Figure Skating

Sasha Cohen of the United States. She had been a favorite to win, and had a slim lead after the short program, but Sasha is notorious for never being able to skate a clean competition; she usually skates one program beautifully, and makes mistakes in the other, and she did so at the 2006 Olympics. She and Russia's Irina Slutskaya both made mistakes in their free skate, which allowed Shizuka Arakawa to come from third place to win Japan's first gold medal in women's figure skating.

An Axel is when you jump forward into mid-air and turn one and a half rotations in the air.You land backwards on the opposite foot you took off on.

Acceleration is change in velocity. These are vectors that have magnitude and direction. Changing either magnitude (speed) or direction will have the skater be accelerating. SO, if the skater is going at a constant speed of 2m/s in a straight line, he is not accelerating. If he is at a constant speed of 2m/s traveling in a circle (you gave the word "around"), he is accelerating. Going around in circles means there is a force constantly changing your direction. Obviously that force is coming from the skaters legs.

mabye in Jan or feb

It will be held April 24 to may 1, in Moscow.

Figure skating can be both a team sport and an individual one, but is only an indirect competition. In individual, each skater does their own performance and is graded, then compared with all others in the competition. In pairs or group, the skates in each team will conduct a performance, receiving the grade as a team and then has this compared to other teams in the competition.

Today, females can wear dresses, skirts, or pants. The outfit should be in good taste and relate to the music. In addition to the costume, skaters wear their hair in buns, ponytails, or otherwise out of their face. They also use heavy theatrical make-up so the audience is able to see their features.

You raise once leg and balance and glide on one foot. If you are right footed raise your right foot up and vice versa for left footed. Straighten both knees, and raise your free leg (leg in the air) to at least hip height or 90 degrees. Turn your foot horizontal to the ice, point your foot, and hold leg in that position for as long as intended or desired.

You have to be 16 years old to teach figure skating. But you must also have to pass the level/test that you want to teach for example if i was on intermitted i can't teach senior move in the field or freestyle. If you just want to learn, there is no limit to how old you must be! Find a class for adults or children and get started.

I hope i helped :)

An ice rink, usually affectionately referred to as 'the rink'

Robert Jones invented figure skating after is father died. Because is father always said do something speicial in life make history for me when I come to death . So Robert Jones made history figure skating has been here for centuries and it will always be here until the end of time . If that will every happen . He invented so there can be a new sport in lives or lif(e) . Such as soccer, hockey, baseball, basketball,speed skating , tennis, lacorse , racket ball, all types and that is what the man did followed his dad's words and made history ! Great Job, Robert Jones and thank you I love figure skating

Jayne Torvill is a professional Ice skater

so is Christopher Dean

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Peggy Flemming is alive and well and I think she lives in California. And she looks pretty good if you ask me. She is sometimes involved with Olympic ice skating.

Scott Moir was born on September 2, 1987.

elegant, lovely, graceful,beautiful,adorable

she was skating with a partner, and their skates got tangled
up and she fell(I think, judging from pictures, correct me if I am wrong =D)


-zoe <3

I am a figure skater myself and i have seen all different sizes of figure skaters on the ice! It doesnt matter what kind of body shape u have or size! Lets be honest it would be harder for a larger size person or a taller person to get themselves off the ice and into the air in many jumps such as ( Axel, Double sow, Double toe, Double loop, Double flip, Double axel, and tripple jumps). Most of the girls i see skating are small and short but there is some taller girls and larger girls aswell. I think no matter the shape size and Height of your body, i think if u keep your mind set on your goal (eg. landing a jump/ learning a spin) you can accomplish anything! That go's for all sports and activities!

Hope this helped :-)

Jessica Dube began to skate when she was 4 yrs old.

Kim Yuna started to skate when she was in elementary or near that age.

She was 19 when she did the 2010 Olympics.

In 2009,she was 18 then.

I don't exactly know when she met w/ Brian Orser to train for the Olympics or when she started in the Olympics.

for apex it is semicircular canals :)

The oldest pair of (ice) skates known date back to about 3000 B.C., found at the bottom of a lake in Switzerland. The skates were made from the leg bones of large animals, holes were bored at each end of the bone and leather straps were used to tie the skates on. An old Dutch word for skate is "schenkel" which means "leg bone".

By the time a reasonable precursor of hockey came along (originally known as Ijscolf, or Colf on ice), the skates were handcrafted by blacksmiths from iron and/or steel. No two pair were alike as the craftsmen used patterns of their own design. Essentially, the skates consisted of blades of iron and/or steel embedded into blocks of wood which were in turn strapped to the skaters boots with either leather or rope fittings.

retired dermatologist, Greg Jenkins

There are many different thigs that you can wear.

If you are indoors, you obviously don't want to be wearing a winter jacket, because you would be way too hot. But if you are outside and in the cold, you probably want to wear more layers, but also things that aren't going to make you the most un-aerodynamic thing out there. If you wear a sin suit, like most skaters do, I personally wear a warm, long sleeve shirt and then the suit over top (when I'm outside) But when I'm inside, i simply wear compression shorts and my skin suit.

And then you have to wear skates and a helmet and all that too.