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Jam skating (or Jamskating) is a skating style consisting of a combination of dance, gymnastics, and roller skating, performed on roller skates. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The origins of jam skating are disputed, but it is often traced to the Great Lakes region , Florida and California . [ 4 ]
Oumi Janta (c. 1991 [1]) is a German-Senegalese jam skater and influencer. Janta was born in Thiès, Senegal and moved to Germany with her parents as an infant. [1] [2] She grew up in Steglitz, before moving to Neukölln with her family. [2] As a child, Janta was a fan of figure skating.
U.S. Figure Skating requires each skater to pass a "Moves in the Field" test, as well as a free skating or free dance test, in order to qualify for the various levels of competition. Skaters must perform each field move in the specified pattern while demonstrating adequate power, quickness, edge control, and extension throughout the pattern to ...
Roller derby is a roller skating contact sport played on an oval track by two teams of five skaters. It is played by approximately 1,250 amateur leagues [note 1] worldwide, though it is most popular in the United States. [2] A 60-minute roller derby game, or bout, is a series of two-minute timed jams.
The design of the quad skate has remained essentially unchanged since then, and remained as the dominant roller skate design until nearly the end of the 20th century. The quad skate has begun to make a comeback recently due to the popularity of roller derby and jam skating. 1900: The Peck & Snyder Company patented an inline skate with two ...
Top 10 personal best scores in the men's free skating [2] No. Skater Nation Score Event 1 Vincent Zhou United States: 179.24 2017 World Junior Championships: 2 Daniel Samohin Israel: 165.63 3 Dmitri Aliev Russia: 163.83 4 Alexander Samarin: 163.30 5 Shoma Uno Japan: 163.06 2014–15 Junior Grand Prix Final: 6 Alexander Petrov Russia: 162.18
[1] [4] When executing the sit spin, a skater's back should be straight and not curved, their hips should be lower than the skating knee, and their free leg should be straight. [3] The best sit spin position minimizes the moment of inertia and keeps the heaviest parts of the body as close to the vertical center of gravity as possible.
American boys playing the game in Winslow Homer's 1872 painting Snap the Whip. Crack the whip (also known as Pop the Whip or Snap the Whip) is at its simplest an outdoor children's game, usually played in small groups, on grass and sometimes ice.