Added on Feb 26 2009
Years ago, beautiful designs were skated on clean ice in the shape of a figure eight. These complex designs were called figures and that is why Figure Skating is called FIGURE Skating. In 2008, US Figure Skating Gold Medalist, Debbie Weinstein Minter, performed an original figure that included many figure skating turns, loops, and edges. This video shows her artistic and original "figure performance." She named it "Compost Heap" becuase it had a "little of everything all mixed together."
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