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Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
« Reply #1 on: February 14, 2011, 01:08:56 AM »
I really like the Elements Recognition 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 ;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?

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Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
« Reply #2 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.

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Re: Glossaries of Skating Terms
« Reply #3 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