Despite its name, the death spiral is less risky than the twist. The man toe picks into ice and sets a pivot while the lady circles around him. There are four variations based on the lady's position.

The death spiral is one of the required elements in pairs figure skating. It involves having the woman drop to a position with her head so close to the ice the move appears death-defying.

Sochi Olympics kick off with death-defying skating Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford dazzle with a "back inside death spiral," and more from the 2014 games. By Jen Chaney.

Ice dancing and pairs figure skating both have skating and dancing elements, ... and a death spiral,” per the U.S. Figure Skating website. (Worth noting: Ice dance doesn’t allow jumps.) ...

WILMINGTON — Bianca Capone saw the figure skaters on television a few years ago and decided she wanted to become a “ballerina on ice.” After her first lesson, she broke into tears. “She ...

Understand how Olympic figure skating works—competition structure, event formats, scoring systems, judging criteria, ... and a move unironically called a "death spiral." Ice dance is judged more ...

Russian figure skaters Oleg Protopopov and Ludmila Belousova practice their signature “death spiral” before the start of the Olympic pairs figure skating competition in Squaw Valley, Calif ...

From death spiral, pair skates ... short program in this year’s U.S. Figure Skating Championships here at the CoreStates Center were from ... eligibles and go the full-time ice-show ...

In pairs figure skating, a move in which the male skater pulls the female skater into a circle around him while she skates on one foot with her body almost horizontal to the ice, her head almost ...

With the pairs short program starting today, we look at two other oddly named figure skating moves: the twist and the death spiral. Earlier in the Games, we defined what a twizzle is.