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Title: Glossaries of Skating Terms
Post by: FigureSpins on November 10, 2010, 09:29:24 AM

Found a bunch of different skating terms glossaries online, in case someone wanted to know where the name "Salchow" came from.

http://figureskating.about.com/od/glossaryofskatingterms/Glossary_of_Skating_Terms.htm
http://www.usfigureskating.org/About.asp?id=60
https://www.discountskatewear.com/t-iceskateapparelglossary.aspx
http://gofigureskating.com/glossary.html
http://www.skatejournal.com/techindex.html
http://oasis.dit.upm.es/~jantonio/personal/patinaje/
http://info.specialolympics.org... (http://info.specialolympics.org/Special+Olympics+Public+Website/English/Coach/Coaching_Guides/Figure+Skating/Figure+Skating+Rules+Protocol+and+Etiquette/Figure+Skating+Glossary.htm)

Title: Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
Post by: jjane45 on February 14, 2011, 01:08:56 AM

I really like the Elements Recognition (http://www.sk8stuff.com/m_recognize.htm) page by sk8stuff.com, only wish it could be more complete by including dance / MITF elements. Say a skater wants to find out what is that "backward dogbone crossover" on a prefreestyle test? Google gives this (http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/64643.aspx) ;D

So here is my question: is there a better figure skating glossary page somewhere else? What would be nice yet reasonable additions to sk8stuff's list above?

Title: Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
Post by: Isk8NYC on February 14, 2011, 07:47:24 AM

Kayskate's skatejournal site is one of the best, imo.

About.com has some videos and photographs, but not for every element.

I really like Kevin Anderson's Technical Figure Skating page; it's the same concept that sk8stuff.com provides, but in more detail.  He has a lot of videos linked, but many of them are for doubles or triples, which are executed differently than their single versions.

Just a note about netiquette: if you use information from someone else's site, you should first ask for permission and second give them credit.  There's UK website that includes text and hand-drawn illustrations from Kay's website, word-for-word without giving credit where it's due.

Title: Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
Post by: jjane45 on February 14, 2011, 09:58:47 AM

I am putting together "resources / links" page for my rink's wiki, these help tremendously!

Any recommendations on sites that list common moves or drills like edge pulls, swing rolls, power 3 turns, or 5 step mohawk etc.? Guess I am too greedy now... ;D