A QUESTION ABOUT MOVING ON IN ICE-DANCING

FSWer

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Say,I was corious to know....what exactly do you need to be able to do (if anything) to be able to move on to doing holds?
 
It would be best to be comfortable skating on one foot at a time, on edges (curves), with some speed, without worrying about losing your balance.
 
@FSWer We have answered this question for you several times already.

You have to have good basic skating skills on your own before you can move on to doing holds. It is very, very dangerous for you and for the other skater to skate in a hold if you can't skate well by yourself.

Before you skate in a hold, you need to be able to balance and glide on one foot, both left and right, without wobbling or having to put your other foot down. As @gkelly says, you should also be able to skate on an edge on one foot.
 
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FSWer: several of us keep telling you the same thing. You have to learn to skate first before you will get a partner or do holds. You don't become an ice dancer by holding onto a partner.

No-one is going to let a skater get a partner until they have good skating skills. Period.
 
Ask yourself...WWKOD (what would Kseniya & Oleg do)? Here, watch this: Forward Perimeter Stroking (Hand in Hand, Killian)

So in theory, you need solid forward one foot glides and crossovers. But it's not just about being able to do these elements, or even doing them well. You have to be able to do them consistently. It should be so natural that if someone wakes you up at 3am and asks you do them, you should have no problems even though you're half asleep. So what happens if you can't? A year ago I was doing this exact exercise and when I was coming around the corner, I tripped on the crossovers and fell down and because of that, so did my partner. She got a bruised knee, and I ended up going to the hospital and was in pain for months with a bruised rib. Why did it happen? Because, one of my feet was half an inch from where it should have been. FSWer, this is what can happen when you mess up by LESS THAN AN INCH on the most basic partnered exercise. Do keep that in mind.
 
FSWer: I think one other thing we need to emphasize is that partners need to be pretty equal in skills. One skater cannot expect to have the other one balance them and hold them up and move them around the ice if they can't skate well. It's not about the holds anywhere near as much as it is about the skating and the other skating skills. You need to learn to skate first.
 

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