With the increasing numbers of younger skaters doing more flexible moves skating is evolving as it always has. However, do you think skating will be enhanced by becoming more acrobatic/contorionistic in nature, or do you think it will have a negative impact on classic skating consisting of elegance and deep edges with more emphasis on skating?
My second question is: from a safety issue, do you think there should be a limit on giving value or credit to certain moves that obviously places a skater at high risk for injury later in life or even possibly earlier? For instance, extreme back extension where the back is completely folded in half with very little space between the two halves of the back.
My second question is: from a safety issue, do you think there should be a limit on giving value or credit to certain moves that obviously places a skater at high risk for injury later in life or even possibly earlier? For instance, extreme back extension where the back is completely folded in half with very little space between the two halves of the back.