Figure skating lifts

Figure skating element
Element name: Lift
Scoring abbreviation: Li
Disciplines: Pair skating
Ice dancing
Synchronized skating
Pair skaters Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov perform a hand-to-hand-lift

Figure skating lifts are a required element in pair skating and ice dancing. Pairs lifts differ from dance lifts most notably in that dancers are not allowed to lift their partners above their shoulders.[1] Lifts are also executed by synchronized skating teams in the free program in competition, as part of a movements in isolation requirement.

Dance lifts

Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali perform a reverse lift.

Dance lifts are differentiated by the skating involved. There are seven kinds of lifts approved for ISU competitions. Dance lifts have become increasingly athletic.[2]

Short lifts

These lifts may last up to six seconds in competition on the senior level.

Long lifts

These lifts may last up to ten seconds in competition on the senior level.

Positions

Each position must be held for at least three seconds to count for levels. Each position is permitted only once a program.

For the lifting partner

Only two of the above spread eagle positions may be used in a single program.

For the lifted partner

Non-traditional gender roles in lifts

In ice dancing, the lifting partner is usually the man and the lifted partner is usually the woman. However, the rules allow for the woman to lift the man in competition. Notable couples who have performed "genderbending" lifts include Marina Anissina / Gwendal Peizerat, Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali and Sinead Kerr / John Kerr.

Program requirements

The International Skating Union sets down length requirements for lifts in programs and skaters are penalized if a lift goes on for too long.

For the 2006–07 season, at the senior level, the original dance required two lifts to be no longer than six seconds each. For the free dance, four lifts were required and they were separated into short and long.

Lifting partner in a one-foot position

Lifting partner in a crouching position

Lifting partner in a shoot-the-duck position

Lifting partner in a one-hand position

Lifting partner in an Ina Bauer position

Lifting partner in a lunge position

Lifting partner in a spread eagle position

Pair lifts

Rena Inoue / John Baldwin, Jr perform a hand-to-hand lift.
One-hand exit from a lift by Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov
Vanessa James / Yannick Bonheur demonstrate a star position
Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov perform a carry lift with the man in a spread eagle
Tong Jian / Pang Qing perform a twist lift

Unlike dance lifts, pair lifts are typically over the man's head. Most pair lifts are rotational, with the man turning on the ice before setting the lady down; a carry lift, by contrast, is a lift without rotation. A lift's score may be affected by

Lifts are grouped by the holds involved. The ISU defines five different groups of pair lifts, with an ascending difficulty level, although levels 3 and 4 are the same level of difficulty.[3] In ISU senior level competition, the man must rotate more than one times, but fewer than three a half. Lifts that go on longer may receive deductions. The group is determined by the hold held at the moment the woman passes the man's shoulder in the lift.[4]

Lifts are named by either their takeoff and landing edges (in which case, they are named after the jump with the same sort of takeoff), the air position, or the method in which the lady is raised into the air.[5]

Types of lifts

Group 1: Armpit-hold lifts

Group 2: Waist-hold lifts

Group 3: Hand-to-hip lifts

Group 4: Hand-to-hand (press lift types)

Group 5: Hand-to-hand (lasso lift types)

Lasso lifts are either forward or reverse. In reverse, the woman begins the lift skating backward. In forward, she is skating forward.[5] In the helicopter variation, the skaters perform a forward lasso lift, but the woman changes position at the top of the lift, parallel to the ice, with her back arched and her legs spread in a V position, so that as the man turns, her legs look like the blades on a helicopter.[5]

Lasso lifts, in order of increasing difficulty:[8]

Positions

For the lifting partner

The lifting partner has two possible positions:

For the lifted partner

There are three basic air positions for the lifted partner.[4]

Illegal positions

Kyoko Ina / John Zimmerman perform a one-handed "detroiter"
A headbanger lift on the "down swing"

Any hold not listed above is illegal in ISU competitions, however, they may appear in show skating.

Twist lifts

Main article: Twist lifts

Program requirements

In ISU senior-level competition, lifts may not last longer than three and a half rotations by the lifting partner. Lifts that last longer may be penalized. Lifts without rotations are called carry lifts and are allowed once in the long program.

Requirements may vary from season to season. For the 2006–07 season, pairs competing on the senior level were required to perform a maximum of three lifts, with one from group 3 or 4, and one twist lift in the long program. The short program required a hand-to-hand lift take-off from group 4, and a twist lift. In 2007–08, a lasso-lift take-off (Group five) was required on the senior level.

References

  1. ↑ 体育英语 Sports English. 2004, p. 109
  2. ↑ Brannen, Sarah S. (13 July 2012). "Dangerous drama: Dance lifts becoming 'scary'". Icenetwork.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Special Regulations & Technical Rules: Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance 2012" (PDF). International Skating Union. 30 June 2012.
  4. 1 2 "Communication No. 1445" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2007.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Yamaguchi, Kristi; Christy Ness; Jody Meacham (1997). Figure Skating for Dummies. Hungry Minds. ISBN 0-7645-5084-5.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Know Your Skating: Glossary". Skate Canada. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
  7. 1 2 "Glossary of Terms". U.S. Figure Skating. Retrieved 2007-10-24.
  8. ↑ "Communication No. 2000 SINGLE & PAIR SKATING Scale of Values, Levels of Difficulty and Guidelines for marking Grade of Execution, season 2016/17" (PDF). International Skating Union. 21 April 2016.
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