Recent content by gkelly

Interesting analysis. Back in the 1990s, I mentally choreographed a short program to this music that was designed as a retrograde of what we might have seen at the time from a senior man who didn't have a triple axel. I think the elements were, more or less in order: Back-to-front combination...

What Jackson Haines did was to create the concept of figure skating as performing art by bringing his knowledge from his off-ice career as a dancer onto the ice, both on his own and with costars. He did not create "ice dance" as either a partnered or a solo competition discipline. But his...

The proposal #182 is to delete the fall deduction from the total segment score and instead to penalize falls on jumps by halving the base value. Rationale: "Reasons: 1. As criteria how to deal with falls under Program Components are more defined now, the additional reduction for falls from the...

It was Mozart - Fantasia in d minor, which I only know because it was the last piece I was working on when I quit piano lessons at 12 or 13.

I don't know her reasons. Possibly to use this event for qualifying to the National Solo Dance Final.

Not in that case Of course, it's highly likely that a quint attempt would be severely underrotated, in which case it might well be called as a quad

How would a double walley be marked? Would it just be ignored? Probably the same for any jump not in the SoV.

According to the article, "While she was filming season 25 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit on April 10, a little girl who had lost her mom made a beeline for Hargitay, thinking she was a real police officer based on the actress' prop badge." Not because the child had seen the show on TV...

Any estimate on how many people attended?

Before 2001, Junior Worlds took place earlier in the season than any of the senior ISU championships, so it was quite common for skaters to compete at JW and then move on to Euros (or 4Cs in its very brief existence that overlapped with December JW) and/or Worlds later in the same season. I.e...

It was the Duchesnays that first got me interested in ice dance.

Looking out my bedroom window, I saw a small bird (sparrow?) sitting on the corner of the balcony above mine. Over the course of a minute or two, another bird of the same species would climb on top of it and flap its wings for a few seconds, then get off, then come back a few seconds later...

Cats would be good jumpers because they always land on their feet. And not being bothered to learn a choreographed program would not be that different from some human jump-focused skaters.

Yes, Thursday. Another half day off work to accomplish that. But then I might even get to the part of the drive that's unfamiliar while there's still some daylight.

Well, I want to go from DC area to New Jersey next week and it doesn't look as though there's a reasonable route that bypasses Baltimore entirely. I'll try to leave early enough to avoid the worst of rush hour and either take the tunnel or the west side of the beltway.