As you get more comfortable/better, then you'll be able to smooth them out.
#Dance twizzle series#
But once you hit novice, bobbing up & down (ie, 3 turns) will get a big deduction, and maybe not even called as a twizzle (not sure how they'd actually mark it).īUT-when you're learning them, I've found it helpful to start out thinking of it as a series of 3 turns & let my knees help a bit.
They added a little side rule last year, giving some allowance for lower level skaters who are doing twizzles (to acknowledge the difficulty)-up through Intermediate you are allowed *some* knee movement as you do them, without getting points whacked off. They're really watching the blade to see if you're spinning or twizzling. But you do have to end up with a tracing which has pointy bits rather than overlapping loops, or it really is a travelling spin and that doesn't count either. I can't spin worth anything, which is probably why I can't twizzle either. Which is a shame for my hopes of ever doing anything worthy of the name, because I can (just about) do double 3s starting FI. The technical details on the solo ice dance qualifier forms (twizzles are a required element) explicitly say that continuous 3-turns don't count. And it doesn't seem to correspond with how good they are at other elements. It's funny, though, watching the kids - some can just do them and some really struggle. Can you tell how much of my skating time I spend squinting at the ice while my daughter demands, "mum, was that a spin or a twizzle?" If she's going to ask me, I figure I better know what the right answer is :) One of these days I'll even get some space to practice my own. But you do have to end up with a tracing which has pointy bits rather than overlapping loops, or it really is a travelling spin and that doesn't count either.and they have to go in a straight line, and if you're doing one foot then the other, the second foot's straight line has to be in the same direction as the first foot's.
and he (my coach) admires the dancer's ones, so. Sort of like backward double 3s - my coach says you ought to learn double 3s first before you start twizzles, but I find twizzles easier! His twizzles are very much continuous 3-turns, but those of one of our elite dancers resemble travelling spins. Similarly BO is like FO twizzle, only backwards. Well, the BI twizzle is like a FI one except that you start with a back inside edge, rather than a forward inside edge.
#Dance twizzle free#
Free arm and leg positions need improvement in the video. I had been skating for only 4 years when I made it. Here's a short video () from 2003 showing what I mean, but I'm not in the best of form. I then repeat the in-out-in step to vary the rotational speed. I've often done a version of a twizzle where I am (kinda) tight for rapid rotation, but then open up the arms and free leg to slow down for half a rev. The rotation begins with that motion for me. Step onto a RFI edge w/ bent knee and rotate the right arm in front, left arm in back opposite the right. To initiate a CCW twizzle, I begin with a glide on the left foot, right foot pointed in front, and the left hand extended in front, right hand extended to the side. I've used them as an entrance into a scratch spin - several revolutions twizzling, then step into the spin entrance from a RBO edge.
#Dance twizzle tv#
Now they are fairly fast, although not as fast as the TV skaters.
At first it was slow, and I was just getting in lots of repetitions of the back threes.Īfter a while though, I started to speed them up a little. I started practicing double-threes years ago as a method to learn back threes better.
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