What are US Figure Skating, ISI, Skate Canada, NISA, etc?
United States Figure Skating (former USFSA) is the organization with the tie-in to the International Skating Union (ISU), and the one which sponsors the U.S. National Championships (and all the competitions leading up to it) that result in the world team being picked. US Figure Skating runs a “learn to skate” program, schedules tests and runs competitions. Skate Canada (formerly known as Canadian Figure Skating Association or CFSA) runs programs which are roughly parallel to the US Figure Skating program. They start with Canskate, which is a learn-to-skate program, followed by Canfigureskate (basically a children’s’ program) and “test stream”. Other ISU member countries have got their own National skating associations with similar aims as the US Figure Skating and Skate Canada and their own skating programs, such as DEU (Deutsche Eislauf-Union) in Germany, NISA (National Ice Skating Association) in UK, FFSG (Fédération Française des Sports de Glace) in France, etc. ISI (Ice Skating Ins
