WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE BEST ASPECT OF THE ICE-DANCE TEAMS WE WATCH ON TV.?

[FSWer]

Ok my Friends!!!! I want to ask you all today,what you think is the best aspect of the Ice-Dance Teams (refiring to all) we see on TV.?...I myself really enjoy the Layback leans, the Killan-Holds,and when Partners hug each other on the ice!! Anybody else?

 

[overedge]

@FSWer what I think is the best aspect - and we don't see it on TV - is how very long and hard those teams work. Ice dance is really difficult to do well, even at the levels of competition that don't get shown on TV. I admire the dedication and commitment and effort that every ice dancer puts in to their sport.

 

[Yazmeen]

I completely agree with overedge - when I watch the teams the most striking thing to me is seeing how all their hard work translates into their dance. And since one of them is my coach, I know just how hard he and his partner work at it.

 

[skatemommy]

I LOVE the new dance spins (and not a lot else about IJS)

 

[FSWer]

Say,(not Dances themselves) butdo any of the Lifts or moves in Ice-Dancing have actual names? Just like Pairs Skating?

 

[gkelly]

Most of the moves with names in ice dancing are specific steps and turns that the skaters do with their feet. You might not be able to tell the difference between them if you're looking at the top of the body. The judges and technical specialists are looking very carefully at the feet, but fans usually prefer to watch the whole body.

There are also names for different kinds of dance holds

Lifts are named by the pattern that they make on the ice: for example, "rotational lift" or "curve lift" or "straight-line lift." You can tell if they're rotating or curving or moving in a straight line during the lift.

Different teams will have different positions of the man and the lady in their lifts, but the positions don't have official names. Sometimes teams make up brand new positions that no one ever used before, so no one ever had a chance to name it before. The teams might make up their own names for a specific lift that they're doing that year, so they can talk about it to each other while they're practicing.

In general, the technical parts of ice dancing tend to have formal names. The creative parts usually do not have formal names.

 

[FSWer]

Most of the moves with names in ice dancing are specific steps and turns that the skaters do with their feet. You might not be able to tell the difference between them if you're looking at the top of the body. The judges and technical specialists are looking very carefully at the feet, but fans usually prefer to watch the whole body.

There are also names for different kinds of dance holds

Lifts are named by the pattern that they make on the ice: for example, "rotational lift" or "curve lift" or "straight-line lift." You can tell if they're rotating or curving or moving in a straight line during the lift.

Different teams will have different positions of the man and the lady in their lifts, but the positions don't have official names. Sometimes teams make up brand new positions that no one ever used before, so no one ever had a chance to name it before. The teams might make up their own names for a specific lift that they're doing that year, so they can talk about it to each other while they're practicing.

In general, the technical parts of ice dancing tend to have formal names. The creative parts usually do not have formal names.

 

[FSWer]

Most of the moves with names in ice dancing are specific steps and turns that the skaters do with their feet. You might not be able to tell the difference between them if you're looking at the top of the body. The judges and technical specialists are looking very carefully at the feet, but fans usually prefer to watch the whole body.

There are also names for different kinds of dance holds

Lifts are named by the pattern that they make on the ice: for example, "rotational lift" or "curve lift" or "straight-line lift." You can tell if they're rotating or curving or moving in a straight line during the lift.

Different teams will have different positions of the man and the lady in their lifts, but the positions don't have official names. Sometimes teams make up brand new positions that no one ever used before, so no one ever had a chance to name it before. The teams might make up their own names for a specific lift that they're doing that year, so they can talk about it to each other while they're practicing.

In general, the technical parts of ice dancing tend to have formal names. The creative parts usually do not have formal names.

Humm...interesting. Is there a reason for no names? Or were they just never named?

 

[overedge]

Humm...interesting. Is there a reason for no names? Or were they just never named?

@FSWer I think @gkelly explained why some of the moves don't have names - at least formal names. The moves might be so new or different that no one has given them a name yet. Or the skaters might have a name for the move that they use in practice but which isn't a formal name.

The big lift that Virtue and Moir did in their Olympic free dance was nicknamed the "Goose lift", I guess because Tessa kind of looked like a goose gliding over the water. But the ISU hasn't given that lift a formal name, possibly because no other team has done it since.

 

[FSWer]

Are we takin' about the horrizontal Lean I like?

 

[overedge]

@FSWer there is a picture of the Goose Lift on this page:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/tessa-virtue-and-scott-moir/

 

[FSWer]

COOL!!!!!