Figure Skating Resources
Learn Stuff
@sywtwfs - start here, as So You Want To Watch Figure Skating has lots of useful basic info, plus competition times + how to watch them, as well as breakdowns of CoP updates
the-real-xmonster’s tech posts on jumps, spins, and steps (+spirals)
illyria-and-her-pet’s detailed guide to steps and step sequence breakdowns
Skate Guard Blog is a cornucopia of figure skating history posts
ISU handbooks for singles/pairs and ice dance - sometimes you just gotta go to the source
ice-dance.com has dance pattern information and charts, as well as a listing of compulsory/short/rhythm dances for each season back to 1968
wtficedance website/twitter explains technical aspects of ice dance as well as singles/pairs elements (this and above shared by beautifulstorms - thanks!)
Search Technical Elements
SkatingScores - searchable protocols and elements, stats, and score calculator
Figure Skating Elements Search - search elements by skater/year/competition back to 2003. The site is Japanese, but the search form is in English, so it should be easy to figure out
Search Results
Skatabase - searchable entries and results by many factors back to the earliest days days of the sport, including the smaller competitions I’ve tried entering; national competitions do not go back as far
RinkResults - search competition results by skater/competition/competition series/country represented, as well as highest-scoring elements; also attempts to provide a video for every program on the same page as the score sheet (shared by aitlu, thanks!)
Search Costumes
@figureskatingcostumes - Costumes tagged by skater, discipline, year, country, and sometimes other attributes like details or color.
Search Music
Figure skating wiki - has most music used by the most popular skaters, typically more recent ones
Frogs on Ice - music for well known skaters, 1992~1996
Tadaaki Masuda’s list - music by season and sometimes by discipline, 1979~1997
Maeno’s Skating Music Page - sorted by season/discipline/music source, 1997~2006, covers quite a few skaters
Skate Music List - you can’t search any more now that it’s only on the Internet Archive, but the drop-downs by season/name/music source still get you to pages. 1976~2006 or so.
If you are looking for a specific song, I would also recommend using site:en.wikipedia.org on Google + the words ‘figure skater’ or ‘ice dancer’, as many skaters have their programs listed on their pages. (Wikipedia has a native category search, but I found it kind of janky.)
Creative Commons Photos
Wikimedia Commons - sorted by skater/year/costume color (here) /etc. There are several photographers who upload regularly
Phantom Kabocha’s Photos - sorted by skater/competition, 2012-present. Many beautiful photos, and they are all CC-by!
Selected Video Sources
ISU - some technical videos and full replays of recent competitions, and as of this season, individual videos of skaters/pairs. You may need a VPN to access some replays depending on your country
HD full Olympic replays
Olympic Channel - popular Olympic programs (many under ‘Music Monday’) and some misc. things like fluff and Olympic compilations
Olympic Channel Figure Skating - still gearing up as of the time of this post, but same type of content as above, except without all the other sports mixed in on the channel
Mintaka Alnilam - HD videos from the 90s and early 2000s 🤩 Midori Ito (and many others!) in 1080p!
Mintaka Alnilam Annex - other great historical videos that are less HD than on their main channel
3axel1996 - 1977 to 1998, early 2000s
floskate - mostly 1960s to 1990s, but also some earlier footage
Ryan Stevens - Skate Guard Blog’s Youtube channel; mostly 90s
Hyacinth B. - mostly full US TV replays, mostly 90s and early 2000s
GoldenAgeofFS - late 60s to early 2000s
sabinfire - 2014 to 2017, good quality videos and some full replays
On-Ice Perspectives - videos filmed on ice with the skaters
germann1968 - has uploaded an old ISU training video series on what the different components are supposed to mean, including examples (there is a more modern one on the ISU channel as well)
Planet Hanyu archives - Yuzu-focused, but also has some other skaters and some full replays, nicely organized, competitions from 2011 onward - note: most videos do not play if you disable third-party cookies (also shared by beautifulstorms)
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It's coach-change anon. I found the program! So it's a medley of "Magalenha" (Sergio Mendes), "Eres todo en mi" (Ana Gabriel), and "Tres Deseos" (Gloria Estefan). Source: figureskatingcostumes Tumblr /post/74527676915/tessa-virtue-and-scott-moir-skating-their-free - Absolutely no videos yet, though. *sadpanda*
Ooooh thank you so much! Clearly your researching skills are a lot better than mine! Still hoping for videos, there has to be one somewhere. *hopefulpanda*
Thanks coach-change anon :)
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My completed #figureskatingcostume for university, based on a concept design for Yuri On Ice! I absolutely loved making this #costume, and yesterday's photoshoot went really well - here's some quick photos I took before the actual shoot. @cssdlondon #voyagercostume
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