BobD Posted April 8, 2020 Report Share Posted April 8, 2020 (edited) This was on FB. I thought it interesting that if I were going through this course< I would would also always favor turning to the left. I'm regular BTW Edited April 8, 2020 by BobD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 Almost all dancers and figure skaters spin left. I don’t think it’s got anything to do with goofy or regular. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursle Posted April 10, 2020 Report Share Posted April 10, 2020 Dancers are trained and evaluated in some regards on how well they spin or rotate in various elements on each side. The same usually holds true for the footwork in figure skating (sequences often require footwork turns to rotate in both directions as a measure of difficulty/mastery, e.g. twizzles, counters, rockers, three turns, mohawks, choctaws.) For jumps and spins, right handed figure skaters rotate counter clockwise while left handed skaters rotate clockwise. This is because your dominant arm is stronger and is capable of generating much more power than the other. Allyson Way, former dancer and rehearsal director for the Cullberg Ballet Answered Jan 5, 2016 · Author has 1.1k answers and 734.3k answer views In ballet classes all moves are trained on both sides, so theoretically one should be able to perform all moves to the left and right sides equally well, with the same applying to turns in either direction. In reality however, most dancers will have favorite sides...one leg will be preferred for taking off for jumps, one better side for direction for turning, one side with easier and higher leg extensions. I suppose it has a relation to your dominant hand or foot (which may not necessarily be on the same side) and/or flexibility. But I have noticed more male dancers trained in Russia perform their big manèges (consecutive turns in a big circle) and preferring anti-clockwise. The body is never completely symmetrical in structure, which may explain why certain moves would become more comfortable on one side despite equal training. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Gendzwill Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 If you watch much figure skating you will see that they can rotate both ways for simple things only. As soon as they go for a big spin or jump they rotate one way only, and that way is almost always left (counter clockwise). If what you say is true and it is related to handedness then that jibes as 90% of people are right handed. Maybe some dancers can spin equally well both ways but I’ve watched a lot of dance shows (dancing daughter...) and it doesn’t seem that way to me. It’s always confused me because skateboarders and snowboarders must rotate both ways if they expect to win competitions. I asked this very question on Quora a while back. The best answer I got is that the speed of rotation required in skating is much faster than that for snowboarding. Mostly the answers were “don’t you realize how hard it is to land a triple or a quad?” https://www.quora.com/Why-do-figure-skaters-only-rotate-in-one-direction-during-major-jumps-and-spins-To-increase-the-level-of-difficulty-it-seems-they-should-be-expected-to-show-competence-spinning-and-jumping-in-both-directions-as-is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 All I know is Sunsurfer's toilet spins opposite of mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 While playing on a trampoline with my daughter, I learned I can spin much more reliably to the left (frontside for a regular rider) than to the right. I tend to go off-axis when spinning to the right. Not a cool X-Games-style off-axis, more like a flailing fall kind of off-axis... Maybe that's why I sucked at spinning tricks as I generally tried backside! Wish I had figured that out about 30 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 6 hours ago, lowrider said: All I know is Sunsurfer's toilet Thread doesn't necessarily have to follow a poop theme @lowrider ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 50 minutes ago, Lurch said: Thread doesn't necessarily have to follow a poop theme @lowrider ! Touchette ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottishsurfer Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 I'm that freak 1% of the population thats ambidextrious i dont have a perference for rotation direction to be honest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunSurfer Posted April 11, 2020 Report Share Posted April 11, 2020 8 hours ago, lowrider said: All I know is Sunsurfer's toilet spins opposite of mine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force "The theory that the effect influences draining water to rotate anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere has been repeatedly disproven by modern-day scientists.[9][10][11]" Lowrider - Knock, knock. Who's there? Europe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowrider Posted April 12, 2020 Report Share Posted April 12, 2020 Should this be the litmus test for antivaxers . If you continue to shake the very foundation I stand on I have no hope of surviving this pandemic. Lurch I'm disappointed you let me get away with spreading such falsehood and made light of my ignorance ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurch Posted April 12, 2020 Report Share Posted April 12, 2020 @lowrider better a man learn his own limitations than ending up with the spreader half empty & the barn half full! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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