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According to figure skating historian James R. Hines, jumping in figure skating is "relatively recent". [2] Jumps were viewed as "acrobatic tricks, not as a part of a skater's art" [ 7 ] and "had no place" [ 8 ] in the skating practices in England during the 19th century, although skaters experimented with jumps from the ice during the last 25 ...
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir performing the Golden Waltz. The compulsory dance (CD), now called the pattern dance, is a part of the figure skating segment of ice dance competitions in which all the competing couples perform the same standardized steps and holds to the music of a specified tempo and genre.
Japanese figure skater Midori Ito, first female skater to land a triple Axel. The Axel is an edge jump, which means that the skater must spring into the air from bent knees. [31] It is the oldest but most difficult figure skating jump. [32] A "lead-up" to the Axel is the waltz jump, a half-revolution jump and the first jump that skaters learn. [33]
A The scoring abbreviation for the Axel jump [1] age-eligible Either "old enough" or "young enough" to compete internationally at a certain level. Skaters who have turned 13 but not yet 19 (21 for the man in pairs and ice dance) before the July 1 when a new season begins are eligible to compete in Junior-level events for the whole season.
The first steps in ice dance were similar to those used in ballroom dancing. In the late 1800s, American Jackson Haines, known as "the Father of Figure Skating", [2] brought his style of skating, which included waltz steps and social dances, to Europe. By the end of the 19th century, waltzing competitions on the ice became popular throughout ...
United States Figure Skating was once a world power — from the 1952 Olympics in Oslo through 2006 in Turin, the Americans won 19 of a possible 45 medals, including seven golds, in women’s ...
The U.S. Figure Skating community has been struck by tragedy in a plane crash before. An entire U.S. figure skating team died in a plane crash on Feb. 15, 1961.
Figure Skating, H.E. Vandervell and T. Maxwell Witham (1869), the first book to refer to the sport of "figure skating". [198] Spuren auf dem Eise (Tracings on the Ice), 1881. Written by three members of the Vienna Skating Club, it described the Viennese style of skating and was the most extensive technical book about figure skating published up ...