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The men at this level of competition
worldwide competition are expected to be able to do quads in some of the jumps
and the women are expected to do triples
uh... the american skaters have had some difficulty learning a lot of these so
uh... we thought we'd take a more scientific approach to developing of their skills in
this area
we collect their data on a computer so we capture their motion and we recreate a mathematical image
of the body
the mathematical image is one that we can manipulate
so as the skater leaves the ice moves into the air
uh... their goal is to get into a position that allows them to spin as fast as possible
and then that enables them to complete the maximum number of rotations while they're
in the air
we can take the skaters position in the air we can change their arm positions we can change
their leg positions we can change their head position
and then run the computer program back through and let it
perform the jump as if that's what the skater did this is not only the only place it's happening
in the U.S. is the only place that this is being done in the world over that we are aware of
there's no nothing else like this