Wild figure

Mafke · Jan 13, 2009

Just came across this from a figures(!) competition last August in Colorado.

This figure is apparently part of a figures competition in August and this is skated by Debbie Minter (don't know how many competitors there were).

(the video isn't good enough for me to be sure about a couple of the turns, feel free to disagree)

It's a serpentine which starts off as a counter, but then she does a bracket on axis with the counter and then a three close to the counter and then back inside loops over the counter. She then completes the serpentine with a rocker with double threes on the end circle and does forward inside loops over the rocker, at the end she does a .... pineapple (you just have to see it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmraBg72IBE

If youtube links aren't allowed and it gets deleted then just look for 'debbie minter' at youtube.

gkelly · Jan 13, 2009

That seems like an accurate description, except the forward loops are also inside.

Mafke · Jan 13, 2009

thanks, I meant to type 'inside' and have no idea how the 'outside' got there, changed now.

Joesitz (RIP) · Jan 13, 2009

Mafke said:
Just came across this from a figures(!) competition last August in Colorado.

This figure is apparently part of a figures competition in August and this is skated by Debbie Minter (don't know how many competitors there were).

(the video isn't good enough for me to be sure about a couple of the turns, feel free to disagree)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmraBg72IBE

Boy, am I old!! There never were that many basic turns in any one given school figure. Does that figure she did have a number?

Is there a kind of a 'free' figure skate in modern times?

feraina · Jan 14, 2009

Oh, my God, what was she doing there at the end? She draws and redraws this thing, then hops on it emphatically a few times! I've never seen anything like it. It looked so serious until she got to the last bit. It was funny.

dorispulaski · Jan 14, 2009

During the 1988 Olympics, ABC did a piece on Gillis Grafstrom
http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/profiles/bio_uk.asp?PAR_I_ID=71728

They showed a figure he skated in 1920's in the Olympics. It was very, very complex like that.

MasterB · Jan 14, 2009

I did figures for years and I never saw that pattern. She must have created it.

I hated doing them as a child but, now I find them relaxing. My favorite patterns are the loops. They don't require much space and I usually can get some in during a public session.

Mafke · Jan 14, 2009

dorispulaski said:
During the 1988 Olympics, ABC did a piece on Gillis Grafstrom ...
They showed a figure he skated in 1920's in the Olympics. It was very, very complex like that.

At the memories on ice site (unlinkable beyond:
http://winter-olympic-memories.com/index.htm ) go to 1908 and look up 'mens special figures' and they have diagrams of the figures skated ... yikes!

I _lurve_ the heart loops in the bronze medalist's figures and wish those had been kept as a a variation of loop figures (they look like a loop with a three on the loop, just as those elongated loops look like loops with a bracket on the loop).

MissCleo · Jan 15, 2009

Mafke said:
It's a serpentine which starts off as a counter, but then she does a bracket on axis with the counter and then a three close to the counter and then back inside loops over the counter. She then completes the serpentine with a rocker with double threes on the end circle and does forward inside loops over the rocker, at the end she does a .... pineapple (you just have to see it).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmraBg72IBE

feraina said:
Oh, my God, what was she doing there at the end? She draws and redraws this thing, then hops on it emphatically a few times! I've never seen anything like it. It looked so serious until she got to the last bit. It was funny.

according to the first post, it is supposed to be a pineapple. It was a great ending. :biggrin:

skatingbc · Jan 15, 2009

cleopatra20042004 said:
according to the first post, it is supposed to be a pineapple. It was a great ending.

Pineapples are the best! I use them to teach beginner Canskater's (Skate Canada's Learn-to Skate Program) how to scull and to practice two-foot jumps on the spot. They're a great way to teach basics!

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