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- Apr 24, 2017
I just stumbled into this entire Figure Skating thing when I saw a broadcast of the Men's FS at the World Championships this year. It was totally different from what I thought Figure Skating was and now I'm completely enchanted by this sport!
While I'm not scouring YouTube for programs to watch, I've been lurking around this forum and reading up everything I could on the web about the different competitions, rules, scoring, and techniques. I think I have a rudimentary grasp on identifying jumps, edges, transitions, et cetera, but I have no idea where each element falls on the spectrum of 'poor-average-great' or which programs are fantastic versus mediocre. It all just looks gorgeous (and honestly kind of superhuman) to me, haha.
Basically, could any of you veterans point me in the direction of any programs and/or skaters that can be considered a standard for comparison, or important to shaping the course of this sport? Ideally, both past and current, because I'd love to see how Figure Skating has gotten to where it is now. The more the better too, because I honestly can't get tired of watching Figure Skating right now.
Any pointers on how to discern what certain things commentators keep talking about (Deep edges? Flow? Difficult entries?) would be welcome too.
While I'm not scouring YouTube for programs to watch, I've been lurking around this forum and reading up everything I could on the web about the different competitions, rules, scoring, and techniques. I think I have a rudimentary grasp on identifying jumps, edges, transitions, et cetera, but I have no idea where each element falls on the spectrum of 'poor-average-great' or which programs are fantastic versus mediocre. It all just looks gorgeous (and honestly kind of superhuman) to me, haha.
Basically, could any of you veterans point me in the direction of any programs and/or skaters that can be considered a standard for comparison, or important to shaping the course of this sport? Ideally, both past and current, because I'd love to see how Figure Skating has gotten to where it is now. The more the better too, because I honestly can't get tired of watching Figure Skating right now.
Any pointers on how to discern what certain things commentators keep talking about (Deep edges? Flow? Difficult entries?) would be welcome too.
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