Confused about the new Waltz

[NanaPat]

This is why it's called Yankee Polka. Because it was invented by Americans.
It doesn't refer to a style of polka so much as to a specific sequence of steps skated to polka rhythm and adopted by the ISU as a compulsory dance.

This is also why we have the Austrian Waltz, which was invented by an Austrian team, and the Finnstep, based on an OD by a Finnish team. Or, sort of, the Westminster Waltz which was first skated at the Westminster Ice Rink in London.

We also have the Maple Leaf March, for similar reasons.

 

[dorispulaski]

Yes, the Yankee Polka was invented by Judith Kay Schwomeyer & Jim Sladky (later they married, so then Sladky & Sladky). Americans.

Hence Yankee Polka.