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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean by 'edge work'?[/quote]

The bottom of a skate blade is not flat. It's concave. Very skilled skaters are always on either one edge or the other. It take tremendous control to skate on those edges. The little movements, twists, are particularly hard. If you've ever seen a figure skater doing actual figures, you will see the results of the edge work in the patterns they lay down on the ice. Most figure skaters can't really do this stuff any more. Ice dancers still do.[/quote]

Remember when the Olympics required not just the short and long programs but also the compulsory figures?
 Lol!  Those were the good old days.  I still remember how we all held our breath in 1984 when it was Katarina Witt vs Debbie Williams and how Debbie had like a .008 advantage (or something equally ridiculous) going into the actual skating.  God, the pressure that built up on some of these Olympians bc of manufactured geopolitical drama was unreal.  [/quote]

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