A Question for My Ice Skating Friends
What exactly is the difference between ice dancing and figure skating? I have a number of people who do things on ice on my friends list, but when I was looking up to see who would be at the world skating championships, and there was a distinction between “pairs” and “ice dancing.” So now I’m confused as to whether I should call these people on my
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First of all - we're ALL figure skaters. Ice skaters is very general and it can mean figure skaters, hockey players, or speed skaters. We're the figure skaters.
Singles skating is a figure skater, male or female, preforming their program on their own - such as Michelle Kwan.
Pairs skating is two skaters preforming FREE SKATING elements together. Free skating element are spins, jumps - just basically singles moves. They also preform PAIRS moves, such as lifts (which must be above the shoulder to qualify as a pairs lift - although other lifts are not restricted), twists, and throw jumps. An example of pairs skaters would be Jamie Sale and David Pelletier.
Ice Dancing is two skaters preforming DANCE ELEMENTS together. They preform twizzles, lifts (which cannot be above the shoulder), and dance spins. There isn't any jumping and the partners can never be seperated for an extended period of time - unlike pairs where the partners preform Side by Side jumps and spins. Ice Dancing is also the only discipline that has three phases of the competition. Pairs skating and Singles skating both just have a short program and a long program, but dancing has a origional dance (the equilvient of a short program), a free dance (the equilivilent of a long program), and COMPULSORIES. Singles and Pairs used to have compulsories also but they were taken out of competition in 1991 (I think).
I could go on about this forever, but there you go. That's your basic explanation.
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Thank you for explaining this, it makes much more sense now. Except for one little thing. Ice dancers can perform a TWIZZLE? Here I thought that was one of those new fangled brands of candy...
But again, thank you for explaining this.
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Okay, that last one was a type of cheese!
And now you're just showing off that you're young and agile, and I'm old and ... old, aren't you?
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*giggles*
Sorry, they are the different edges of the blade. The first letter stands for F - foreward or B - backward. The second letter stands for the foot where R - right and L - left. The third letter stands for O for outside edge or I for inside edge.
And I never cared for bri cheese. I must not be cultured enough. *giggles again*.
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