My daughter is at Broadmoor this week, participating in the Jump on it Camp on Friday and Saturday. She said Karen is there to help demonstrate at camp. The Japanese skaters are there for choreography. I'm not sure if they also are participating in the camp.
Thx for the inside scoop . Hope the camp is productive and enjoyable for your daughter .
Great news re Karen :dance2:.
She was at the OTC last week as well, prior to last weekend's SOI shows in California, so I must admit that I was not necessarily expecting that this week's Colorado visit would include helping at the camp.
It speaks well for the camp that Karen wants to give demos again this year, even though she'll then have to dash off to Seattle for SOI.
And now I am wondering whether maybe this year she was asked to give the keynote speech too?
(I'm guessing that USFS would want a different person this year b/c some return campers already heard from Max last year.)
The reigning national champion who then placed fourth at her first Worlds would be an inspiring choice.
I'm not sure but that would be awesome! I can post updates when I speak with my daughter. I'm excited she has this experience!
It is so wrong that this isn't being posted to YouTube or something. And the usfsa wonders why the sport is losing fans!! I'm, hello?!?! You guys don't give us any insight on what happens at champs camp or anything, either. Shame.
Adding some bits re Jump On It! Camp:
- Seen via some Instagram stories:
A Japanese film crew is shooting at the camp this year. And I think I recognize one of the coaches (female) on the ice as being from Team Japan, but her name escapes me :hopelessness:.
[ETA: Coach Hamada, if I am not mistaken. Hard to see the face clearly.]Adam is among those assisting on the ice.
Frank Carroll is there. No surprise, as he was among the camp's many big-name coaches last year as well.
- And .. I saw an Instagram photo that seemed to suggest that Brendan Kerry is there now too? The international notes this year are kind of surprising to me, given that it is an USFS camp. (Surprising, but not in a bad way.)
(Vincent is in the same photo. No surprise, as he gave demos at last year's camp.)
- From the Facebook Live session, learned that Nathan was one of the team leaders last year .
Sorry that I had not realized that he was among those officially involved in 2016. All I had seen last year is a photo on the social media belonging to another individual (I do not remember to whom) that showed Nathan hanging out off ice with some of the campers. It was during the many weeks that Nathan was in Colorado Springs full time for rehab, and I mistakenly got the impression that he was just informally mingling with them. Happy to be proven wrong.
The Facebook Live session is archived on the USFS page. USFS has posted it on YT too.
Karen and Nathan both did a very nice job.
Frank Carroll is the jump coach for the USFS so I'm not shocked he's there. People go out to him in California all the time for jump training and he travels too.