| How do figure skating jumps get learned? Everybody | | | | would all figure out how it works to some degree. |
| knows that when it comes to figure skating, jumps are | | | | Fortunately, for those that can't quite "figure it out" |
| king. Is it inherent talent that propels the good jumpers? | | | | there are always accordion lessons to take them from |
| Is it all in their heads? Can it be a learned talent? | | | | accordion wannabe to accordion jock. |
| Going back to your grade school days there were | | | | OK, enough about jocks and accordions. Let's get |
| always kids that were truly gifted in sports and then of | | | | back to figure skating. (Am I rambling enough for you?) |
| course there were those that thought baseballs were | | | | Who teaches figure skaters how to jump? The coach |
| square. Zero in on the kids in between, the jock | | | | teaches them. Where did the coach learn how to |
| wannabes. What was inside the jock that the | | | | jump? They learned from their coach (and in many |
| wannabes didn't have? There are probably a lot of | | | | cases it was years ago.) Is the coach a jock or is the |
| books out there on how the brain works and I doubt | | | | coach a wannabe? It could make a difference. For as |
| that my little brain could even figure out what they're | | | | important as jumps are in figure skating shouldn't |
| talking about. But I have to believe that anything and | | | | somebody be coaching the coach especially if the |
| everything can be learned and that the jocks had that | | | | coach was always a wannabe jumper? How many |
| kind of knowledge already in their brains. Heck, nobody | | | | figure skating coaches are still a wannabes when it |
| was ever born already knowing how to play the | | | | comes to jumps? What exactly are they teaching? |
| accordion but if you gave ten kids an accordion they | | | | |