Jumps, spins, 3-turns, mohawks, choctaws, brackets, rockers, twizzles, spirals, spread eagles, chasses, progressives, inside-outside-backwards-forwards edges, toe-picking, veggie-chopping footwork (sorry Elvis), loops, lunges, split jumps, stag jumps, falling leaves...Spun Silver said:- the "vocabulary" of skating... ie the actual moves that go into the choreography. Is it my ignorance, the bad choreo I've been seeing, or is the vocabulary rather small compared to, say, ballet?
As fans listening to commentators, we just don't hear all the distinct movements described the same way skaters hear their coaches/choreographers tell them when to do them. But then, I know the vocabulary of skating far better than I know that of ballet. That comes from having a daughter who took lessons while living at home for 14 years, and now skating for myself. She hated ballet, and I've never done it...