Falling and getting up

Sitting down onto the ice on purpose, to one side, and getting back up from hands and knees.

Also called fall and get up, correct way to fall and stand up or proper way to fall and get up. Other names.

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You sink into a dip, bring the arms in to the chest, and sit down onto the ice to one side of the bottom, keeping the arms in as you go. To get up you roll forwards onto your hands and knees, bring one foot up to the ice between your hands, then the other, and stand from there. Ice Skating Australia and New Zealand’s KiwiSkate describe it in nearly the same steps, and both put it first on their first level.

Australia is specific about the feet coming up: both blades flat on the ice between the hands, with no toe picks. Its first level has the fall from standing still. At Basic 1 the skater takes three steps and a glide first, so the fall happens while moving.

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• DipIce Skating Australia and KiwiSkate both start the fall from the dip, so the skater is already in a squat when they sit down.

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