I♥Yuna;889303 said:
Thank you
I have some more questions if you can help:
Flow and effortless glide
Rhythm, strength, clean strokes, and an efficient use of lean create a steady run to the
blade and an ease of transfer of weight resulting in seemingly effortless power and
acceleration.
My question is, what is a "steady run to the blade"? Does it refer to the quality of the blade travelling across the ice (seemingly frictionless contact with the ice as it travels along, and bad run to the blade would be when the blade has a stop and start kind of motion, like on jump exits sometimes if their weight is not balanced over it)?
The ISU program components videos on
Balance,
Flow, and
Sureness may shed some light for you.
And, does this criterion also apply universally, like the first one (is flow/glide something you should have during all kinds of steps and turns, or does it only apply to travelling blade positions that are fixed/static like jump entrances, exits, spread eagles, spirals, death spirals, balancing lifts in dance, etc.)?
I'd say it applies to all turns and steps, with a few exceptions like toe steps that intentionally break up the flow for choreographic effect. (But toe steps are an example of what I mentioned above, that purists would say is not really skating.)
The reason I ask is because the next criterion sounds a lot like this one, but without the mention of "lean" and "run":
Cleanness and sureness of deep edges, steps, and turns
The skater should demonstrate clean and controlled curves, deep edges, and steps.
I'd say that flow and cleanness/sureness of edges and deep edges often go together. But it is possible to skate on deep curves with less security (sureness), maybe wobbling slightly throughout or with some noticeable changes in the edge shape or even rocking onto flats or the opposite edge. So that would be bad sureness, despite deep edges.
It's also possible to push hard with each stroke, start a deep edge with good speed, but lose speed as it progresses, and then have to gain speed again with the next push, over and over again. So even though the average speed might be decent, the edges might be deep -- the start-and-stop quality would not demonstrate continuous flow.
At lower levels, you often find skaters scratching with their toepicks on back crossovers. That disrupts the flow and the cleanness.
Skaters might also scratch their toepicks on the back edge right as they exit a turn (or turning step like a mohawk or choctaw) from forward to backward. That would make the turn not "clean."
Turns can also be skidded or scraped. Not clean or sure.
Sometimes skaters change edge immediately before or after a bracket, counter, rocker, or choctaw, turning them into threes or mohawks -- a similar mistake to changing edge before a lutz or flip. That would make those turns not clean or sure.
Some other steps (e.g., cross rolls) might be executed by putting the free foot down on a flat or wrong edge and then rocking onto the correct edge after the blade is on the ice. So that step would not have been executed cleanly.
It's possible to have little edge changes in and out of turns and steps, or to have wobbles or flats on the edges, without really disrupting the continuous glide (flow) on the ice. So flow and sureness don't always go together -- they're not exactly the same thing.
Here's one: in the component description for Skating skills, the first criterion is "balance, rhythmic knee action, and precision of foot placement"
so his lines and postures, ice coverage are not enough or something? If so then who are the ones to judges those components in the program? Like slow motion or something?
