Sentence examples for skaters try from inspiring English sources
Skaters try to rack up the points move by move, especially in the jumps.
Skaters try to reveal their personalities and artistry as they interpret the music they have chosen, all while trying to up the ante on their technical skills.
Skaters try to develop a reputation with the judges to keep their names afloat and to move up in the rankings.
The contest is divided into three heats: a 45-second run, a best-trick competition and a so-called Big Section, in which skaters try to land a difficult trick on the course's largest obstacle.
On Friday, Way will again put on his pads and a show when he rides to the top of the 62-foot-high, 293-foot-long mega ramp to compete in the Big Air Rail Jam, a new feature at X Games where skaters try to slide along an arched metal rail while soaring over a 50-foot gap.
The Canadian skaters tried to remain above the fray today.
Nagasu, a 16-year-old without an ounce of introversion, finished first in the short program Thursday, ahead of all the other skaters trying to make the team for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
Long-track racing, he said, appeals to him because of its gracefulness and faster speeds, but he finds the challenge of short track — being "among a group of skaters trying to strategize, compete and make a path and turn the corner" — to be more exciting, as well as excellent preparation.
But I don't think it's fair to say to players, 'Here's a legal way to it, but you're just not allowed to do it that hard.' Players are asked to check at high speeds against skilled skaters trying to be evasive.
Entry lists are packed with skaters trying to earn enough points to reach Sochi 2014, leading to 13-hour days of racing as the field is whittled down to the lucky 32 (or 36 for the 1500m distance) who will go to the Olympics.
Boots had some real-talk advice for skaters trying to legalize skating in their own communities, adding with a laugh that just legalizing skateboarding in the one-square-block park took him ten years.
