Recent content by backspin

I was there as a coach & loved seeing all the skating at all levels! Something that hadn't really registered with me before -- since most adults are doing single jumps (not worth a ton of points), those events are won on the PCS scores. So even the lower levels had some really beautiful skating...

I'm choreographing a FS program for a student; haven't done one in a long time! With the ever shifting sands of rule changes -- I know it's now permitted to end a program on your knees -- but what if your hand touches the ice? At one point that would have been a deduction. I can't find anything...

THIS. The whole using someone's (uninjured) 'body of work' making it possible for them to cherry pick their Olympic team is brand new. Since it had only been done once before (Ashley/Mirai '14), we didn't even know if they would continue with it this year. Clearly it is now the way they do...

That's great FSWer, keep up the good work!

It is terrifying. My boss is an "everyone should carry a concealed weapon & then we'd all be safer" guy. We have had some conversations about it--he TRULY BELIEVES that at some point the government WILL turn on the population and begin systematic extermination. At that point, in his mind, an...

@Spun Silver THANK YOU so much for posting that letter from his mom!! You were the one who organized everyone (including me), and were so helpful. I so very much appreciated your work, and still remember that with something like wonder, how people from all over the country, who didn't know each...

It popped up in my facebook feed that Jesse (Spazactaz) died 4 years ago yesterday. I worked on a painted portrait of him for his mom, so I see it come up every year. Several members here pulled together to make Christmas gifts for his family, and also donated money to help me pay for the...

I didn't see this posted anywhere: a crowd-sourcing search of the ocean. Though I don't know if it's in the original search area or in the new area: http://www.tomnod.com/nod/challenge/malaysiaairsar2014

Definitely true in my area; certain elements are being judged at a different (higher) standard than we were told they would be.

If you see a lot of testing, actually those numbers are pretty much what I would have guessed. Novice & Junior are definitely the toughest to get through for moves, & senior does seem to be easier.