Skating is a sport in which (athletes) put on skates (boots) with slender metal blades on the soles and slide on the ice by their own strength. Figure skating includes men's single skating, women's single skating and men's and women's double skating. The striding is just double skating. This sport is played indoors.
Ice dance is basically a "transplant" of social dance. Male and female partners cooperate to complete traditional dances, such as waltz, foxtrot and tango. In figure skating, there are many kinds of double skating movements, including many very complicated lifts and throws, especially in free skating, there are more unique and creative performances. In the single competition, there are many opportunities to show all kinds of difficult movements, all kinds of spins, all kinds of jumps and turns, and swallow-like balance movements.
The International Skating Federation, the governing body of world skating, was established in 1892. Figure skating is the first winter sport to qualify for the Winter Olympics. 1924 At the first Winter Olympic Games held in Schamoni, figure skating and ice dancing were both official events of the Chengdu Olympic Games.
The leading countries in skating in the world are the United States, Canada, Britain and Russia. Skating requires athletes to have strength, endurance, speed, coordination, flexibility, balance, grace and stability.
Brief introduction of figure skating and ice dancing.
1. The main international figure skating and choreography competitions are: World Figure Skating Championships, World Pairs Skating Championships and World Ice Dance Championships.
2. The judges of the international competition are: there is a jury of 9 people. They judge the completion of the action by artistic impression and technical level.
The difference between pair skating and ice dancing is that ice dancing is not allowed to lift. The arrangement of ice dance is not arbitrary, and ice dance must complete various dances.
4. Personal basic skills of figure skating include: all kinds of balance jumping, rotation, jumping, all kinds of sliding footwork and all kinds of coherent movements.
5. There are several different types of jumps, including: one-lap jump after knot, Lutz jump, Axel jump and Sahoff jump. One of the most difficult jumps is to complete the three-week jump, and the three-week Lutz jump helps the three-week Sahoff jump.
6. Some special movements of pair skating include: spiral, arc leg lift, split leg lift and swallow rotation.
7. Some basic coherent movements of ice dancing are: Xia Sai step, side step and speed skating, Chocta step and Moho step.