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What makes a good figure skater? Physically and mentally?

What makes someone a figure skater?

  • Skaters, in your opinion, what classifies someone as being a figure skater? landing a waltz jump, landing an axel? just tell me what you think makes you one. Thanks!

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    I think anyone who does figure skating regularly can call themself a figure skater. And by figure skating I mean jumping and spinning - basically, one foot spin and waltz jump and above. Anyone lower than that is only a recreational ice skater. But most people would give you different answers to this - what makes someone a figure skater is mainly down to opinion. Saying that someone isn't a figure skater until they've landed an axel is pretty stupid though - some people never get past single jumps because they just don't have the mental or physical capacity. Plus, it takes some people years of work to land axels - it would be cruel to say that they aren't figure skaters.

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I didn't start saying "I'm a figure skater" until I was doing single jumps, before that, I just said "I take figure skating lessons" or something. It annoys me when someone is barely doing one foot glides and calls themselves a figure skater. Like seriously, just no. I would say when you're starting waltz jumps or so, you can call yourself a figure skater. Don't be leading people on to think you're landing double jumps or anything. It's hard to say exactly, and everyone is going to say something different.

At the point that you're doing things which people who've gone into other branches of skating aren't doing. Yes, a waltz jump would qualify - speed skaters and hockey skaters don't do them. Though I guess you could argue that, since ice dancers also do single rotation jumps, the cutoff for "a figure skater" should be an axel (which ice dancers are not allowed to do in a program).

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