I am having issues to understand the Rigidbody.AddRelativeTorque

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Hello all,

I am quite a newbie in this game developing world but I started a little ski game project
My problem is I am trying to implement input from the controller and starting using the unity input system.

Before that, to make my character spin, I would use :

if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.LeftArrow))
    rb.AddRelativeTorque(-Vector3.up* speedFlip, ForceMode.Impulse);
if (Input.GetKey(KeyCode.RightArrow))
    rb.AddRelativeTorque(Vector3.up* speedFlip, ForceMode.Impulse);

and it worked perfectly, I could adjust the force of spinning by changing the value of the float speedFlip

But now that I am using the unity input system, this speedFlip variable doesn’t seem to change anything
In fact, the player will spin at the same speed no matter what value I put in speedFlip…

Here is the code since I implemented the unity input system :

float spin;

void Awake()
{
    controls.Air.Spin.performed += ctx => spin = ctx.ReadValue<float>();
    controls.Air.Spin.canceled += ctx => spin = 0;
}

void Start()
{
    rb = gameObject.GetComponent<Rigidbody>();
}

void Update()
{
    //unity input system - to spin
    float s = spin * speedFlip;
    rb.AddRelativeTorque(s * Vector3.up, ForceMode.Impulse);

    Debug.Log(s);
}

As you can see I tried looking at the value of the s variable to see if it was impacted by the speedFlip float, and it is so that’s why I don’t understand why the player still spins at the same speed no matter what the speedFlip value is…

The code I pasted is a simplified version with only the lines that interest us in this case
I can share the full version if any one is interested and can help me out

Thank you in advance