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Douglas Haw starts by explaining that your jump is narrow and the free leg and the arms work simultaneously. He then talks about stepping onto a box pivot over your right side. His idea is in all rotation you bring your arms in across your chest and centrifugal force will pull them to the side. In this 2 minute 4 second video lesson Douglas compares all jumps to a tornado it starts small then funnels wider. Jumps are similar your feet and arms get pulled out of the center axis of the spin tornado same thing in skating.
Douglas talks about your arms stopping in front and creates a feeling of a chin up, this is a very helpful tip.
Sarka –
I do like Douglas’ presentation and the arm position approach, just don’t quite understand the tornado concept. If I am spinning counterclockwise, wouldn’t the parts of the body naturally move in that direction as well? Looking forward to the explanation. Thank you!
Douglas Haw –
The tornado analogy to spinning….essentially you are correct…..all objects that have been “sucked up” into the tornado are spinning in the same direction. I was using the tornado concept to relate to spinning with fast velocity or fast speed of rotation. Regarding spinning counterclockwise…..your body parts pull away from the axis of rotation due to centrifugal forces therefore they do not naturally move in that direction. Your body parts must be held in tightly to keep them rotating in the direction of rotation…..therefore, in my opinion, they do not naturally rotate in that direction (it’s forced). To qualify my answer simply, view a picture of a skater caught in the air in their jump….their face is distorted and their buttocks are misshaped due to the centrifugal forces. This “picture” supports that the body parts “pull away” from the axis of rotation thus not naturally rotating with the direction of rotation. Hope that helps!!!