Jackie Wong
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And so the rocker turn is actually one of my favorite turns in figure skating that I actually like to do.
But it is done on the same edge, but it ends on a different curve.
So metaphorically, the same edge, me, different curve, different brand.
Nice.
All right.
So figure skating has four disciplines.
Some will call it five, but four in the Olympics.
The fifth one is synchro, which is not an Olympic discipline.
But there's men's singles, there's women's singles, so the traditional kind of one-person thing.
events.
And then there are the two-person events, which is pairs and ice dance.
And the difference between pairs and ice dance is that pairs generally will have your jumps and your throws and your high-flying lifts.
And then dance is more of the like dancing on ice.
So it started off as really just bringing ballroom dance onto the ice.
And it's
of course, transformed quite a bit over the past few decades as it has become a very different looking sport than it originally started as.
But the main difference is you won't see throws, you won't see jumps.
You will see some lifts, but they are generally lower to the ice because you can't do overhead lifts in ice dance.
So those are the four.
Singles and pairs will have your jumps, you know, if...