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I'm here today to answer your questions from the Internet.

How do figure skaters not get incredibly dizzy and just kind of die?

So honestly, we actually do get dizzy, but not as much.

We end up doing spins over and over and over again just on one practice.

And that happens throughout days and months and years.

So over time, your body just gets used to that and you have a much better ability to get yourself undizzy really quick.

Your brain starts to realize kind of the RPMs of what you're spinning at and it begins to adjust.

Now, granted, if you stay in the spin for a very long time, longer than usual, you will still get dizzy.

Can someone explain the difference between all the jumps in the sport?

Okay, so in our sport we have six different jumps.

Then you have your loop, flip and lutz jump.

We also have three toe jumps and three edge jumps.

Then you have your toe jumps, which is flip, lutz and toe.

The edge jumps are done much differently than the toe jumps.

You have to use the momentum and you have to kind of use your edge quality to lift yourself up from the edge, from the rocker.

The toe jumps is where you use the toe pick to launch yourself off the ice.

And we always, no matter what jump it is, we land on our right foot.

If you do rotate counterclockwise and the axle is the only jump that takes off forward.

That's actually one of my favorite jumps.

And you count it in half rotations, right?

So Walt's jump, that basic one, is half rotation.

Then you have your one and a half, which is Single Axel two and a half, Double Axel three and a half, Triple Axel.

Since you take off forward and you land backwards, that's where the extra half revolution comes from.

Does anyone have tips to get over the mental block of jumping?

The mental block is really just a lot of doubt.

Just not quite being as confident as you need to be.

You attach a harness and the coach skates behind you and they lift you.

So that gives you a little bit of a way to practice the jump without actually going into it yourself.

And the other thing is just going back to either singles or doubles, really working on the basics and the singles and the doubles, until you feel really confident to just slightly, slightly add that extra bit of rotation.

You know, the fear and the doubt, that's all part of the, of the process of landing new elements.

One of the best things that has helped me really is just taking it step by step from singles to doubles and then triples.

Kind of try to think of it like a double interrotation instead of thinking of it, oh my gosh, I'm going for triple right.

A Reddit user asks, do skaters know when they under rotate?

I find that with jumps that have more rotation, it's actually a little bit more difficult to know when you under rotated just because you're rotating so quickly when you get to the ice, it happens really fast when you land.

So even if it's a slight chi, your body doesn't even feel it.

Honestly, when it comes to jumps that have less rotation, you're in the air longer and you're rotating a bit slower.

So it's very clear when you do a chi, the jump, when you take off onto your jump, you don't take off just straight like this.

So whichever direction that your blade is taking off in, you have to land backwards in that same direction.

So for example, let's say you're taking off this way and you land only a quarter turn backwards kind of relative to how you took off.

That's going to be a quarter turn underrotated, or as we call it, Q.

Now, when you have a more severe underrotation, that's called a downgraded jump, where you might take off forward, you do your rotations in the air, and then you can land actually forward and turn the rest of the time on the ice.

That's going to be a severe underrotation called a downgrade.

Next question comes from important_2141, how to overcome embarrassment when falling.

I'm still working on it, so embarrassment is part of the process as well, especially when you're learning a new jump.

There's a process where you're falling over and over and over again, and it can get really frustrating.

The other time when that happens is when you already mastered an element.

And then you come into the ice one day, you're feeling a little bit off and you start falling on really easy stuff.

And then you're kind of looking around like, well, did anyone see that?

Or, you know, what's wrong with me today?

That's really embarrassing that I'm falling on some really easy stuff.

You have to acknowledge the fact that you are going to feel those feelings.

But in reality, it's all part of the process.

And guys, skaters that are Olympians, they make mistakes all the time.

It's the skaters that do fall on easy stuff that continue to get up and keep going and try it again.

Those are the skaters that are going to be, you know, successful in this sport.

What are some things you would want to see in the perfect choreo sequence Backflip that has been the talk of the past few years.

If you hit that thing, the crowd goes nuts.

And it is so much fun to do, I'll tell you that.

This question comes from RestaurantVast7942.

Do you think we will ever see a skater attempt a quintuple jump?

When you look at Ilya Malinin and the way that he's rotating, I mean, he's doing a quad axel.

What a quad axel is, is four and a half rotations on the ice.

You take off forward, you rotate four and a half times and land backwards on one foot.

The difference between that quad axel and a quintuple jump is only a half of a rotation.

So, I mean, I'm not speaking for Ilya, but I'm pretty sure that he's going to be doing it.

I have a bunch of couple figure skating videos on my for you page right now, and I'm falling in love just watching them.

How do they not fall in love with each other?

Okay, that's actually a great question too.

It's almost like a theater theatrical performance, right?

You go see a ballet, the man and the woman really just doing their lifts, and they choreograph this beautiful step sequence to a certain piece of music that can be very romantic, right?

And honestly, sometimes they do end up falling for each other.

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