Many people would say figure skating is only a dangerous sport if the figure skaters are skating on thin ice. Those people are irrelevant to the fans of figure skating that see figure skating as such a beautiful and graceful sport. They see that it takes so much skill and practice to perform a routine like the ones everyone watch on television. What those people do not see on the television is what their practice looks like. Figure skating is an overlooked, however, highly competitive sport that requires very high intense practice. During these hours of practice, the figure skaters train all of their skills, some skills that are consistent and some that are new. Usually, the figure skaters complete all of their consistent skills on their first …show more content…
For a triple lutz, a figure skater is to take off of their left leg (going backwards) on a outside edge, dig their right toepick in the ice behind them, jump off the ice (rotating three times around in the air), and land on their right foot on an outside edge (still moving backwards). When first starting to work on a new skill like that one, it is unlikely that the figure skater will land it on their first attempt, considering they have less than one second to complete all of the directions for just that one jump. Another form of figure skating is pair skating. Pair skating is similar; just the falls are harder, and there is two figure skaters working together. So the only bad side of figure skating is the fact that all of this is trained and completed with no protective padding. However, hockey players, football players, soccer players, volleyball players, and mostly every other sports player is required to wear protective padding or head gear. Figure skating is an extremely dangerous sport that can lead to many serious …show more content…
Legs are the most important part of figure skating. Figure skaters train very hard everyday to strengthen their legs more and more. Skating is very precise, and the smallest mistake can have a terrible outcome. The common leg injuries are obvious: shin splints, fractures, sprains, brakes, strains, and tendinitis. There is many causes for these leg injuries, from training too hard to making a mistake. Even the best can get these injuries, such as olympian Jason Brown. Jason Brown is a very talented and entertaining figure skater. An example of his amazing entertainment would definitely be his 2014 Nationals Riverdance. Around this time, he continued training harder and harder on his leg strength to get more height in his jumps. However, this intense training led to a stress fracture in his right fibula. This injury forced him to take a month off of his advanced training, and put him back to where he started earlier in the season. Training is not the only way to get an injury in figure skating. Nancy Kerrigan can back that statement up. In 1994, Nancy Kerrigan was struck in the knee with a metal rod by a guy that was supposedly sent by Tonya Harding. Nancy Kerrigan’s knee injury was bad enough that she was forced to withdraw from the competition. Leg injuries are extremely important because they are the worst type of injury to have for figure skaters. Figure skating starts at the
There are many rules in this sport, and players have to practice a lot in order to play the game perfectly. For example, players cannot just shoot the puck from behind the red centerline across the opponent’s goal line at the opposite end of the rink. They have to use their skills and
After being mesmerized by figure skating at the age of eight, I became a member of the Markham Skating Club. As a competitive figure skater, I must perform various jumps and spins in a choreographed program. I have participated in numerous competitions in Central Ontario and have received multiple medals for my achievements. Yet, my achievement as a figure skater stem from the adversity that I faced throughout my skating journey. This sport has imposed challenges to both my mental and physical strength that have ultimately constructed the qualities of dedication and humility within myself.
RAH! RAH! GO TEAM! This is what most people think of when they hear the word cheerleading. Movies usually give people the impression that cheerleaders are just stuck up blondes that rule the school and cheer at football and basketball games. Although there are still stereotypical cheerleaders just like the ones in movies, cheerleaders are not just on the sidelines anymore. There are now competitive teams who only compete and do not cheer for anything. This is called competitive cheerleading. This type of cheerleading is very different from the cheerleading on the sidelines and is much more athletic. Competitive cheerleading is often underrated because cheerleaders make it look easier than it is. Society should consider competitive cheerleading a sport because it fits the definition, requires incredible strength and endurance, and considering it a sport would help prevent injuries.
Be strong, i’m here for you, why do you feel the need to do this to yourself? Those are some common phrases I hear from day to day. I have always been a happy girl, I have a good family good house and a amazing gymnastics career, but two years ago my life changed forever. Ever since I was a little girl I had always known my goal and pushed myself to the highest levels to get it. My goal was the olympics and there was nothing holding me back or at least that's what I thought.
First of all, Ekaterina Gordeeva should receive this award because of her outstanding achievements. “In the 31 competitions whose results are known at the senior and professional levels, they finished first 24 times, and never lower than second from the time they won their first senior world title.” (Rabinovitz). At the World Championships, Grinkov and Gordeeva received gold medals at Geneva in 1986, Cincinnati in 1987, Paris in 1989, and Halifax in 1990. At the Olympic Games, Grinkov and Gordeeva received a gold medal for pairs skating at Calgary in 1988. During the European Championships, Grinkov and Gordeeva won gold medals at Prague in 1988, Leningrad in 1990, and Copenhagen in 1994. At the International level, Grinkov and Gordeeva competed at the Olympics from 1987-1988, receiving first place, and from 1993-1994, also receiving fi...
Skates used to be more like skis. Players glided on the ice rather than actually skated. Artifacts also show the use of animal bones as skate blades as well. Currently, steal blades are used. There is a small arc groove on the blade that provides the friction needed to counteract the slipperiness of the ice (Haché 37). The boot of the skate is hard enough to protect the foot from puck impact but also flexible enough “to allow the calf muscle to push forward and to ease knee bending when the player crouches” (Haché 35).
When you think of hockey, you would think of people getting in fights or skating. To even play hockey you need to skate well enough to protect yourself from other people. Theses skates are 2.9 mm or 0.115 inches thick, skating is more tiring than running and they require different muscles. You have to be tough enough to take hits, block shots, or someone hitting you with a hockey stick. The puck you play with is 1 in thick and 3 inches in diameter. You have to hit the puck with a hockey stick, the blade is 12.5
Do you know anyone who’s ever been injured in hockey? Ice hockey? Ice hockey/hockey is a contact sport usually played in an ice rink. Two teams of skaters use hockey sticks to score a rubber puck into their opponent's’ goal. Teams usually have 6 players, one goalie and five skaters. Since playing hockey causes concussions, bodily injuries, and brain damage, youth must not be allowed to play the sport.
As a 29-year-old medical school applicant for which I have spent 23 of them in the world of competitive figure skating. For 19 years I was a competitive figure skater, competing at both the local and national level. Figure skating was my way of life, it guided every decision I made, whether I could go hang out with friends, go on family vacations, or what types of activities I could do so that I would not become injured, hampering my skating career. In the middle of my season in 2009 such injury occurred, I was diagnosed with a bulging disc partially caused by a grade one spondylolisthesis between my lumbar and sacral vertebrae. I was told that this was the end of my skating career, I would never be able to compete on that sheet of ice that
Asking these questions, has forced me to step back and examine my life and what I have been involved in the past as well as how my college days ahead will prepare me for my future.
Football is a very physically demanding sport. According to Taylor (1969), “Professional football is basically a physical assault by one team upon another in desperate fight for land.” (pg. 23) The body is used as weapon to prevent an opposing player from crossing into another's territory. The body must be strong and well equipped to endure the stresses of physical contact. The body is very susceptible to injury when engaging in football. It is important for those who participate in football train their bodies effectively. The same can be said for ballet. It is a physically demanding activity as well but the body is used as a form of expression. According to Huwyler M.D. (2002), “ For the dancer, his body in his means of expression, the instrument is his heart. Ballet is meant to be graceful and elegant, it does not appear to be a physically demanding sport as football is. Looks are deceiving, According to Kennedy M.D and Hodgkins M.D. (2008), “The grace and art of the ballet performance belie the great physical strain of the body as a whole. (Preface) Ballet places a great deal of strain on the body; it is important that those who participate in ballet receive adequate and effective training.
The Olympic Games. The biggest international sports competition in which the worlds’ best athletes compete from all around the world to win medals for their countries. The Olympics have been a worldwide tradition since the eighth century BC, but it has hardly benefited us as a species. Every time we have the Games, our resources are abused in order to create the Olympics we desire. Huge amounts of money are used to build venues and make medals, only leading up to the countries who host the Games going into debt afterwards. There are only rare cases in which the countries earn money from hosting the Olympics, but most of the time the debt that they get themselves into take years, or even decades to pay off. You might ask yourself, why do we even host the Olympics, if it has these huge disadvantages? The answer is because we want pride for our countries, no matter how temporary it is. Knowing this, we can safely say, that the Olympic Games do not help us grow as a species.
Within the essay, research has been collected to discuss formal and educational gymnastics. Reference to the national curriculum; old, current and new are used to justify why it is important to have physical education in the curriculum. Discussion about the 2007 and 2014 curriculums effect on gymnastics and why some teachers do teach gymnastic and others don’t.
A to prevent these injuries is to use a proper technique in landing. This could be done to land in a proper stance were feet are set width apart.
In addition to being used as an artistic demonstration, ballet can also be used as a sport. There is a saying among ballerinas, “Ballet. Like sport, only harder.” Why harder? you might think. It is undertaken mostly by girly girls. It is demanding because...