The Drop Spin - How to color guard

This is the most basic spin that can be done with a flag.

     Begin in right shoulder (or left shoulder for left-handed spins). Remove your left hand from the bottom tip and turn the flag upside down with your right hand. Make sure that the silk goes down to your left and the pole comes up to your right. It is very important that you do not remove your right hand from the tab or change its position. Once the flag is straight up and down in front of your nose, place your left hand back on the flag, thumb down, and below the right hand. While the silk is down, both thumbs should be pointing down the flag pole. Remove the right hand and continue the spin in the same direction it was started in but with the left hand. Once flag is straight up with the silk up again, grab it with your right hand on the tab, thumb up. Let go of the flag with your left hand and continue the spin with the right until it is upside down again and repeat.

     The spins should be fluid (do not stop at the top and bottom except when you are first learning to spin) and should take place with your hands directly in front of your belly-button at all times.

     This spin can be stopped using a classic drop stop. Drop the flag into your left hand (like the first count of the spin) then pull the flag up straight, let go with both hands and regrab with the left hand 1/3 of the way from the top tip in the silk and the right hand at the tab.

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