FS Basics on MSNBC.com

[dbny]

Not bad, except for one glaring error, and one very unusual quad sal entry. I emailed them about the error, which is really pretty funny.

Figure Skating Basics (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9916266)

[TreSk8sAZ]

I agree about the glaring error. It's quite amusing. I let it play for quite awhile just to watch it and get a good laugh! :D

[sceptique]

I watched it for good quarter of an hour to make sure I'm not hallicinating.
Anyone want to try that on ice? I guess the jump should be called "taxel"

[NoVa Sk8r]

The double toe exit looks like mine! :P

[Jeanmarie]

OK, I don't skate (very well ... yet), so I don't get it.
<<edit>>
....ok, nevermind .... just got my computer to play it.

[Justine_R]

Haha.
:)
Made my day.

[MQSeries]

The 3toe made me go WTF the first few times looking at it, but after watching it a couple of times, I realized that it's the background that is going in the wrong direction.

The 4sal entrance doesn't look strange. It was obviously based on Goeble's 4sal entrance.

The 3sal-3loop was based on Sarah's entrances for those jumps.

[dbny]

The 3toe made me go WTF the first few times looking at it, but after watching it a couple of times, I realized that it's the background that is going in the wrong direction.


Nope. Since the skater is facing left on the landing, she would have to be moving to the right within the frame to be going backwards. Instead, she is moving from right to left. It would not matter at all if the background were moving in the opposite direction. It's the direction of the skater that counts.

[mikawendy]

Nope. Since the skater is facing left on the landing, she would have to be moving to the right within the frame to be going backwards. Instead, she is moving from right to left. It would not matter at all if the background were moving in the opposite direction. It's the direction of the skater that counts.

...but the skater doing the double toe seems to be skating forward on her left foot after the jump (on a forward edge rather than a BO edge)

[dbny]

...but the skater doing the double toe seems to be skating forward on her left foot after the jump (on a forward edge rather than a BO edge)

Exactly. They reversed the action and the image. Think printing a negative from the wrong side, happens all the time.

[Diana]

Can I do a silly question? :oops: The most of the skaters are "right handed", why they put a "left handed" skater in this examples?

[dbny]

Can I do a silly question? :oops: The most of the skaters are "right handed", why they put a "left handed" skater in this examples?

Since it's a reversed image (mirror image) then she is a CCW (right handed) skater.