Skating Skills
Skating Skills are a combination of fundamental skating movements, executed on a pattern and skated solo. The basic components of all disciplines of figure skating are incorporated into the program. The movements are derived from former compulsory figures, free skating and ice dancing. The objective of the Skating Skills program is mastery of the basic fundamentals of skating - edge quality, control, power and speed.
There are 6 Skating Skills tests in the STARSkate program.
Preliminary- Waltzing Three’s
- Expanding Exercise
- Waltzing Mohawks
- Preliminary Circles
- Three’s and Power Mohawks
- Power Circles I
- Change 3’s
- Forward Brackets
- Power Circles II
- Expanding Exercise
- Multi Turns and Power Threes
- Snakes and Ladders II (revised)
- Flying Choctaws
- Rockers and Choctaws
- Multi-Circle Threes and Brackets
- Expanding Exercise
- Counters and Three Change Threes
- Multi-Circle Double Threes and Mohawks