Singles skating includes jumps, spins, or a combination of both, at the same time, demonstrating harmonious figures to a chosen piece of music. The figures can be in the form of the skater's bodyline, arms movement, gestures, torso movements, footwork or the trace on ice.

In competitions, there are technical skating and freestyle skating for both men and ladies' singles. The technical skating consists one third of the total score while freestyle consists two thirds of the total score.

Amongst the few diciplines in Figure Skating, singles skating is the most competitive. For the past few decades the expectations for singles skating has been increasingly high. For men, the least a competitive skater must have in their program is a triple axel-triple toe! For ladies, a triple axel!


Further information on singles skating :-

*All jumps and spins are describe with reference to CCW skaters only.




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Some excellent pages : -
Technical Skating, by Kevin Anderson - An excellent place to get media clips for all the jumps and spins!
The Figure Skating Website, by DonKorte.
Tim's how to do a blurspin Page, by Tim Waxman - Learn how to spin like a fan!
Jump Physics - the science behind jumps rotations. Read this to increase chances to land the triple axel!
Figure Skating - a large photo gallery.by Christine E.Wilson.
Skate Web, by Sandra Loosemore - a large web of all figure skating links.
J. Barry Mittan-The Electric Photojournalist, have a glance on the photos taken by a professional photographer!


Personal homepage : -
Mike Weiss Homepage


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Updated 12-26-96
HL Matthew Lee
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