Editing Figure skating (section)

===Spins===
{{Main|Figure skating spins}}

'''Spins''' are an element in which the skater rotates, centered on a single point on the ice, while holding one or more body positions.{{sfn|Petkevich|1988|p=127}} They are performed by all disciplines of the sport.<ref>S&P/ID 2022, pp. 103–105, 129</ref> As ''[[The New York Times]]'' says, "While jumps look like sport, spins look more like art. While jumps provide the suspense, spins provide the scenery, but there is so much more to the scenery than most viewers have time or means to grasp".<ref name="clarey">{{cite news |last1=Clarey |first1=Christopher |date=19 February 2014 |title=Appreciating Skating's Spins, the Art Behind the Sport |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/sports/olympics/appreciating-figure-skatings-spins-the-art-behind-the-sport.html |access-date=February 27, 2023 |archive-date=February 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227223225/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/sports/olympics/appreciating-figure-skatings-spins-the-art-behind-the-sport.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to world champion and figure skating commentator [[Scott Hamilton (figure skater)|Scott Hamilton]], spins are often used "as breathing points or transitions to bigger things"<ref name="clarey" />

Figure skating spins, along with jumps, spirals, and spread eagles were originally individual [[compulsory figures]], sometimes special figures. Unlike jumps, spins were a "graceful and appreciated"{{Sfn|Hines|2011|p=103}} part of figure skating throughout the 19th century. They advanced between [[World War I]] and [[World War II]]; by the late 1930s, all three basic spin positions were used.{{Sfn|Hines|2011|p=103}}

There are two types of spins, the '''forward spin''' and the '''backward spin'''.{{Sfn|Petkevich|1988|p=129}} There are three basic spin positions: the '''[[upright spin]]''', the '''[[sit spin]]''', and the '''[[camel spin]]'''. Skaters also perform '''flying spins''' and '''combination spins'''.{{Sfn|Kestnbaum|2003|p=280}}<gallery>
File:2020-01-11 Women's Single Figure Skating Short Program (2020 Winter Youth Olympics) by Sandro Halank–018.jpg|Camel spin
File:2011 Figure Skating WC Tomáš Verner (4).jpg|Sit spin
File:Elena Sokolova 04 NHK 2.jpg|Upright spin
File:Dominika Piatkowska & Dmitri Khromin Spin - 2006 Skate America.jpg|Pair camel spin
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-U1215-0046, Sabine Baeß, Tassilo Thierbach.jpg|Pair spin with woman in layback and man in sit spin
File:2012 WFSC 07d 843 Polina Korobeynikova.JPG|Layback spin with catch-foot
File:2011 Cup of China Yuzuru Hanyu.jpg|Biellmann spin
File:Joubert 09Eurosp by Carmichael.jpg|Death drop
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