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TWIZZLE SEQUENCE CODE
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Partners should be close together during the twizzle sequence.Twizzles should be fast and cover a lot of ice.Being even 1/4 of a rotation (or less) off from your partner ruins the effect.

TWIZZLE SEQUENCE CODE

(For more information, check out the Skating 101 Code of Points post.)Īs a casual viewer, you can look for the following when ice dance teams do side by side twizzles: With the Code of Points system, twizzles are given a level from 1 to 4 and a grade of execution score ranging from 1 to 3. In ice dance, partners need to do this side by side. In any case, for those of you who haven’t watched the video, a twizzle is a one foot turn that travels across the ice. Maybe they are that difficult in terms of comparing them as elements, it’s like comparing apples and oranges seeing that quads aren’t mandatory (though highly, highly recommended for top echelon skaters in this Olympic cycle) while side-by-side twizzles are.

The blades on ice dancers’ skaters are slightly shorter in the back to allow for the partnering and footwork sequences.įor some reason, commentators call the twizzles the “quad of ice dance” which I don’t really get.

The highest a partner can be lifted is on the other partner’s shoulder.

As I mentioned in my Skating 101 post on Pairs Skating (see link below), overhead lifts are illegal in ice dance.

In fact, a jump with more than a half rotation is illegal, even as part as a lift or other element. 1741, the rules have been changed and starting in the 2014/2015 season, other skaters in all other disciplines will be allowed to use vocal music with lyrics.

Ice Dance is the only discipline that allows vocal music with lyrics in competition programs.

(For more information on the CD, check out my Throwback Thursday post on it.) This segment has since been eliminated but skaters still have to incorporate these patterns in their short dance.

Until the end of the 2009/2010 season, skaters had to skate to set dance patterns in the compulsory dance (CD) segment of the competition.

Ice Dance is supposed to be somewhat like ballroom dancing on ice.To start off, here are a few things unique to ice dancing: Hopefully, these posts will help you be a better judge when watching figure skating in Sochi! Now, the topic for this post is… ice dance! Ice Dance is quite unique among the disciplines in figure skating in that its focus is not on big jumps but rather on the complicated footwork, edges (look how close Tessa and Scott’s skating blades are to the ice below) and the interpretation of music.

TWIZZLE SEQUENCE SERIES

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