Ice Skaters move (dance) to music too

oh NO!! The "is it a sport" argument rears its head again!!
The first thing to sort out is "What EXACTLY is a sport?"
But to be honest, i think i'll just practise my dancing and not worry about whether it's a sport.
I play tennis and that's definitely a sport. I don't have to smile while i'm serving!

Hi Phil,

How often do you double fault?

In Clean Sport,
Andrew

Ususally when i smile, or when i do a heel-toe instead of a toe-ball-flat

Let's leave the balls alone now and see if we could understand the art of serving the lady
As we are on Basics, what does the engineer in you think of this?
A series of Closed Changes down LOD.
Four graphs with horizontal time-axes.
1. Forward speed
2. Rise and fall
3. Sway (displacement)
4. Angular velocity
Superimpose them.
Notice the maximum rotational speed on step 3. Is this what is being called body swing?
Also on step 3, forward progression is momentarily at rest, rise is at maximum but vertical movement has ceased and sway is at maximum but there is no horizontal movement in the moment.
Correct me if I am wrong.
It seems to me that this would explain some things clearly.

Andrew

I am a veteran athlete involved in road running and believe me when you compare that to ballroom dancing the difference between a sport and an artistic interpretation of music becomes very clearly defined indeed

I was not thinking about sports v.s. art. I was looking at the mechanics of a basic step. Personally I do believe that there is an artistic (spiritual) element in dancing but whether we like it or not we have physical bodies which move in a gravitational environment.