Turns And Steps, Explained (1/2)

Turns and Steps, Explained (1/2)

Okay party people, after jumps and spins, are you guys ready to take your figure skating watcher know-how to its next level with turns and steps?

To avoid indigestion and to keep the post within not completely outrageous length I’m going to divide and conquer ‘em this time. This first post will cover the turns. A second post will follow to cover the steps and some additional interesting tidbits.

Before we get down to business, there’s one topic we must go over as a primer. I’ve actively tried to avoid mentioning it in the previous tech posts because according to my experience, bringing it up is a surefire way to turn off any spark of interest new fans / casual viewers might have in a skating discussion. However with turns and steps we cannot, repeat, cannot, circumvent this topic. So, let us talk about edges.

Now there are only 3 possible states a skater’s skating blade can be in at any given time on the ice: inside edge, outside edge, or flat edge. In order to tell them apart you just need to answer this question: is the blade leaning toward or away from the center of the skater’s body? If it’s toward, they’re on an inside edge, if it’s away, it’s an outside edge, and if it’s neutral, it’s a flat edge. Once we’ve established that, the next step is to check out the direction of the skate, is it backward or forward? Combining these two answers, you’ll get to whether it’s a forward inside edge, a back inside edge, a forward outside edge, or a back outside edge.

(In case you’re still wondering why you need to know all this stuff, well that’s because a turn is, by definition, a move in which the skater changes edges or changes directions or both, on one foot. A step is basically the same thing, but with a change of foot as well.)

Here’s an example on how to “read” edges: Yuzuru’s triple Axel at Skate Canada 2015. He entered the jump on an outside edge (note that since it’s a spread eagle, his left foot was on a forward edge and his right foot on a back edge). He moved to a forward outside edge on his left foot to take off for the Axel, finished 3.5 rotations in the air and landed on a back outside edge on his right foot. He transitioned out of the jump into another outside spread eagle and then changed edge midway to turn it into an inside spread eagle - pay attention to that subtle shift in center of gravity at the edge change. (And that, kids, is how you get a perfect score for your triple Axel.)

Here’s the jump and transition in all of its real time glory to get your eyes some practice:

With that done, we can move on to examine the 6 types of turns in figure skating. They are: twizzle, bracket, loop, counter, rocker, and three-turn.

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浓 (nóng) — concentrated 承诺 (chéng nuò) — to agree to do something 　奢求 (shē qiú) — to make excessive demands 懂 (dǒnɡ) — to understand 迷惑 (mí huò) — confused

如此 (rú cǐ) — such 执著 (zhí zhuó) — stubborn, persistent 脆弱 (cuì ruò) — fragile 习惯 (xí guàn) — to be accustomed to 摆脱 (bǎi tuō) — to cast off

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logophile101

7 years ago

Me when I get a 5/10 on a science test: oh well shit happens

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8 years ago

一模一样 (yi1 mo2 yi1 yang4, sometimes yi1 mu2 yi1 yang4) - exactly the same

lit. one mold one shape

Ex. Our cars look 一模一样。

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7 years ago

We’ve all been there: You have stuff you need to get done, you know you need to get it done, but no matter what you do you just cant get yourself to take out your stuff and do your work.

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8 years ago

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8 years ago

想象的力量，给予我们无限可能。 The power of imagination makes us infinite.

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logophile101

7 years ago

The Hogwarts Houses as Langblrs

Gryffindor:

- Has an obsession with romance languages - Backpacks (or wants to backpack) around the world - Does a lot of 100 days challenges - Loves talking to natives - Uses tons of different study materials - Reads out loud in their target languages - Highlights everything in their textbooks - Goes on Duolingo every day to keep their sreak - Spends way too much time planning their next trips - Listens to podcasts in their target languages while working out - Is better at their target languages when they’re drunk - Fights anyone who says that you can become fluent in three months - Visits (or wants to visit) all their friends abroad - Whises to visit every country in the world - Loves roadtrips, hiking and sleeping in tents - Tries local alcohols everywhere they go

Languages: Spanish, Italian, Greek, Portuguese, Arabic

Hufflepuff:

- Gives language classes to refugees in their city - Volunteers abroad - Spends more time daydreaming than actually studying - Watches a lot of TV shows in their target languages - Studies their soulmate’s native language - Listens to music in languages they don’t know - Loves translating lyrics from their favorite songs - Cooks food from foreign countries - Give nicknames in different languages to their friends - Shares all their travels on social media - Talks to their pet in their target languages - Posts pretty pictures of their study space - Laughs at dumb duolingo sentences - Always writes postcards to all their friends when they go on vacation - Makes new friends every time they sleep in hostels

Languages: English, Japanese, Afrikaans, Norwegian, Hindi

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- Makes loads of flashcards - Studies way too much languages - Loves linguistics - Makes study schedules and bullet journals - Works on their aesthetic - Uses the pomodoro technique - Shares PDFs of textbooks with all their friends - Reads Harry Potter in all their target languages - Has an obcession with buying textbooks - Talks to themseves in their target languages all the time and then gets confused when someone talks to them - Starts a new language just because it sounds nice - Uses a different color for each of their target languages - Makes bucket lists with all the places they want to visit one day - Makes travelbooks to remember their travels - Can read five different alphabets - Dreams of spending a semester in a foreign university - Has ten different keyboards on their phone and doesn’t use half of them - Can spend hours looking at memes instead of studying

Languages: Latin, German, Chinese, Romanian, Persian

Slytherin:

- Makes slang masterposts in their target languages - Studies super hard to be better than their classmates - Gets really competitive - Teaches insults in their native language to foreigners - Studies a language in secret to surprise people by speaking it - Works on their pronunciation while working out - Loves trying new food when they go abroad - Can say “hello” in twenty different languages - Works super hard to get a C2 level - Send memes to their friends in languages they don’t even know - Acts annoyed when their friends asks them to translate something but is secretly very proud to be the official translator of the squad - Gets mad when they want to tell a joke but it doesn’t translate - Pauses their music so they can hear a conversation in their target language in public transportation - Pretends not to know the language a group is speaking so that they can spy on them

Languages: French, Dutch, Russian, Hebrew, Vietnamese

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