First, it’s important to know, first, that each skate blade has two edges with a curve -- or hollow -- in the middle. If you stand with your feet together, the edges that face each other are the ...

The jumps are household names, at least in figure skating households: salchow, axel, lutz, loop, flip and toe loop. In order of difficulty, from the easiest to the hardest, they are: toe loop, salchow ...

Study up! Here is a handy guide for some common elements you will see in many figure skaters’ programs. There are six types of jump seen in men’s and women’s skating. In order of most to least ...

Let's make no bones about it: the headlining sport in the Winter Olympics is figure skating. No other sport comes close to the drama, the athletes, the subplots, and politics that figure skating has.

Figure skating is a beautiful sport that's full of graceful moves, impressive jumps, and a lot of technical skating skills, but it also comes with a lot of terminology that might sound confusing to ...