The two are different in terms of the content of the sport, the time of origin, and the essentials of the movement:
1. The content of the sport is different:
Figure skating is an ice sport that combines skill and artistry. Accompanied by music, skating on the ice in a variety of patterns, perform a variety of skills and dance moves, the referee according to the action scoring, decide the ranking.
Ice Dance (Ice Dance) is a performance in which a pair of men and women skate on the ice to the rhythm of music in a number of dance steps and dance moves.
2, the origin is different:
Figure skating originated in the 18th century in Britain, and then rapidly developed in Germany, the United States, Canada and other European and American countries. The International Skating Union stipulates that the competition program has single figure skating, pairs figure skating and ice dance 3 projects.
Dance on ice originated from figure skating, began in the 1930s in Britain, after years of evolution, has gone beyond the scope of figure skating, and thus formed a separate ice sports competition program.
3, action requirements are different:
Ice dance is different from the male and female pairs figure skating, it favors the steps, there are strict limitations on skillful movement, ice dance is not allowed to use lifting action. Ice dance choreography is not arbitrary, ice dance must complete the prescribed variety of dance.
Pairs skating requires a male player and a female player to cooperate, on the ice to perform synchronized single skating action, and pairs skating unique action: jumping, lifting, pairs of rotating (two players at the same time around a **** the same axis of rotation), spirals, twisting and so on.
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