Tanith White has become my favorite analyst over the years.
I can watch ice dancers for aspects like closer holds, greater speed and resulting pattern size, face-to-face skating vs. side by side and so on.
But my eyes just aren't skilled enough to detect more precise details such as whether the dancers hit their key points. Tanith does an excellent job evaluating and explaining these kinds of points, at least for me.
I do have a pet peeve that applies to any announcer through the years.
"Rotation" refers to an object spinning on its axis -- like the Earth does daily, or like skaters do when they jump or spin. "Revolution," at least according to NASA, refers instead to something orbiting another object -- like Earth traveling around the sun, or perhaps the woman's motion in a death spiral. I always want Neil deGrasse Tyson to take over when an analyst says a skater failed to complete the "revolutions" in a jump.
As for Johnny and Tara, Mrs. Blueshirt and I joke that someday we're going to find that table they always talk about -- the one on which the skaters keep leaving all their points. Then we're going to scoop up all those points, run away, and give them to our favorites.
I can watch ice dancers for aspects like closer holds, greater speed and resulting pattern size, face-to-face skating vs. side by side and so on.
But my eyes just aren't skilled enough to detect more precise details such as whether the dancers hit their key points. Tanith does an excellent job evaluating and explaining these kinds of points, at least for me.
I do have a pet peeve that applies to any announcer through the years.
"Rotation" refers to an object spinning on its axis -- like the Earth does daily, or like skaters do when they jump or spin. "Revolution," at least according to NASA, refers instead to something orbiting another object -- like Earth traveling around the sun, or perhaps the woman's motion in a death spiral. I always want Neil deGrasse Tyson to take over when an analyst says a skater failed to complete the "revolutions" in a jump.
As for Johnny and Tara, Mrs. Blueshirt and I joke that someday we're going to find that table they always talk about -- the one on which the skaters keep leaving all their points. Then we're going to scoop up all those points, run away, and give them to our favorites.