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 ...

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. CBC Sports · Posted: Dec 02, 2009 6:01 PM EST | Last ...

But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In New York City, trained dancer Jackson Haines grew tired of the rigidity of the English style and developed his own interpretation of figure skating that included dancing and jumps choreographed ...

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.