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Chiefly used in the US; also field moves (UK), skating skills (Canada). Elements of figure skating that emphasize basic skating skills such as edge control and turns, for the purposes of assessing a skater's technical ability on the ice and helping to determine the skater's competitive level .
Sonja Morgenstern skates a compulsory figure.. Compulsory figures or school figures were formerly a segment of figure skating, and gave the sport its name.They are the "circular patterns which skaters trace on the ice to demonstrate skill in placing clean turns evenly on round circles". [1]
The most familiar choctaw seen in free skating is the step from a back inside edge to a forward outside edge that is used as the entrance to forward spins. Otherwise choctaws are most commonly used as elements of step sequences. In Canada this turn is called an S turn due to its shape. It was changed on October 28, 2020 by Skate Canada.
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 ...
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 ...
Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-81087-0857. "Identifying Jumps" Archived 12 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine (PDF). (USFS) U.S. Figure Skating. Archived from the original on 12 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2022. Kestnbaum, Ellyn (2003). Culture on Ice: Figure Skating and Cultural Meaning ...
Bracket turn diagram. A bracket turn is a kind of one-foot turn in figure skating. [1]The transition between edges during the turn is the same as for a three turn—for example, forward inside edge to back outside edge—but unlike a three turn, in which the cusp of the turn points into the curve of the arc on which it is skated, a bracket turn is counterrotated so that the cusp points outward.
A pair lift and twist lift is required in the short program of pair skating; a well-balanced free skating program in pair skating must include lifts. The ISU defines dance lifts as "a movement in which one of the partners is elevated with active and/or passive assistance of the other partner to any permitted height, sustained there and set down ...