Important Ice Skating Vocab Words

Hello ice skaters and welcome back to another post, today I am going to show you a bunch of important and common vocab ice skaters use, that you should definitely know as a beginner or if you decide to start ice skating. So lets get started

1. Edges- edges are not just a move but, edges are used all the time in skating. In skating there are two kinds of edges, your inside and outside. Picture this put your feet shoulder with apart then with your feet lean in, this is called your inside, now put your feet shoulder with apart again and lean to your outside, this is your outside edge. Edges are commonly used in moves in the field and dance sequences where you will be going from an inside to an outside back and forth in one kind of move, or there are moves practicing one of the edges.
2. Rotation-rotation is used for jumping in ice skating, NOT revolutions, which is used for something else! Rotations is the amount of time in the air such as a waltz jump is half of a rotation which means the skater takes off and jumps half of a full rotation, if you watch ice skating on TV, you will notice that most of them are doing triples if not quads also depending on gender, when they are doing triple they are doing three rotations.
3. Revolutions-revolutions are used in spinning, when you see someone spin each time they complete one full circle in a spin that counts as one revolution. Yet spins are hard to count by revolution unless you got a slow spinner at your rink, some spins like the scratch spin as soon as you wind up and start spinning 3-5 revolutions are pretty automatic. Some skaters even try to count how many revolutions they make it in a spin!
4.  Moves in the Field- moves in the field is a king of test referring to the USFS company, this test looks at your ability to do certain kind of moves involving edges (explained above). They look at your edge quality mostly, in moves in the field you are able to move up if you pass but note when taking the test you have judges and they are tougher on you as you go up in levels. There is also a freeskate which they look at your jumps and spins through out a program, you must pass the moves test before the freeskate.
5. Jumps/spins- jumps and spins may seem like an obvious vocab, but people who skate ask a figure skater can you do tricks once they see that the figure skater can do jumps and spins. Of course as the figure skater is thinking what tricks?, I am not a dog. So think of jumps as if you were just trying to to touch your roof from the ground well you got to jump to reach it unless you are tall or your roof is short. Same with spins if you see people turning around really fast in a centered position they are probably spinning of some sort. 
6. Traveling- traveling is defined as a spin that does not finish where it started, you can usually spot on ice because it leaves a trace that looks like a tornado, the opposite of traveling would be centered (defined below). When a skater travels you can see that they are moving away from their circle. Imagine standing right next to someone spinning if you notice they are moving away from you they are traveling. Even if you were a distance from someone spinning and they are getting close to you they are traveling. 
7. Centered/centering- centering is used as a term in spinning. A centered spin you can easily spot looking at the marks on ice. If you look closely, a centered spin should leave the marking looking like circles over lapping circles creating one big circle. You can also say that a centered spin is a spin that starts in one place and finishes where it started. You can see through person, if you watch someone spin, look carefully know where they start do they finish where they started or are they traveling? 

All right now that you have learned some of the most important vocab words in iceskating and the most commonly used/talked about, you are all prepared, so next time a coach says one of these words you know exactly what he/she means. So happy skating.