FLYING ON ICE
Sae Ogawa
A skater Mao Asada doing a
triple axel.
All about Ice Skating
your leg and twirl one and a half times. Also for
Have you ever tried ice skating? Well try it! In
this article you will learn what you can do in ice
skating. Like for example you can learn what
kind of tricks there are. Also you will learn
about pairs. Well let’s learn about ice skating.
Lots of Tricks
There are tricks to do at skating. There are
spins, jumps, and others. There are about 50
kinds of jumps. Also, for spins there is about
20 kinds. In total tricks would be about 70-120
tricks.
The most famous jump is called an axel. An
axel is where you get ready to jump and cross
Sports
figure skaters who are really really good like
the person who goes in Olympics, they do a
similar things but it is more harder it is called a
double axel. A double axel is you twirl two and
a half times. There is a triple axel three and a
half times. The hardest is four times axel.
There is fives time axel but no one ever did it
before. For the axel you sometimes can`t land.
Next is about the spins. The most people use
for spins are sit spin, catch spiral spin, camel
spin, and also the V shaped spin. What you do
for sit spin is you sit and get your leg out and
make your foot diagonal because if not you will
get your heel, and fall. All you have to do is
spin. For the catch spiral spin you lift up your
foot and grab it with your hand and put it high
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