Learn a Spin on Ice in 4 Easy Steps!

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Have you ever wanted to learn a super fun, impressive move on the ice? You can impress your friends with this two-foot spin! Whether you are an aspiring figure skater or simply heading into the rink looking to impress your friends with a cool trick, this will be a great one for you to learn. In this video, British Figure water Kristen Spours shows you 4 simple steps you can learn in order to get your one foot to learn a two-foot spin on the ice. This is a great one for beginner figure skaters to learn as it will create a base for learning more advanced moves in the future.
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[@aleceaalridge7280]

This helped so much. Tried it this morning and got my best spins ever.

[@Kristina-rk8vm]

Was that ur first time trying a spin?

[@olivia-xs7yo]

I’m going ice skating this friday and i’m beginning to take lessons in February! I will try this!

[@Stellarainn]

How is itgoing

[@olivia-xs7yo]

@@Stellarainn it’s going really good! I can already do a 2foot spin and slowing going into 1foot spin! and i have my waltz jump and bunny hop!

[@Stellarainn]

@@olivia-xs7yo thats amazing!!

[@wyntafidow2062]

​@@olivia-xs7yoI'm going on Sat (sorry I'm late) hope u had fun!

[@user-uc3ym8qo1d]

I'm going to the ice rink with my mom later today and I'm dying to try these! I've been wanting to start figure skating for about two years now and now I'm taking lessons! So exited to try these tricks once I get there. Thanks for the help!

[@nikolettajenner]

how did it go? hope you had lots of fun!

[@TheLarryBrown]

0:15 Look how coach spins on single skates as she demonstrates marching in a circle. That looks like a cool exercise/skill in itself. Also she uses what I am learning is an oft used pose, which is standing on one foot and placing the other foot behind the calf. If you don't know that pose you may not be able to recognize it here because she is alternating the feet quickly, but sure enough she is doing that. that's the kind of subtle stuff that can make you look like a pro rather than a bumbler.

[@Folklore-evermore1987]

Love seeing Kristen on here! More please 😙

[@rob23062007]

She’s awesome, can we please keep her

[@chasegordonn]

Amazing and very simple way of putting it! Thank you and bless you!

[@josephlawson1540]

Thanks!

[@marshmallowmonstergames1170]

THANKS SO MUCCHHHH! I THINK I FINALLLY MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPIN! TYSM AGAIN IM SO EXCITED AGHHH ♥

[@edenkumai678]

You do it so good!

[@tomharris195]

How do you stop your feet from crashing into each other? Is it a centering thing? Whenever I practice, my feet crash into each other because they're spinning separately and their little circles collide. I'm definitely keeping my feet close together and have even tried with them actually touching each other to see if that was the problem, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm a clockwise spinner, too, so sometimes in class I just get mixed up with directions and what everyone else is being told to do vs. me.

[@giavo4538]

There is one foot one the ground and the other doesn’t not, it barely touch thr ground for other one!

[@armyonce6962]

try slightly pointing your toes inwards, like towards eachother

[@traceywilson06]

Great video Kristen, I watched you on the BBC 3 documentary, it’s good seeing you join Ice Coach Online

[@TheLarryBrown]

Great video.

[@koreymayo8884]

Thanks for the help. Now I need to practice this until I perfect it!

[@janko11225]

Thanks that the best vldoe in my life

[@zockzockeryq50]

great video

[@themangochannel]

Great job at the World championships! Loved that you got Level 4 on the step sequence 😊

[@forgetmelosingyou]

Thank you!! Everyone told me it was ONLY on the balls of your foot and not ball+heel. I was wondering why my two foot spins were so wacky!

[@TheLarryBrown]

I'm not so sure. High profile instructor Coach Julia instructs on the balls of both feet, and she's pretty much the last word.

[@Mirily]

Just found your channel and as I'm watching this I'm like ...that looks a lot like the Link Centre... Didn't actually notice it say Kristen is the 2007 Swindon Open Champ at first!! 😅🤦‍♀️ Tbf it's changed a bit since I was last there!! Spent many a fun hour down that rink as I grew up, we're lucky to have it in the town!

[@TheLarryBrown]

0;20 Coach inadvertently misleads us by telling us to turn our feet out like a penguin. That's may be the correct advice for the marching in place, but not for the spin. When she spins she has her feet perfectly straight and parallel to each other, toes pointing directly ahead, neither turned out (like a penguin) nor in (like a pigeon). Coach doesn't mention it, but while spinning her right skate is positioned ahead of her left skate. The arch of her right foot is adjacent to the ball of her left foot. That would seem to be a critical point. She also doesn't mention that the feet should be close together but not touching. When spinning, the right foot is moving forwards (towards the toes), and the weight should be on the heel, as if you were skating forwards. The left foot is moving backwards (towards the heel), and the weight should be near the toes, as if you were skating backward. Spin demos at: 1:00 (4 revs), 1:24 (5 revs), 1:45 (7 revs).

[@koreymayo8884]

My add and ocd just went nuts. I think after I watch 10 more times I'll finally get it lol!

[@stabbityjoe7588]

thms up

[@Origine869]

Love your vids there so helpful 😊

[@hectorfabiandelabarra7235]

Thank you baby!

[@Iris_241]

I am going to an ice rink today and I only know my two foot spin but I wanna learn a 1 foot spin

[@TheLarryBrown]

Hmmmm....can't wait to try this. Coach Julia teaches it different than this. She doesn't mention weight on heel and she says to put your feet in a pigeon toe position for the spin, while you spin with your feet straight. Who's right?

[@Jasmine-ge2xv]

Coach julia never helped me bc she’s to professional so she just teaches as if it’s so easy

[@TheLarryBrown]

@@Jasmine-ge2xv Well I'm sorry about that but you could sure say the same thing about this "easy and fun to impress your friends" video that purports to teach you spinning in only four easy steps in under three minutes.

[@kw2080]

@@TheLarryBrownmy 4 year old has been building on each of these steps progressively about 8 months and has it pretty good now. Definitely not 3 minutes of learning though for him. Lots of hours with a coach.

[@EvelynChayna-ho4ry]

If this works I’m gonna be so happy

[@charlottewilliams4894]

Been trying to get a 2 foot spin (just 2 turns) for the last 6 months I just cannot seem to get any sort of momentum 😢 to get round twice.

[@nekocat12]

I tried it for the first time yesterday. Got it on first try 😅🎉 third try fell on my butt lol 😂

[@trinityharrison939]

Hello! I'm just getting into ice skating, are there any skates that a beginner (who's only really looking to skate casually) should buy? I've seen enough to not trust rental skates.

[@Aalovley]

Hi! I’m 9/10 and I just started to iceskate years ago but could only go in the winter and I’m a begginer and I can do some swizzles but I prefer my own and not rental skates, it’s free if you have baught skates for us here.

[@Lokitty-vk6xj]

I have the jackson ultima Mystiques mark II and they work very well for me!

[@sara-gi6ol]

im using jackson 450 so good and cheap for beginner

[@m0chafrappe22]

Kirsten?!?!! She’s one of my coaches At my rink

[@Rzz301]

Tysm so helpful! :) Btw just wondering why it's important to fold in ur arms?

[@chipstealer.-.]

I’m guessing for speed

[@user-up1be5ho6c]

does this work on rental skates?

[@TheLarryBrown]

Yes, but it will be much harder than on your own skates. You can't get anywhere in rental skates. If you are serious enough to try to learn to spin, you need to buy your own pair.

[@benlund1717]

Can you do it on hockey skates?

[@mechez774]

That's not allowed. No.

[@benlund1717]

Really?? I really wanted to try 😬😍

[@soude85]

@@benlund1717 Yes of course, you just can’t use the ‘toe’.

[@TheLarryBrown]

Yes, but because you don't have the long heel blade you are more likely to fall backwards, something you don't want.

[@user-qb6nb3rm4o]

1:43

[@jayjayheinz8552]

how do you stop spinning? i tried this morning and just fell everytime to stop spinning.

[@TheLarryBrown]

Um.....wait until you slow down? It's not like you're going to crash into the wall just spinning.

[@sp4celess328]

I dont have a toepick :(

[@phoebeex]

i still cannot do the pivot

[@TheLarryBrown]

The pivot really isn't a good entry to a two foot spin, so forget about using the pivot and enter in some other way. You can enter with an approximation of a pivot without technically doing a pivot, and that approximation is actually a better entry. A pivot means you stick the toe pick in the ice. That may be hard for some to master, just skip that. The problem with entering a two foot spin with a pivot is that your left foot will be spinning in place on the toe, leading to a similar motion in the two foot spin, i.e. spinning on the left toe like a ballerina, but that's the wrong motion for a two foot spin and will hit a dead end as you try to improve. You will travel and slow down and get less than 10 revs. The proper motion is for the left foot to be SKATING BACKWARDS (not spinning on the toe in one place) in a small circle and for the right foot to be skating forward with the same size circle. Both feet should be doing the same thing, skating a small circle and both feet should be doing it the same size circle, and in fact it should be the exact same circle, with both blades tracing the same circle in the ice. You want both feet skating a circle around a point on the ice midway between the feet, directly under your torso. You don't want to be spinning on a point under your left toe, that will cause your right foot to skate circles around that point and that just won't work as needed. The pivot does not encourage that. Instead, keep the left blade flat on the ice, maybe put the weight forward on the blade but DON'T stick the toe pick in the ice...that's harder. Bend the left knee (that's important), then skate the right foot in a swizzle as shown in the video. As the right foot swizzle starts the spinning motion, rise up in that left knee and you will naturally go into a spin motion. You should feel that left blade skate backwards. This is not a pivot, because you didn't put the left toe pick in the ice, but it's similar to a pivot but it's easier and also allows the left foot to more easily start that backwards skating motion, which is critical. Better yet, just move on to what Coach Julia calls a "proper entry," by using a hockey glide and skating a half heart shape entry. Any effort you expend on mastering a pivot type entry is better spent on the proper entry. The proper entry has two advantages: 1: It naturally gets that left foot to skate backwards, and 2: it forces that left foot to do a 3-turn to enter into the spin and you need to master that for the entry to the one foot spin, meaning that is effort that will pay you back double.