Talk:Death spiral (figure skating)
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[edit] Edge Confusion
Some thing that this article confuses me is this sentance:
| “ | Death spirals can be performed in all four variants of inside/outside and forward/backward edges. | ” |
Is this the man's edge or the ladies edge? Gary van der Merwe 15:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
Seems to me that not only is this article missing a description of the "four variants" as mentioned above, but also an explanation of why this move is called the Death Spiral would be nice. Such as, has someone ever died while preforming it? --Lab Dragon 18:32, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
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- Gary, it is the ladies' edge that defines the spiral. The man is always in a back outside pivot unless he is also performing a variation.
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- As for the name, the Protopopovs invented three other spirals, though the names did not stick and I couldn't find the origin of "death" spiral:
- http://kitsapsun.com/news/2006/Dec/24/ludmila-and-oleg-protopopov-keep-skating-on-and/
- "Completely self-taught — Oleg choreographs their routines and Ludmila makes the costumes — the Protopopovs were the first skaters to perform side-by-side jumps and invented three spiral moves: the life spiral on the forward inside edge of their skate blades; the love spiral on the forward outside edge; and the cosmic spiral on the backward inside edge." Vesperholly 06:18, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
