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Special Figure la rassegna di obbligatori “speciali”

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Interessante pagina Facebook Special Figure (si lo so non è un libro) pare sia un’amabile rivisitazione degli esercizi obbligatori (?!). Pare assurdo ma la pagina, sostenuta non per ultimo dal più grande maestro di passi Stephane Lambiel, è un’archivio di passati tracciati. Particolarmente belli anche da vedere incisi come una stampa d’arte sul ghiaccio, di certo questi esercizi rendevano i pattinatori di inizio secolo particolarmente eclettici nelle varie discipline di pattinaggio artistico, dal libero alla coppia danza.IMG_5878.JPG
Special figures by Nikolai Panin at the 1908 Summer Olympics

L’approfondimento del signor Nikolai continua su Wikipedia dove non manca citare il fatto che degli “Special Figure” ci fu anche una gara:

Special figures were a component of figure skating in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Like compulsory figures, special figures involved tracing patterns on the ice with the blade of one ice skate. This required the skater to display significant balance and control while skating on one foot.

While compulsory figures were standard patterns derived from the figure 8, the special figures were elaborate patterns of the skaters’ own invention. These designs included rosettes, stars, crosses, and other elaborate curlicues. The building blocks for special figures included not only the elements of the standard compulsory figures, but shapes known as beaks, spectacles, and cross-cuts.

Tracing of elaborate patterns on the ice was a characteristic of the American and British schools of figure skating. By the early 20th century, this had been largely displaced by the “International Style” of free skating which utilized the entire ice surface and featured more athletic movements set to music.

Special figures was an event in the 1908 Summer Olympic Games.Nikolai Panin of Russia won the event.

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