Note: World Figure Sport has expanded the Figure Artworks demonstrated in this series of three Apple iBooks and the matching DVD. These fundamentals remain relevant and applicable today for all skaters, coaches, and aficionados, World Figure Sport has incorporated all of them and many more into the current WFS Skating Exam Catalog. WFS Global Members …
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Pre-dating skating, a figure is a named pattern of movement. Our skating forebears soon realized that performing a figure on ice leaves behind tracings, or figure artwork, that stand alone as visual art. They sought to retrace the same tracing to improve the visual appeal of the figure artwork. Free figures do not retrace themselves, …
In the simplest of terms, a Figure is an on-ice artwork that is imprinted (also known as a tracing) into the ice by an ice skater’s blades. Every type of ice skating blades (figure, hockey, and speed) all leave tracings behind on the ice. A Figure Artworks has a pattern with a specific shape/form for …
Figure and Fancy Skating, or the term “Fancy Skating” is an Athletic Skating Art, performed with or without music and is the only art or sport that imprints art on the ice, combined with flights of fancy and spinning art. Fancy Skating embodies an unlimited repertoire comprised of the entire skating alphabet built from the …
February 15, 2026 Dear Mrs. Kelly, Congratulations! World Figure Sport has been selected by Toller International as a recipient of the Toller 50 No One Rises Alone Award. This award recognizes that no one succeeds without support and guidance along the way—no one makes it to the podium without help. Founded in 2024, Toller International is dedicated …