Comite International de Patinage Artistique
The Pairs Package
Should Include:
- LIFTS - overheads - combinations - twist & throw
- JUMPS
- SPINS - contact - shadow - DEATH Spirals
- FOOTWORK - contact - shadow - mirror
Should Show:
- Arrangement
- Interpretation
- Skating Skill
- Balance of Content Items
- Musical Interpretation
- Choreographed to use all the skating surface in an interesting manner
A PAIRS TEAM SHOULD:
- Skate as a UNIT
- Demonstrate UNISON
- Present to the judge an interesting PACKAGE
UNISON IS:
- The ability of two bodies to appear as one
- Good unison requires matching of all movements
- Unison gives the impression of true team performance (one UNIT)
- Good unison is the finishing touch to a good pairs routine
- A team displaying good unison should receive maximum credit on the "A" and "B" mark for the level of their technical ability
UNISON
Will be difficult to achieve if the skaters in a pairs team do not have a similar standard of skating skill level
GENERAL COMMENTS
When marking free-skating of any sort it is not necessarily the skater or team with the most difficult item of content who wins the competition
It is the:
- level of difficulty
- variety
- balance
- choreography
- relationship to music
- general quality, strength & confidence of the:
- OVERALL performance which is assessed
In PAIRS skating the additional item of UNISON is of paramount importance in the assessment of the PACKAGE and is the finishing touch to the ultimate aim of a polished performance.
LESS CREDIT for PAIRS packages which show:
- routine is unbalanced
- repeated content
- too many of one type of content
- a content group not presented at all
- poor choreography and poor use of the skating surface
- difficult items poorly performed
- poor unison and poor body control
- no footwork (or very little) to link content items
- performance does not relate to the music
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