- Black Ice: Where Skating Becomes Artby worldfiguresportThe 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 worldfiguresportThe 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 …
