worldfiguresport - World Figure Sport

Black Ice: Where Skating Becomes Art

by worldfiguresport November 18, 2025November 18, 2025Comments are Disabled

The black ice at the World Figure & Fancy Skating Championships is truly an experience that every skater should witness. It is more than a surface—it is a canvas where every edge, turn, jump, and spin leaves a visible trace, transforming movement into a living work of art. On black ice, skating becomes both a …

Where does the term Fancy Skating come from?

by worldfiguresport January 13, 2025April 10, 2025Comments are Disabled

The term Fancy Skating is etched into a golden history and is on the cover of a literary masterpiece titled, Figure and Fancy Skating, by George A. Meagher, 1895, published by Bliss, Sands and Foster in London. This document was published in the beautiful era (la belle époque), and coincided with a beautiful era in …