An American, Jackson Haines, is considered to be the founding father of modern figure skating in the 1860s — established not in his home country, but in Vienna, Austria, where audiences loved ...

It’s called figure skating because skaters originally did patterns, such as a figure “8” on the ice. Before the Civil War, when Jackson Haines, known as the father of figure skating, first ...

Ice skating became very popular during the 19th century and its popularity continued to grow into the early 20th century. Cold winters during that time period frequently froze ponds, lakes, and ...

A portrait of Jackson Haines, figure skating's founding father, hangs in the Vienna Skating Club. There is a street in Prague named after him.

Jackson Haines, an American ballet dancer, is credited with modernizing the sport. Like other sports played by the aristocracy, figure skating is essentially a product of white privilege, and its ...

U. S. figure skaters have long wanted to celebrate Jackson Haines’s birthday. But nobody — not even the late Irving Brokaw, whose Art of Skating is the figure skater’s bible — had ever ...

4. Jackson Haines brings flair to figure skating // mid-1800s Jackson Haines, an American figure skater in the mid-1800s, had some crazy ideas about the sport.

But figure skating has roots in the United States, too; Jackson Haines, born in New York in 1840, capitalized on a dancing and skating craze in the leadup to the Civil War.

Although I love watching all types of skating (if no longer participating) it’s impossible to ignore the absence of Black and brown figure skaters in the competitive and professional ranks. Is a ...

But figure skating has roots in the United States, too; Jackson Haines, born in New York in 1840, capitalized on a dancing and skating craze in the leadup to the Civil War.