User:Adriana makhoul

What is figure skating? Figure skating is a sport. If you have ever heard or read that figure skating is not a sport, they are wrong. It is a sport with a small blade therefor, let's you figure skate. However there are different types of skating: 1. figure skating 2. Speed skating 3. Synchronised skating 4. skating with a partner (dance) Their are more but these are the most used. This sport was created in 1891 and the first world championships were in 1896. This sport are one of the most dangerous sport for reasons that you do a jump that you need to land on one foot with that small balde and you need to rotate a full 360 and sometimes even more! They are called doubles, triples, quades and no one has ever landed a quinte yet! In this sport Russians are normally in the tops because in Russia they only skate. They don't go to school. But you can still be good if you go to school! During this sport you need to do a lot of work outs when you aren't skating and then stretch so your muscles wouldn't get sor. You need you legs to be strong so you can jump high therefor, it'll be way easier to rotate the jump and you need arm muscles so your rotation is once again easier. If you do not understand this you can research: Videos of figure skaters doing triples slow motion. It'll show you all of the technique. We also have spins. They are elements that you need to have one leg on the ground turning.

We don't only focuse on jumps and spins tho! We also have solos. If you don't know what that is, keep reading! Solos are a thing that let's you put jumps and spins together. We also have artistic so your solo isn't so boring and yo can chose your solo songs. When you get to a higher level, your solo gets longer and longer. And the point of having a solo is to show it to the world! You do competitions with your solo and you gain points by making your spins, jumps and artistic super nice! Your goal is to be the best. But don't forget that you need to work for that and that their is always going to have someone who is better then you! That should make you work harder!

Hope this article helped about the sport figure skating.