I have a feeling this is Mirai's swan song. I just hope she has a good FS to end her career.
Ugh makes me so sad... I still have twenty Japanese girls to root for.
I have a feeling this is Mirai's swan song. I just hope she has a good FS to end her career.
It doesn't look like we're going to keep 3 spots for next year. I wish I could say that I'm surprised but, I'm not.
I'm taking a wait and see approach, but if I were a betting man, I'd wager you are right.
Although from my expert eye viewing on my phone earlier today, I think that Osmond, Satoko, and Soltskova were all over-scored a tad. The scores are still tight enough that placements can shift.
It doesn't look like we're going to keep 3 spots for next year. I wish I could say that I'm surprised but, I'm not.
I know that Mirai didn't go for the 3A and her 3T on her 3F-3T was << but I will say, quality wise, it was the best I have seen from her this season. The musicality, the interpretation.
It doesn't look like we're going to keep 3 spots for next year. I wish I could say that I'm surprised but, I'm not.
I might be late to bring this up (considering I don't have time or energy to go through 442 pages ), but has Alysa Liu been on anyone's radar? This little skating star won't be age eligible for senior comp. for a while, but I'm excited to see how she matures! I'm hoping she doesn't burn out before coming to the senior stage. If she can keep the momentum, I feel like she could become a success for the US on the international stage.
This is kind of true. It was a bigger deal when we had 3 ladies who deserved to go to worlds and had at least an outside chance of medaling.I don´t understand the obsession with the 3 spots, I mean, USA has 3 spots right now and look at the way they are using it hwell:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=3m40sAnother one of his methods was to take the skaters to the point of the ice rink, where the parents and the coaches and the other skaters couldn't reach him as easily, and to say awful things to them. He would take me to that corner after I've done a skate -- it didn't matter if it was good or bad -- and he would say bad things to me. As a kid, I felt like him doing that was all my fault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=4m47sThe off-ice started okay. It started out all right. Then he got aggressive, and then he hit me. Then I went to my mom, and she was yelling at me. She was furious. She was so furious as she couldn't find me. I felt like I had done something wrong, so when she asked me if he had done anything, I said, "No." I said, "No, it was fine. He just taught me choreography."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=7m28sShe would jump rope until her body was physically crying, and she herself was not realizing that she was crying. No one really wanted to see what was happening. It wasn't until the day that her heart stopped, and she had to go to the hospital, that people realized they should be listening. The scary thing is sometimes coaches and parents encourage anorexia in figure skating. They go after skaters for having a candy bar after skating for four hours. Are you kidding me? They need a candy bar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=9m05sFigure skating: it did teach me discipline. And it did force me to grow up sooner than I think I should have. Being put in the situations that I was put in it, it definitely made me lose my innocence, if that makes sense. Which is probably why I overindulge now in Disney and stuff.
Thought this might be interesting. Former competitive American skater, Jamie Jo (Burns is her married name) talks about her abusive coach who verbally and physically abused his skaters, and her friend who had anorexia.
My abusive figure skating life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo
Verbal abuse from coach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=3m40s
Physical abuse from coach. He secretly took Jamie to a secluded room for "off-ice choreography lessons" but he started hitting her. Later, her coach billed her mother $400 for the sessions in which he beat her. He also choreographed only half of her program, and she had to make up her program on the spot at competitions. Eventually her mother fired him and he socially shunned Jamie. However, because he was a very popular and respected coach, when he started shunning her, everyone else at the rink started shunning her too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=4m47s
Her friend almost died due to anorexia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=7m28s
Jamie said that competitive figure skating made her lose her innocence and had long-term effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM0KLcgHsLo&t=9m05s
I don´t understand the obsession with the 3 spots, I mean, USA has 3 spots right now and look at the way they are using it hwell: