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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's popular but a much different skating skill[/quote]

No, I play in a women's league from time to time after figure skating through the gold level as a kid, and the skating skills are very transferable.  You just assume a deeper knee bend and remember not to stand upright, but I can "hockey" skate as well, if not better, than the former D1 player on my women's team.  It was a very easy transition.  The edges are essentially the same.  The rocker and the lack of picking take about a week to adjust to.  Where I am absolutely incompetent is in hand-eye coordination.  I can't complete or receive a pass because I never played a hand-eye sport.  I play defense and just disrupt play, but outskating people.  [/quote]

It's much more difficult to go in reverse, from hockey to figure skating.

There is a pre Olympic IG video of Isabella Levito and some men's olympic hockey player trying each other's skills and drills.

Isabella was actually able to pick up the hockey skills quite easily, albeit slowly.

The hockey player struggled quite obviously at any attempts to do tge figure skating skills.[/quote]

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