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I recently read a post on a forum by a beginner skater, asking if it was a given that to start skating it was necessary to start ballet.
There is no easy answer for this. Obviously a person who takes ballet class is going to have some preconceptions about how to hold and carry oneself, but this doesn't by any means make it a prerequisite for figure skating.