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  2. Jackson Haines - Wikipedia

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    He also screwed his figure skates directly onto his boots, which added stability and allowed him to do more athletic leaps and jumps. The common practice of the time was to strap the blades onto the boot, but direct attachments of skates based on the designs of the accomplished skater and author, "Captain" Robert Jones had been manufactured in ...

  3. Sit spin - Wikipedia

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    It was invented by American figure skater Jackson Haines. It has been called "one of the most important spins in skating". [1] According to figure skater John MIsha Petkevich, despite its difficulty to learn and the amount of energy it requires to execute it, "yields immense rewards" [1] for the skater.

  4. Donald Jackson (figure skater) - Wikipedia

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    Donald George Jackson CM OOnt (born April 2, 1940) is a Canadian retired figure skater. He is the 1962 World Champion, four-time Canadian national champion, and 1960 Olympic bronze medallist. At the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he landed the first triple Lutz jump in international competition and won the ...

  5. Figure skate - Wikipedia

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    Ice skating in Graz in 1909. Figure skating boots are traditionally made by hand from many layers of leather. The design of figure skating boots changed significantly during the 20th century. Old photographs of skaters such as Sonja Henie from the 1920s and 1930s show them wearing thin, supple boots reaching to mid-calf. Modern skating boots ...

  6. Ice skating - Wikipedia

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    The book was written solely for men, as women did not normally ice skate in the late 18th century. It was with the publication of this manual that ice skating split into its two main disciplines, speed skating and figure skating. The founder of modern figure skating as it is known today was Jackson Haines, an American. He was the first skater ...

  7. 2024–25 national figure skating championships - Wikipedia

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    National figure skating championships for the 2024–25 season will take place mainly from December 2024 to January 2025. They will be held to crown national champions and to serve as part of the selection process for international events, such as the 2025 ISU Championships .

  8. Figure skating in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Figure Skating is a sport in which individuals, pairs, or groups perform on figure skates on ice. Although ice skating began in 3,000 BCE in Scandinavia, American Edward Bushnell's 1855 invention of steel blades and Jackson Haines bringing elements of ballet to figure skating were critical to the development of modern-day figure skating. [1]

  9. Figure skating - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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