Does anybody know for sure why the Double Reverse Spin has only one full turn. My thoughts are that originally there were two, but with no lowering between the first and the second ( no heel lead) just continuing into the second on the toe. That goes around twice.

I usually dance two in succession, but with the heel lead starting both. If the first starts with a heel lead, why wouldn't, shouldn't, couldn't the second? Although I might try it your way and see how it feels.

Two DRS in a row would of course use a heel lead on the second. A single DRS with the spin continued into an additional pivot is called a double reverse overspin and is a diffent action entirely.

ABCDEFG. Yes I know how it would be done today. But when a guy named Maxwell Stewart in 1924,( they weren't stupid in those days ), introduced the step, why call it a double. Might as well call a Natural Spin Turn a Double Natural Spin Turn. Somewhere along the line something has got lost. I just thought somebody might know.
To get onto the Natural Turn . According to Victor Silvester up to 1922 nobody ever did a full turn. They got to the first three and then did a Backward Change with the foot passing on the third step. Nobody thought of doing a full Natural Turn. A Spin Turn would have caused a sensation in thoes days. Probably a disqualification.

To those interested. Alex Moore who wrote the book said."The Double Reverse Spin is rather misnamed as it is not a Spin, nor is it necessary to dance it twice. So there you go.

Maybe a reverse turn is 3/8 of a turn, a reverse spin is 4/8 (half a turn), so a full 360 degree spin is a double reverse.
Or maybe it's just badly named. there are lots of things in life badly or wrongly named. like centrifugal force, for example. That always throws me off

A rose by any other name?

I don't know how this arose

But "Telemark with Lady's Vienesse Cross and Man's Balance Challenge" is such a mouthfull

How about "reverse spin" or is there one of these already. It's not a telemark