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omg i need help with my camel. this is what i do. i go into it fast and then as i am parrel to the ice i usally fall on my face. i need help and my coach says the same thing but she is mean she dosent show me somethimes. lol but tips help pages would be nice before this friday bc i have training.
THANKS
skitttles

plz answer if you know the answer.

Answer 1

Camels are hard!!! I hate them.......flying camels are a different story, but the camel and I have been enemies for a long time!

One thing that helped me get steady on camels was (assuming you're a righty) when you do your back inside edge, bring your left arm across your body and touch your right shoulder with your left hand (with your elbow up). It kind of looks like you're saluting from your shoulder. When you step into your spin, reach your left arm out and let it "pull" you into the spin. Your head/eyes should follow your left hand. It sounds weird, but it gets you a better step and position getting into a camel.

When stepping in, sink way down on your skating knee and then rise up on your knee quickly, but make sure you don't rise too far up on your toe.

Also keep your free leg level with your upper body with a straight knee.

I hope some of this helps! :)

Answer 2

Yep, the camel spin can be hard to learn initially . . . there are so many things to think about when you're doing it. It's a balancing and timing thing, more than the other spins. It's almost as if everything isn't in place at the right time, you will be thrown out of the camel spin.

If you're falling forward, your skating foot may be a bit far back . . . it's not right under you . . . you are probably going up on your toe. You gotta find that sweet spot on your blade to "spin".

Don't lean forward. Keep that head (chin up) - don't enter the spin with your head down looking at the ice. Do not kick that freeleg up in the entrance (the camel is not about trying to do a high spiral) as that may throw you forward as well.

Make sure that back is arched - VERY important - and that your shoulders are not going towards your ears.

For me, building up stomach muscles helped a lot. I did low spirals on the floor on a bent knee - and came up on it slowly to build up the leg muscle. I think I also tried doing a camel spin on a bent knee (without rising up) until I found that sweet spot - and eventually I got the whole timing thing worked out once I "got" how to spin.

Hope that helps!!

Answer 3

You might concider getting a new coach if the one you have now is "mean". I spent a great deal of time and money with my coaches. If their attitude effected my ability to learn than they would be gone. There are many more coaches out there. Dont feel obligated to stick with one! As for your camel. It sounds to me like you have a problem withat that toe pick of yours. You need to find that "Spot" You will fall many times untill you do. Arch your back, center you weight on the ball of your foor. Hope that helps for you. In the mean time concider talking to your coach or hireing a new one. I went though several different coaches untill i found the right one.

Answer 4

I'm working on my camel too. It's hard, but I havn't fallen on my face yet. How do you set up for it? I do three backward crossovers, then I skate on a left outside edge (that's the one where you lift up your right foot right?) and then I just go into it! I havn't been working on it very long though. Good luck!
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Answer 5

oh, thats sad! i'm not being sarcastic, i really mean thats sad! what kind of coach wouldn't care!?!? well actually my old coach never really cared either, he didn't even do the tricks right himself! but now my new coach at my new, bigger, better, newer, popular rink, is like way nicer, shes soooooo helpful, she actually does one on one communication with you on the ice! she is like the best coach i've ever had!!! anyway, sry but i'm like still way in alpha level, so i don't know anything about camels yet, but i DO know how they look! so maybe you can try tilting your body ever so slightly to the back so you can be level with the ice, don't try to be so parallel cuz it seems that paralleliness is making you fall on your face! so try that and be more level with the ice than parallel! and if that doesn't work, heres some links!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yO-O6y5Jzhc

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hDdKNlkCHWw&mode=related&search=figure%20skating%20flying%20camel%20spin
so try to be exactly level to the ice like she is!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wBvadb4K6WU&mode=related&search=figure%20skating%20flying%20camel%20spin

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5-E64BSN50

Answer 6

fix it......srry i couldnt help you but just figure it out.