Ice skating is an old sport,
that went through for
different moments until
became recognized as
an Olympic sport and
thing important on winter
Olympic games. It is moving on ice by using ice
skates .People practice it
for different reasons like:
exercise, leisure, and
things like that. Ice skating occurs on indoor and
outdoor tracks, also on
natural bodies of frozen
water, such as lakes and
river. There are some kind
of ice skating like figure
ice skating and speed
skating, and to practice
them is necessary a good
pair skates and special
dresses.
The history of ice skating stretches since the
prehistory. Primitive ice
skates appear about
3000 B.C. in Switzerland
but modern ice skating
derived from Dutch, on the
lakes of Scotland and the
canals the Netherlands in
the 13th and 14th centuries until late 19th century
it emergence as a sport in
the 1891, the European champion ships in Hamburg, Germany
in 1896, the first world championships in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire. In U.S.A., it was introduced by Jackson Haines around
1863, he was a pioneer International style of ice skating and developed the two plate all metal
blade, the blade was attached
to Haines’ boots, then in 1914
John Strauss invented the first
toe blade of steel making skates
lighter and stronger . In 1908 the
ice skating was made an Olympic
There are two big forms of ice
skating, figure skating and speed
skating.Figure skating is more
popular than speed skating. Figure skating has different forms
like free skating, moves in the
field, pair, dance and synchronized team skating. Single skating has step sequences like general, short program, and free
skating, then the rules for general
are all step sequences should be
executed according to the character of the music, short stops,
turn and steps must be balanced;
Short program for senior and
junior men, and for senior and
junior ladies should included one
step fully utilizing the ice surface
and may include any unlisted