Artistic Skating

Figure Skating

Figure skating incorporates the most basic and important skills of artistic roller skating – skating on “edges”. Intricate turns and shapes are tracked on predetermined circles marked on the floor. Skaters learn balance and the skill of fine control over their skates as they learn and progress through more than sixty different figures.

Free Skating

Free skating is an individual performance. It involves a choreographed routine to music that incorporates jumps, spins, and intricate footwork. Skaters taking up free skating learn coordination, techniques of jumps and spins, and also the creativity of dance and drama in their artistic impression. For couples, this discipline extends to pairs skating where athletic power and strength produces magic routines involving overhead lifts and breathtaking spins in duets.

Pair Skating

Pair Skating is an individual performance. It involves a choreographed routine to music that incorporates jumps, spins, and intricate footwork. Skaters taking up free skating learn coordination, techniques of jumps and spins, and also the creativity of dance and drama in their artistic impression. For couples, this discipline extends to pairs skating where athletic power and strength produces magic routines involving overhead lifts and breathtaking spins in duets.

Solo Dance Skating

Dance skating combines the grace of ballet and the rhythm and precision of ballroom dancing. Individuals can perform dance. Skaters start by learning compulsory dances such as tangos, waltzes, and marches. As part of their dance training, skaters learn timing, poise, and expression.

Couple Dance Skating

Couple dance has required elements that competitors must perform and that make up a well-balanced program. They include the dance lifts, the dance spins, the step sequences, twizzles, and choreographic elements. This discipline can progress to Free Dance where skaters perform duets involving arange of lifts, footwork, and imaginative choreography in time to the music.

Quartet

Quartet is an event performed by 4 skaters but, shall not be made up of two couples but four skaters acting as a group. They musty perform orderly in a sophisticated style of skating revolving around a theme which can be chosen by the specific teams. The theme must match to the music and the costumes and the performance must affirmatively convey the theme chosen.

Show Group

Show Group requires to have a themed performance and a storyline which is conveyable to the audience and the judges. Required elements are also performed accordingly. The main performance of a show group must be show, not precision. Show teams give in their performance expression of show elements; so, the audience and judges are aware of a theme matching the title of the performance.

Precision Skating

Precision skating is team skating. Precision involves creatively choreographed and presented routines involving set patterns and manoeuvres performed to music, by teams of between 6 and 24 skaters. It relies less on the high level of skills required for free skating and dance and more on teamwork and accuracy to skate in unison.