Recent content by gkelly

Yes, that's true. You need to be comfortable with your skating and focus on your skating technique so you don't fall. Dancing on the floor can be very improvisational, but dancing on ice needs to be planned carefully. ESPECIALLY if you're skating with a partner, you need to know exactly what...

Alice Sue Claeys?

And dance has 6. Bratti/Somerville are included under the last pair team. It's because there are only 5 pairs that there's an odd number total, leaving the open slot at the end.

My impression, especially based on what I observed 20-30 years ago, was that US TV networks, especially when covering the Olympics and the lead-up to them, would put more emphasis on skaters who were already known to the every-4-years viewing public, as well as US skaters with real medal...

She might have. What I remember more specifically was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEtkTHjXx2g&t=2m32s, with hands next to her head. And then there was this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebYJwKs4kpk&t=1m40s

I guess this would qualify? These turns go by several different names, including helicopters, but that doesn't seem to be what the ISU is referring to here.

There was a period when one of the official bullet points for positive GOE on jump elements was "varied position in the air / delay in rotation." It's not clear whether that was originally intended to refer to simple variations of air positions such as arm positions, as opposed to more...

I saw the Laurence Olivier film of Wuthering Heights when I was in high school. It only covers about half the book. Later I tried to read the book but I just couldn't get through it and stopped also about halfway through. A few years ago I watched a more recent adaptation (can't remember which...

The purpose of local competitions and club shows is not to get people who have no interest in figure skating to be interested in watching figure skating. You can't fault them for not doing something that they were never designed to do. Even if you did advertise local competitions and some...

Speaking for my club's competitions, and similar ones I have attended at other clubs... There's nothing to stop members of the general public from attending. You don't need a credential or ticket to enter or to sit in the stands. The problem is that these events are held at local rinks with...

Sometimes at test sessions you might see a very tall male coach partnering a short little girl in a beginning dance that uses Kilian hold. The coach will need to bend over to get his hands in the right position -- he won't have good posture when partnering a student nearly 2 feet shorter than...

So is that USFS paying the skater to stay in, or a sponsor paying the skater if they keep competing? Does USFS broker these deals or funnel the money?

This will overlap with the Eastern Sectional Singles Final in Charleston, SC and be offset one day from the start of the Midwestern Sectional Singles and U.S. Pairs Final in Lansing, MI. For whatever that's worth.

It's long-term skating lingo, though. People were talking about "cheated jumps" (mostly doubles) 50 years ago, probably longer than that ever since doubles became common. You have to understand the term in that context rather than bringing in outside meanings of the word "cheat."

I remember that. I think he just said "or will we have a new champion"? It was time to wait for Mone's scores, so while it was possible that we would have a new champion who was neither Kaori or Mone, we would have to wait several minutes longer to find out whether that would be the case. I...