Thank you all. I guess you are right in that I just love it when coaches get all emotional, even if they do it all the time because it's the way they always react to one of their students really doing well. That's probably just me, someone who gets to sniff and gets all teary when things like that happen.
I just read Adam's book (beautiful on the outside) and it's pretty clear he has enormous admiration for Raf if only because RAF told him he wouldn't accept his mothers money anymore, then helped him get his act together and only then expected to get fees again. There's a lot in between, but the gist of it is that Raf helped him get independant. Of course I admire that too, just as I admired Tarasova in her day who would also get very emotional. And I certainly didn't intend to be negative about either Tracy Wilson or Kori Ade, of whom I have heard nothing but praise and how supportive they are to their students. And stay that when a student becomes an ex-student because a particular student needs a different angle or approach after a while.
So, now I'm going to walk 10 miles barefoot in the snow (once the snow arrives).
Oh, don't get me wrong, I love emotional too. Silvia and Kevin were just adorable, and Kevin seems to love that interaction and has found the best coaches for him. And of course we often have the Brian cam, with Brian jumping along with his skaters
I don't know if I was too obscure with the "ten miles in the snow" speech. When grumpy folks of a certain age (like me) tell a younger person, well when I was your age, sonny, we didn't have it easy like you with this and that, it's the "walking ten miles in the snow" speech.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhenIWasYourAge
Other cultures must have the equivalent