Tracing is that final touch and the most sophisticated to me, of all the learning processes. Unfortunately, tracing becomes an overstressed project. You have to learn where to look and exactly what you are looking at. In tracing, you see only what is necessary. The question becomes, “What are we after?” Are we after the tracing of the wiggles or are we after the flowing circle? to me, tracing is the icing on the cake. It is a difficult learning process to see what your relationship to your foot is, due to the fact that you have to look down with your head, or you have to move your eyes in relationship to where you are standing. It is very difficult to move your head without starting to break at the waist. I think some good examples of watching someone who is tracing instead of skating, is he skater who you witness doing a bracket or a three-turn and they suddenly have to snap their head and twist their arm to see if the traced the line. Roller figure skating had more to offer than any other type of figure skating. there is no need for forced or strained positions ot produce accurate tracings. In roller figures, the beauty of movement, the positions of the head, arm, and general grace are used in competition as an added means by which to distinguish between skaters who differ markedly in such respects.