Ice skating

because of a connecting variable, but are not occurring as a result of one another. Causation is when a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another factor. An example of a positive correlation is ice skating and the avalanches. It would be weird if ice skating was a cause of avalanches. An actual cause of both of those things that link them is the cold weather. Between correlation and causation, it is much harder to prove that one variable causes something else to happen…

Never give up on what you love to do I have been skateboarding for over 3 years now. Believe it or not, it has really taught me alot. I was around 11 years old when I had decided to start taking skateboarding seriously. This is when my passion for it had started growing and when I had began learning tricks and progressing. The idea of skateboarding didn't…

and vandalism, but it is simply a recreational activity. There are two types of skateboarding, street skating, which involves many tricks with the skateboard, and ramp skating. I prefer to skate on a ramp. At my house, I have a half pipe. I skate almost everyday with my brother, since it is convenient in my back yard.…

The Physics Behind Figure Skating Growing up as a child, I always went to the RDV and saw girls my age participating in figure skating. That is when my fascination began. However, I could not join because I was already committed to dancing. Additionally, a movie came out on Disney Channel when I was younger; it was called Ice Princess. The movie centered on a girl focused on physics and she had a similar project as mine: looking at the physics of ice-skating. As she spent time videotaping and…

Ice Breaker Exercise In the first round of the exercise, I felt more comfortable being part of the triangle with people that I knew. It felt awkward at first when I tried to do the triangle with other people that I did not know, but then I realized that that was the main idea of the exercise. Towards the end of the first round, we all were surrounded by somebody else; there was not such a big of a space between us. I felt that we needed to work with each other in order to form the triangle. In…

house. I was at my friends house and we played at his house. We then went to get my other friend to go skate. Next we went to go skate. We got to the school where we go skate all the time. We skated there for a while and then we went home. We were skating. At my neighbor's house and then we go to the store to get drinks and chips. We come back and skate in front of my friends house but on the way I hit a rock and fell on my head. I was knocked out for a few seconds. My friends got me up and…

friend’s party, where we all went ice skating for her 9th birthday. It was my first ever time stepping onto the ice, a long time before my life revolved around the sport. Even though I had never skated before, my friends and their parents told me that I stood out compared to the other girls. After I realised how much I enjoyed it, my mum decided to sign me up for the learn to skate program, where I progressed through the levels and soon learnt the basics of ice skating. After completing all the…

Introduction As a figure skater with an enthusiasm for figure skating for many years, my choice of investigation for my internal assessment came to me quite easily. I have been a figure skater for eleven years and during this period I have been able to deepen my knowledge of the relationship between body coordinates and movements/positions of figure skating. I will be investigating the relationship between the body’s initial and interim positions and the outcome of a figure skater’s trajectory…

In my last paper, I explored the relationship between the loop jump and the beautiful body, ice skating, and the nation and how that relationship reveals the views of America. However, what I failed to examine in that paper was the threat black bodies pose to the world of sports’ ideals of beauty, rules of perfection and standard of a world class athlete. In this paper I will use the cases of Serena Williams and Surya Bonaly to explore how their bodies and the lines their bodies create…

As I was reading a book about figure skating I got from the library one day, I turned to a page titled “Advanced Jumps”. I was about twelve, and I was not nearly ready for most of the jumps on that page, especially the second hardest one, a lutz jump. I had seen a lutz before, and I knew that it was the second hardest single jump besides an axel, which has an extra half rotation. I had never even done a single jump before, but I immediately wanted to try a it, because I had always wondered what…