Ice Skating
Transcript: Ice Skating What is it? Ice skating is moving on ice by using ice skates. It can be done for a variety of reasons including leisure, traveling and various sports. It occurs on both specially designed indoor and outdoor tracks, and some people will skate on lakes and rivers. When did it start? A study by Federico Formenti of the University of Oxford suggests that the earliest ice skating started in Southern Finland around 4000 years ago. What do you use? Ice skates are boots with blades attached to the bottom, used to propel the bearer across a sheet of ice.Origionally, skates were merely sharpened, flattened bone strapped to the bottom of the foot My Experience This is a picture of me ice skating with minnie I have been going to ice skating lessons for the last six months, and have now reached level six. For each level, there are lots of different moves and routines you have to learn and be able to do before they will pass you. Throughout the levels, I have learnt a lot and am always progressing. Once you reach level ten, you will be able to join the skate UK squad, the group that enters professional competitions - hopefully I will be there soon! I am only at the intermediate stage, there are lots of people who take ice skating a lot more seriously. People ice skate in the olympics, some people skate competitions all the time, some people just do it for fun! This is Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean. They won a gold medal at the 1984 winter olympics, and became the highest scoring figure skaters of all time. They achieved twelve 6.0's and six 5.9's. The pair retired from competitive skating, and after years of never skating together, put together a show. Dancing on Ice is for celebrities to compete each year, and learn how to do many different twists and turns throughout the weeks. This is a picture of Kim- Yu-Na. Last year she became the 2010 olympic figure skating champion. She has also won a fair few other competitions in her time. She has won the South Korean National figure skating title six times. She is also the 2009 World Figure Skating Champion, and the 2009 Four Continents champion. In addition, she is the 2007 and 2008 World figure skating bronze medalist, the 2007 Grand Prix Final champion, the 2006 World Junior figure skating champion, and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix Final Champion. This is a video showing an olympic figure skater, in a competition... This is an example of people just skating for fun. Some places have outdoor ice rinks, this is usually in the winter when the ice will not melt. Other than this, you can always go to an indoor ice rink. These are people doing ice skating lessons. These people may decide to take ice skating further and more seriously, but for now, these pictures show people doing ice skating lessons, with Skate UK. SKATE UK.... Skate uk is an association that does a number of things. For one, The National Ice Skating Association is a British organisation that is responsible for the development of ice skating events and the assessment of ice skaters in the UK. It was formed in 1879 and its headquarters are in Nottingham. Also involved in it are a number of qualified coaches that are responsible for making peoples lessons worthwhile. This is where i am! Thankyou for watching By Tiegan Mehmi 5 Forward Crossovers in both Directions Backward Snowplough Stop 2 · Moving Backward · Half Snowplough or Full Snowplough Stop · Forward Skating · 6 ContinuousBackward Chassesaround a Circle Forward TwoFootSlalom 1 · Sit and Stand on the ice · Moving Forward (Basic Skating) · TwoFoot Glide and Dip · Stepping Around on the Spot 10 · Forward and backwards Crossovers in a Figure Eight Pattern · · 3 · Forward OneFoot Glide (straight line) · TwoFoot Jump Skating Forward · 8 Forward Inside Mohawk (L&R) Two Backward Crossoversfollowed by a Sustained Backward Outside Curve 4 · OneFoot Glide on a Curve Outside Edge (L & R) · Backward Skating and a TwoFoot Glide · Skating Forward and Turning to Backward i 9 Forward Beginner Crossrolls Bunny Hop 7 · Backward Crossovers in both Directions · Forward Inside ThreeTurn ·