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Spinning without getting sick - advice from pro-skaters

Angel1201 started this discussion ·

I know the subject of spinny pole sickness comes up on this site often so I thought I'd post this. I found it interesting. It was on a Yahoo sports blog in reference to Olympic Figure Skating. "Joe Rosato Jr. at NBCWashington.com talked to a former pro skater, who keyed him into the secret: Former National skating champion Shane Douglas said the key to getting over dizziness is to keep skating. "What we tell our students is keep spinning," said Douglas. "The more you do, the less dizzy you get." Douglas said it could take skaters about a year to get used to the dizziness. So, skaters initially get dizzy, but then it becomes second nature. That's how we felt when we first got our monocle. Techniques for initially dealing with the dizziness include staring at a fixed point, closing your eyes, and concentrating on something else."

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