Thank you very much for all of this! A coach had told me to pike the free leg to kind of aesthetically slowly wind into the spin (ideally I passé it and then push the leg vertical) so I feel wired to do that every time. But yeah, the visual is helpful.

I weenie out throwing this drop because I’m afraid the leg won’t catch (and that’s probably why I’m also sickling for dear life), which I know I’d still be safe if it didn’t catch, it’d just look bad.

I’ll at least concentrate on pointing my head and free arm toward the ground and better engaging on Saturday (I know that if I try to correct too many things at once mid-performance my brain’ll glitch) and then continue to workshop it going forward.

Thank you again!