Birthday Spin

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A few years back, the adult daughter of one of my skating friends posted a video of herself doing a spin on her birthday. The idea caught my fancy, and I decided to follow her lead.

Last September, I was slowly amping up my skating after shoulder surgery. You may not think that skating requires a lot of upper body strength, but it very much does. An important predictor of a female skater’s ability to complete triple jumps is her upper body strength (being under 30 and very well-trained helps, too). Mine wasn’t a brilliant spin, but it was centered and clearly recognizable as a spin, so I put my version up on Facebook last year.

This year, I’m stronger, more fit in general and I’ve been skating a bit more. My fantasy was to have a more complicated spin this year, and that hasn’t happened. Perhaps next year.

Here’s this year’s version: Thanks to Coach Nancy for filming!

Happy 62nd Birthday to me!

6 thoughts on “Birthday Spin”

    1. Happy late birthday, Steph! I think your spin looked absolutely perfect and graceful! And considering how you and I tripped through our gangly high school years, Graceful is a wonderful accomplishment! (Which some of us have yet to achieve…) Love the “spin if I want to” song, too. Although I may be less pleased when that song is still going through my head in 8 hours. Ha! Hope your birthday was great.

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  2. Happy birthday! And although you made the spin look very easy, I suspect there’s plenty more to it than meets the eye! I think I’ve only ever been on an ice rink once or twice, I imagine it was more Bambi than beautiful in my case!

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    1. You’ve had a lot more running miles than I have, and I’ve had more skating miles than you. Both of us have options for improvement. And yes, you’ve recognized a significant feature of skating (along with gymnastics, diving and dance in particular) It involves making something that is very difficult look easy.

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June 2017: I started writing Curioussteph.com with this: By day, I'm a retired family physician turned body-oriented psychotherapist. I garden, travel, am owned by 2 elderly cats, figure skate and am training for my first triathlon. April 2020: Three years later, the two elderly cats have crossed the rainbow bridge, and we now have an 11 year old adoptee, Ziggy. I'm done with triathlon and skating for the time being, and I am still physically active, running, biking and walking. It's now the time of the coronavirus, which is affecting us all.