Say,we've been talking a lot about Off-Ice-Trainning lately....and we know a lot of skaters do it. But...do we know of any record in History that tells us..EXACTLY when...and WHO the first skater(s) in History was to ever do Off-Ice-Trainning,and make it a reg. part of their routine?

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I don't think we can answer that question. But I do know that Sonja Henie studied ballet - she took dance lessons before she started skating, and continued her study of dance specifically to help her skating. We know this because her brother says so in a book about her that he helped to write. She was born in 1912, began dancing when she was about 2, and skating when she was 5.

Dorothy Hamill talks about her off ice regimen in her autobiography as well - she stationary biked and then had issues with her jumps.

Talking about ballet...Mao Asada is a great ballerina!

Historically, I don't know, but I imagine just about all skaters have had dance lessons and do some kind of cardio. I think most skaters jog, at least for a warm up. Pairs train all of their lifts off ice first. Don't know when this started, but it must have a long history.

Kay

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Kay has more of the idea to what I'm talking about. Does anyone know the answer?

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In the children's books White Boots, written in the late 1940s or early 1950s, the skaters all expect to do ballet and fencing as part of their off-ice training.

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Let's go with Jackson Haines in the 1860's because he was a trained ballet dancer who started figure skating.

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