Word: squate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tickner came to serious skating at an age when most coaches felt he was too old to reach world-class standards: during his freshman year in college. He had to go back to work on his compulsory figures, those painstaking loops and turns that judges squat to scrutinize like the Rosetta stone. He has never caught up with the class; school figures remain his weakest point. But naysayers who insist that the double lutzes and triple salchows are jumps that have to be grooved into muscle memory before a boy is old enough to shave have been proved wrong...