Bellman spin is one of the most famous movements of figure skating-it is also the first action named after a person. This is a straight rotation, a variety of backward rotation. When rotating with one leg, the skater pulls the other leg up and stretches the foot from the back to the top of the head. According to the rules of the International Skating Federation, the action of "the height of the floating foot skates pulled up from the back should exceed the top of the head, so that the skates are above the back of the head" is called Bellman's rotation. The free leg can be stretched to various degrees.
In 1981, the Swiss figure skater and ISU World Figure Skating World Championship champion Denise Biellmann made this kind of spinning action very popular and named it after her. Nevertheless, Bellman is not the first person to invent this kind of rotation.
Former Soviet figure skater 塔玛拉·布拉图斯 (Tamara Bratus, renamed Tamara Moskvina after marriage) is one of the first players to regularly perform spin training One, she later became a successful double figure skater and coach. She said that she was inspired by gymnasts while spinning.
Nevertheless, Bellman has made many breakthroughs in this kind of rotation that requires high flexibility. In 2002 and 2005, ISU World Figure Skating Championship 伊瑞娜·斯鲁茨卡耶(Irina Slutskaya) became the first player to perform Bellman's spin by changing feet.
slutskaya, 2006
Russian player Julia Lipnitskaia (Julia Lipnitskaia), American player Mirai Nagasu (Mirai Nagasu) are very famous Bellman spin master. Most of the Bellman spins are performed by female players, and individual male players can also perform, such as Russia’s Evgeni Plushenk and Japan’s Yuzuru Hanyu.
Yuzuru Hanyu is one of the few male players who can make a Bellman spin.
In addition to the regular Bellman rotation, there are some actions that are considered to be variants of the Bellman rotation.
Cross-grab Biellmann : Use the opposite side instead of the ipsilateral arm when lifting the floating foot. The arm on the same side can either carry the knife or assume other postures.
Half-Biellmann (half-Biellmann, also known as catch-foot camel spin) : This is a swallow spin, where the player holds the swallow posture while holding by hand Floating foot skates, lift the floating leg up. Whether a rotation is counted as a variant vertical rotation or a variant swallow rotation depends on the way it enters the rotation and the posture of the body.
Swallow rotation
Now, Bellman rotation is very common. With the introduction of the ISU evaluation system, it has become a feature of difficulty. Therefore, most female players use Bellman spins when doing backward spins. Even when the players start to overuse them, the use of Bellman spins is restricted.
Text/Comprehensively organized according to ISU official website, Baidu Encyclopedia, etc. Figure/ISU official website
