[canbelto]

How about Johnny Weir? His spins were great

 

[clairecloutier]

If you add in former skaters, I’d say Patrick Chan. His camel spins, especially, were great.

I don’t know if he’s been mentioned, but Yuzuru Hanyu also has good spins.

 

[viennese]

Adam Rippon.

 

[screech]

Jeff Buttle was a fantastic spinner (when he was against Lambiel, I always thought that though Lambiel's spins were faster, Jeff's were more aesthetically pleasing).

For the current crop, definitely Keegan. I find him like Lambiel though - very fast spins, though I don't always love his positions (especially the hunched back sit spin). Jason Brown as well.

 

[briancoogaert]

Good spinners from the past, and not so famous :
Shawn Sawyer and Yannick Ponsero

 

[VGThuy]

Karen Chen is an excellent classical spinner, but she tends to lose a level on 1-2 spins in a competition, which confuses me because she's capable of getting all level 4s on them and has done so. Needlessly losing spin levels at 2021 Nationals is what caused her to win bronze instead of silver.

 

[Marco]

The US women's team would be Alysa, Mariah and Karen. All wonderful spinners.

The US men's team would be led by Jason by far, but sure about the others...

 

[AngieNikodinovLove (ANL)]

The US women's team would be Alysa, Mariah and Karen. All wonderful spinners.

The US men's team would be led by Jason by far, but sure about the others...

I would swap out Mariah with Amber, better layback and biellman

 

[canbelto]

Team Russia would be Kamila, Aliona and Daria.

 

[Impromptu]

If we can grab from both the past and the current day, Rohene Ward was always a fantastic spinner. Plus a team that included both Jason and Rohene would be fun to watch (and a social media opportunity).

 

[clairecloutier]

After watching him today, Mikhail Kolyada. His spins are pretty fast and also have very classic positions.