Just wondering if there are any particular differences in basic skating skills (stroking, edges/turns etc.) between ice dance and *good* freestyle skating?
I've done singles for about 5 years, but only in the past year or so have taken proper ice dance lessons. Now I'm progressing quite quickly through the ice dance test levels and spend about 50:50 of my time in freestyle and dance.
In ice dance (particularly in the first few months of beginning it) I get reminded a lot to have neater feet, lean more with my upper body, have a more pronounced bend and rise in the knee, turn out and point free leg etc. However, in all the years that I was only doing freestyle I had much less of this type of feedback.
Is that just because these are good skating skills and ice dance is comparatively more strict about them than freestyle, or is it because the actual technique of stroking/footwork in dance is different?
And on a related note, is there anything to note about skating skills in ice dance that isn't transferable to freestyle?
I've done singles for about 5 years, but only in the past year or so have taken proper ice dance lessons. Now I'm progressing quite quickly through the ice dance test levels and spend about 50:50 of my time in freestyle and dance.
In ice dance (particularly in the first few months of beginning it) I get reminded a lot to have neater feet, lean more with my upper body, have a more pronounced bend and rise in the knee, turn out and point free leg etc. However, in all the years that I was only doing freestyle I had much less of this type of feedback.
Is that just because these are good skating skills and ice dance is comparatively more strict about them than freestyle, or is it because the actual technique of stroking/footwork in dance is different?
And on a related note, is there anything to note about skating skills in ice dance that isn't transferable to freestyle?