LFO-Rocker (LFO to LBO): Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on left forward outside edges and exit on left back outside edges. LBO-Rocker (LBO to LFO): Lorraine McNamara and Quinn Carpenter enter on left back outside edges and exit on left forward outside edges. RBI-Rocker (RBI to RFI): Scott Moir enters on a right back inside edge and exits on a right forward inside edge. LFI-Rocker (LFI to LBI): Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir enter on left forward inside edges and exit on left back inside edges. You can also see the ice marks of a rocker in this gif. RFO-Rocker (RFO to RBO): Elena Ilinykh and Nikita Katsalapov enter on right forward outside edges and exit on right back outside edges. The blade turns in the direction of the entry curve. The skater changes from back to front or front to back, maintaining the same edge (outside to outside or inside to inside). In singles skating, the direction of the step/turn (clockwise or counter-clockwise) is important because a skater must have 5 types of difficult steps/turns in both directions to achieve level 4 on their step sequence, so I will also separate them by their direction. This is especially true for rockers and counters since skaters maintain the same entry and exit edge (inside to inside or outside to outside) in both. For 3 of the difficult one foot turns (rocker, counter, bracket), I’ve also included examples from each of the 8 entry edges because in my opinion, they are the hardest to tell apart of the steps/turns. For singles/pairs, the 6 difficult steps/turns are rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw, twizzle, and loop. For ice dance, the 6 difficult steps/turns are rocker, counter, bracket, choctaw, outside mohawk, and twizzle. Basically, that means, in the short dance you'll see each pair do the same pattern, and this pattern happens to be the Finnstep.I’ve made a guide to the ISU classified difficult steps/turns. That said, within the short dance is a compulsory element, "like a ballroom on ice," Bosley said.
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Now there is just the free dance and the short dance.
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The three dance competition structure - the original dance, the compulsory dance, and the free dance - was scrapped. In 2010, ice dance underwent a major change. RELATED: Drake Is Sorry For His 'Extremely Emotional Day' Yesterday The Finnstep " A lot of lifts like that just have to do with a really specific balance point, and finding that balance point. " She’s pretty much standing on him," McManus said. McManus explained that "u sually a team’s opening lift is always pretty much their most impressive," pointing to the first lift in the free dance from Russian skaters Elena Ilinkyh and Nikita Katsalapov. They are allowed a fifth lift, "basically just for creativity," McManus said.
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In the free dance, skaters are allowed to do four short lifts or two short lifts and one long lift, which lasts 12 seconds. RELATED: Joel McHale Will Host This Year's White House Correspondents Dinner "Within those categories there is a lot of room for creativity, especially with the way you get into a lift and exit the lift."
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foot to head, arched position, full split and change of pose)," McManus explained. spread eagle, one foot, crouch and rotating) and positions for the lady in the lift (ex. straight line, curve, and rotational), lifting positions for the man (ex. " To achieve a certain level of difficulty, dance teams have to hit certain patterns and positions. Just a lot of creative positions and transitions in the lifts just to gain the maximum level of difficulty. " There is going to be a lot of changing of positions in the lifts. " They are going to rotate a lot faster than the pairs," Bosley said. That said, the lifts in dance have become "much more acrobatic" over the years, she noted. Bosley said that you won't see the height in the ice dancers' lifts as you will in pairs figure skating, because the lifts can't be supported above the man's shoulder.