Help, Canada Needs a Spin Doctor
Will someone please get our Senior women a spin doctor! With the exception of Joannie Rochette’s solid spins, the spinning in last weekend’s Nationals was appalling. In an effort to pick-up more points in the new scoring system skaters are inserting more positions into their spins. It sounds like a good idea, but their basic spinning is so poor that adding positions only draws attention to their lack of speed and very mediocre basic positions.
I remember training jumps over and over again and relegating spins to the end of the session when you were too tired to train them properly. Evidently not much has changed.