Technical Elements Quotes

As experimentation becomes more complex, the need for the co-operation in it of technical elements from outside becomes greater and the modern laboratory tends increasingly to resemble the factory and to employ in its service increasing numbers of purely routine workers.

When I watch my skating when I was younger, I definitely see all this balletic movement and this artistry come through.

I'm a big believer in keeping the stage directions really tight.

I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

I have great artistry, I can spin well, I have good footwork, and I can jump. I can do the quad jump, and I've done it multiple times in competition. It's definitely a jump that I have in my arsenal. I like to think of myself as the complete skater.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

Skating is really hard, especially women's skating where we're judged in little tiny dresses.

So the programs all start to all look the same. I watched one free skating competition, and I thought I was watching a short program. Everyone was doing exactly the same elements.

To have all of these jumps in my arsenal is very beneficial. I can always alter my program so I can either play it safe, or I can play it risky with high reward. It depends on what I feel like I need that day.

The challenge is to balance the technical elements and what is required of us with being artists and telling a story.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

When the rules of judging skating in international competition changed in 2004 with the goal of making judging more transparent, one of the consequences was the rewarding of skaters who attempt more challenging technical elements in the pursuit of ever more points.

Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.

If you don't know a lot about figure skating, it's easy to fall in love with ice dancing because it's so romantic and so theatrical.

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win.

Skating is a very subjective sport where fans have their favorites.

I know roughly when I skate a good program where the score should end up.

Pairs skating and singles are two different things. Although some skaters have achieved this successfully, it is a very difficult transition. You're looking at double work.

In figure skating, you have four minutes to do your best. It's your time; you do your best.