Recent content by jmtfti

I was a Paul/Islam fan so...... in general, teams are probably better off being ignored by me.

A few lower ranked teams are using "Smooth" this season, so it seems like judges are OK with it. (At least for obscure Euro and Canadian teams.) Hensen/Lickers are doing Ricky Martin, though, and it seems like IAMO tends to diversify RD approaches among their seniors each season.

Ha, I spent the offseason imagining a two-step style RD with "No One Needs to Know" (BPM of 134-135!).

He made costume recommendations for their Beauty and the Beast FD a few seasons ago. Though, as Karen notes, it's not at all unusual for tech panelists and judges to provide such "advice" (which is....a problem!). In general, I've had the sense over the years that he's been fairly friendly with...

I just personally don't like the program, so if this incentivized them to change it, I'd be completely on board. That said, this seemed inevitable the moment Rettstatt, who's consulted Z/K in the past, was put on this panel.

Or conversely, Canada owed France one for Vanessa James...

What's kind of funny/ironic is that the choreography Kaitlyn has done for ice dance, solo or in collaboration -- Flores/Desyatov's final two FDs, two of Neset/Markelov's RDs, Homick/Buelow's two FDs and RD this season -- has actually been pretty conventional in terms of gender roles and music...

Chan/Howe have replaced Shin/Nagy for Skate America: https://isu-skating.com/figure-skating/entries/isu-gp-skate-america-2025/?type=11813728

It appears Guignard/Fabbri have scrapped "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" and replaced it with a Backstreet Boys song I'd never heard of, "That's the Way I Like It": https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00012929.htm

Maybe the IDTC should have just sent teams and coaches the exact playlist of songs they want to hear all season.

I really hate the prospect of the two teams being pitted against one another thanks to the dodgy tech panel here when I'd consider both superior to what went ahead of them, anyway...

It's decidedly awkward to see the Ralph Lauren and Delta posts pop up from them after gestures with the certain knowledge that not a thing will be said or done about what we all know now.

I get the nod to the conical bra in Laurence's costume; the part that I don't quite get is why she's wearing it with matching mini shorts when the actual Madonna look would've called for a more skating-friendly black leggings/pants...

They did comment on it, though, and those comments were reported. There's a Boston Globe article from March saying they were working on options, possibly derived from their post-skate media comments as recorded by Golden Skate. Those were just a couple of the top Worlds-era hits on Google, but...

Random fun fact mostly to reiterate how.....interconnected the ice dance world is beyond any one school: new British judge Sundeep Pandya used to be involved with the Lithuanian fed from the late 1990s through early/mid 2000s.