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Figure Skaters Speed Skating Challenge | Failed!!
Huge difference for Yuzuru Hanyu in competition mode vs private mode
So what's the difference between figure skating and speed skating?
And joining us now is someone who has spent a lot of time on the skates!
Yeah Dave Cruikshank, the former olympic speed skater.
You've brought a lot of different skates here and you're going to educate us a little bit about the differences between them
Yeah we've got our pile of skates here and they're quite a bit different
for the people and the folks out there that don't know much about it.. Your first comment was the different size of the blades
So we go from a figure skate here that has a little bit shorter of a blade and has actually a pick on the end
so they can actually do a lot of their maneuvers and their jumping ability
Then we transition over into what you guys see with a short track speed skate
which is mounted with a very stiff boot here. Um a little bit more radius there. Really stiff because
you see them when they go in the corners and they have a lot of pivot and there's a lot of traffic
so they really have to jockey for position requires a little stiffer boots
Fun Competition Next: Top Figure Skaters take on Top Speed Skaters [Team China]
Wu Dajing (Olympic Speed Skating Champion) vs Tong Jian (Olympic Pair Figure Skating Silver Medalist)
Let's introduce these 2 Chinese Athletes
China has taken its first gold at the winter olympics in Pyeongchang
as speed skater Wu Dajing won the men's 500 meters short track and he did so in style too!
Breaking the world record he had set in the quarterfinal
And next up, Pang Qing and Tong Jian of China. World champions back in 2006.
They're on the podium for sure! I think I can say that! They have worked so hard for this!
They've been spent hours and hours working on the relationship on the ice not just the tricks
and to be able to skate a performance like that!
That was free and joyous, technically strong but enough to move this audience to their feet
Have you ever tried Short Track Speed Skating?
Never. Actually these are two totally different sports.
Our blades are shorter and there's the toe picks
Whereas the blades for speed skating are longer to help them to speed up
And our blades are designed for spinning and jumping
Let's start the game!!
Tong Jian tripped by the toe pick of his blades
Pang Qing: This is nothing for us the figure skaters. We got tripped all the time!
Only figure skaters will understand this. We got tripped by the toe pick all the time..
Toe pick is making and breaking us! We love and hate it!
Wu Dajing is skating super fast! Superb! (Figure Skating Fans: Of course, he is a speed skater!!)
Tong Jian: Looks like I have to show you what figure skaters are made of! Skating backwards! You speed skaters sure can't do it!
I feel more comfortable skating backwards haha!
Can you beat me on that?!
Oh figure skaters skate faster backward!!??
Who said speed skaters can't skate backward??!
Yes you can skate backwards but super slow! You can change your name to "slow skater" instead of speed skater :P
Speed skater: ...
And the speed skaters won the first round without any doubt!
Figure skater finished not so far behind! Well done!
Going into second round, figure skater team is allowed a weapon to make up for their disadvantage on the skates
Weapon: The speed skater should skate while carrying 400 balloons on their back!
Oh my god!
Hang Tianyu (Youngest speed skater in the Chinese team): Why me??!!
The faster you skate, the greater the hindering force from the balloons..
Be careful speed skater
Let's introduce the two skaters this round
Speed skater: Hang Tianyu vs Figure Skater: Pang Qing (Both are World Champion)
Now the figure skater team has greater chance of winning!
That's a really huge challenge!!!
Figure Skater: Hahaha, I can take my own sweet time to skate..
A few moment ago, Speed skater Hang Tianyu to Figure Skater team: You guys will surely lose! You have no chance!!
Carrying balloon is really challenging!
Figure skater won this round!
Like the ice!
Moral of the story: Never say you will win too early!
This is so fun! Indeed not easy!!
A few moment earlier.. Speed skating team coach: We are here just for fun and to relax..
School is too easy!
OMG this is so tiring!!
Coach: Let's use this method as our training in the future..
Commentator: I'm so sorry to give this idea to your coach! I just saw her ordering balloons on her phone just now..
You need to make school more challenging or else my son will fall behind..
Coach: That's right! One more training method for you guys!!
Speed Skaters: What??! This is unfair!!
Coach: We will use this as our core training going forward :D
Speed skater: No...
Fun Facts Time!
Wu Dajing broke the World Record for Short Track Speed skating in Olympic 2018, finishing 500m with 39.584 seconds. The speed is 45 km/h
For figure skating: For a quad jump skaters spend less than 0.7 seconds in the air
They have to leave around half a meter to be at the optimum height to land a quadruple jump
For a quintuple jump, more rotational energy is needed at takeoff to increase angular momentum
They also need to jump higher and most importantly spin faster averaging nearer 400 rpm
400 RPM = 151 km/h = More than 3 times the record speed of short track speed skating! That's superhuman!
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