Is the new scoring system for Figure Skating effective? or do all routines seem to routine now?
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They stil look beautiful to me.
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For most people, skating in that direction feels more natural. I think it had to do with the fact that the majority of people are right-handed. If you're right handed, then it's more natural feeling for you to jump and spin and move in the counter clockwise direction. \n\nOn public sessions, rinks also require skaters to all go in the same direction for safety reasons, so you'll see that as well. \n\nBut at freestyle sessions, you'll see skaters moving in all sorts of directions - clockwise, counter clockwise, diagonally across the rink, in swirling patterns...
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I had a friend who went to play on a team for the first time. Things he had to work on was speed and stability with skating. Body checking, Stick handling and passing.\nHis shots where hard (though sometimes off target).\n\nI don't know what your strengths and weaknesses are nor your past experiences on the ice or playing floor hockey, street hockey or shinny hockey. So it's tough to say, but using my friend's skills as a guide, I would suggest to work on your agility on the ice, your stick handling and your passing & shooting.
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I agree with you.  Ballet requires the use of every muscle in your body.  It is a hard balance to keep because you have to be as strong as you are flexible.  It's a harder type of muscle to earn than bulk.  It also takes an extreme kinetic awareness.  Ballet dancers are very in charge of their bodies on the micro and macro level.  This is why so many athletes take ballet to make them better at whatever they do.  To be that aware and in complete charge of your body is an amazing accomplishment.\n\nIn the mid-1970's Life magazine had the famous ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev on the cover with the question:\n\n"Is the world's greatest athlete a dancer?"\n\nWhat prompted the article was that a study was performed at the time by sports trainer Dr, James A. Nicholas to determine which sports were the most difficult. He studied sixty-one sports, breaking them down into categories that included strength, speed, and agility. When he added all the net scores, no one was surprised that professional football was first (56 points). But what was a surprise to some was that professional ballet came in second, followed by professional hockey.  And yes, boxing was in the top ten.
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yea dont give up, it may seem hard at first but once you get used to it, its easy. ive been skating since i was 6 and i am pro now and im only 13 good luck
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Yes. It's common, especially in shows. Haven't you seen people skating in a long line that pivots at the center person? Then skaters join the line one by one at the ends. They have to time it correctly and skate really fast to catch up cause the person on the axis is skating in one spot, but the ends of the line are moving really fast. That's an example of one common syncronized skating move.
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Hi, JP.  \n\nI am a figure skating coach.  \n\nHighly recommend a book "The Inner Champion - a Mental Toughness Training Manual for Figure Skaters".  Author is Choeleen Loundagin.  I believe the retail price is around $24.95.\n\nThe website is www.innerchamp.com\n\nThis is excellent and will help you mentally prepare for a skating competition.  Another method I execute with my skaters is to have them listen to their program prior to their event and walk through the elements.  Focus is important....\n\nGood luck in your upcoming competitions!
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Definitely an art form.  You could try to call it a sport, but you'd have to use a loose definition of the word.  If you have judges, it's at least as much of a sport as figure skating.  (No disrespect for the physical requirements to be a dancer or skater, we are just talking about what you call it!)  \n\nI have trouble calling anything that is judged subjectively a sport, especially if the code of points used to score it may cause two competent judges to score it differently.  You'd know better than I if dancing falls into that category or not.
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A1: Yes, I think its nice sport if you mean cool, but in the case you mean if its nice meaning the people are, than it totally depends: coaches can be harsh at times (depending on who they are) and some people are just naturally too competetive.\nA2: Well, half the time I am but we SPOT, picking a spot to stare at until we slow down into an ending.\nA3: Well, you could wear anything you want but i really dont recommend it.\nA4: No, I wouldnt do it. You've gotta strech and that wont help, and if you fall, it really hurts, plus they might freeze. I recommend a dance or yoga pant.\nA5:Because of jumps and spins, also the zamboni doesnt always do a perfect job in layering out the globs of stuff, but thats not his fault.\nA6:Competitive level ranges in what your talking about too-if your talking about competing, then thats for your coach to decide and ranges on how many competions your local club sponsors. If your talking about testing, then it takes about 5+ years working 1 or 2 day sessions for 1 hour or more. \nA7:Of course, its natural! Especially when its a new jump...\ndont feel rained on if your fall at all!!! Everyone does.\nA8: Whats the best? THE feeling of......sense of accomplishment?....flying?....well whatever it is makes me soar. I love doing backwards thing like shoot-the-ducks and sprial (catch-foot). i love the toe-loops, and salchows. It just feels great. I cant explain all of it.\nA9: Hmmmm...  usfsa.org (united states figure skating assosiation), ifsmagazine.com, and isu.org (international skating union)\nIf you have any more figure skating questions you would like me to answer do another Yahoo! Answers question in sports> winter sports> and makes sure to put *miss artisic292* in the brief question summary thing!\n\nThanks, miss artistic292!!
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Figure skating, diving, gymnastics - all subjective sports. However, in objective sports women so far have not outperformed men and all absolute world and olympic records belong to men. \nA year or two ago I read an article in "Science" about the narrowing performance gap between men and women. The pace of narrowing was esp. fast in the '80s and many prognoses predicted that women will eventualy be able to compete with men. However, the gap does not shrink anymore nowadays. Of course, steroid-loaded females might be able to compete with males. But as one famous female athlete said (sorry, don't remember who) - "If women are really women, they will not outperform men physically".\n\nPS - to offended females: all this talk is about averages. Of course certain women can outperform certain men!
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No, besides the fact that it would be impossible to have live realtime results which would force long wait times between performances and the athletes receiving their scores, most people would only give good scores to the players from their own country. The general public is not unbias enough or knowledgable enough in the various competitions to give an accurate score. It would become a popularity contest and turn the olympics into a joke.
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Sadly, not yet. But if I were to go, as chilly a prospect as it may be, I would have to choose the Winter Olympics. Gotta love that figure skating!
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I believe that whoever wins the Gold in the Ladies Figures Skating will attract alot of attention, and if past experience with the event holds true, it will probably be the single most watched event on tv.  \n\nGo team USA!
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The way the game is called right now is the way it should be called.\n\nBefore the strike, the game had become slow and ugly.  There was no skating, too much play in the neutral zone, and far too many uncalled penalties for interference, hooking, etc.  With the new calls, the league is giving skilled players - not slow-skating goons - the chance to shine.\n\nAnyone who complains about the game now has no idea how hockey was meant to be played.  It's not supposed to be slow and rough, it's supposed to be fast, with lots of skill and plenty of big, clean hits - not little hooks and grabbing.\n\nFinally, you shouldn't blame the refs for all the calls - you should blame the players for constantly committing stupid penalties.  They know the rules, but so many of them continue to break them.  I don't care if it's even a minor infraction, it still deserves to be called.\n\nHockey can be fast and skilled without taking away all the hitting.  That's what we're seeing now, and I think that for true hockey fans, it's a huge relief after the quagmire the NHL was stuck in for a decade.
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First of all, I'm glad to see that somebody else besides me would prefer the olympics to be a sporting event, and not a biography on obscure athletes.  I can't stand to watch the olympics, because they never actually show any sports.\n\nBut... to answer your questions, it won't be all focused on ice skaters in mini skirts.  There will also be advertisements every 4.5 minutes.
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Yes it is. The tricks are far more advanced than they ever were in my days. In my days a kickflip was a hard trick. Now it's 360 kickflip, hardflip, impossible. Longboard doesn't have much trick to it. I can't keep up with all the kids today. too many tricks and everyone can do them.
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it's probably possible, but start off with the basics and focus on breaking the skates in. after if you can't do your one foot spin, try something else unless you HAVE to do it. otherwise, do another move. maybe one foot spins and work your way up. contact your local rink.(i've been skating since i was four so i should know)