There are many things to this, with this being a sport i am going to have to study etc.

Its a lot of practicing i can tell, during live performances its better to fail on something easy than a dangerous move.

Its a lot of physics, lots of moves that seem country specific? could it be disrespect to do another country to do their moves? before them???

I am watching the Beijing Olympics btw right now and at the same time i am reading the wiki page.

Its pretty crazy, this type of artistic staking came out in the early 1900s, theirs a little bit of science to it all, from the thickness to the blade to the curvature of it, to the temperature of the ice to the type of skating.

Single, pair and couple- 3 different type of skating in the Olympics

LMAO ICE THEATER – see this a lot with shows etc, sponge bob to.

Jackson Haines — Father of figure skating.

Shit really started to go wild after WW2, they started making new moves etc. Russian got involved and shit got wild, i know they were juicing everyone up lmao for the Olympic weight lifting i wouldn’t be surprised if they did for this to.

Lots of the jumps and moves are judged at almost every aspect, from how they gained speed for it, how they jumped, to how the turn looked to how they landed its wild.

put the same aspect to every other type of move.