Being able to control your edges at all times means that your jumps, spins and footwork will be much more solid. A tool called the scribe which is really a large compass is used to make a tracing onto the ice that you follow. As adults excel at this aspect of skating, and as they can make their presence known, figures will continue to be made. The televised skating you watch that involves doing axels, those other triple and double jumps with the odd names, and spins, is called Freestyle. It s generally the most common type that people associate when they link skating with names like Dick Button, Michelle Kwan, Sonja Henie, Tara Lipinski, Peggy Fleming, Elvis Stojko, Scott Hamilton, etc.
All freestyle skating is performed to music.
In amateur skating, i.e. Olympic eligible, skaters can only use instrumental music. But when an amateur skater does an exhibition or an officially sanctioned event, lyrics can be used. Freestyle skating is more than just being able to do triple jumps and a variety of spins. Routines are comprised of certain required elements, but for the adult skater they are not nearly as stringent as they are for the competitor with Olympian goals. Maybe you ve taken ballroom dance or want to.