Allons-y! French skating news & updates

**SmallFairy** · 10-06-2011, 07:58 PM

Originally Posted by Kunstrijdster

I love Candeloro but remember 93/94 and 94/95, when both his SPs and LPs where Godfather programmes? (With slight changes, granted)

So, I'll let Brian return one more time

noooooo that's not the same

! Godfather I,II,III & IV were four different stories, he was acting a full play out on ice every time he skated. for his sp in 94, he was so young, and then he grew into and old man, with grey hair, acting the part. And Godfather II...loved it, he was so slick!

**Zemgirl** · 10-06-2011, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by SmallFairy

while we're at it, bring back my Stanick as well, that would make me so ridiculously happy!!!)

Yes, please! If not as a skater than as Amodio's choreographer

Now there's someone with really great ideas.

But hey, you can't really argue that there was anything Matrix-y about Joubert's programs from last season, or most of his SPs for that matter (and isn't KvdP more likely to skate to Pirates of the Caribbean or one of its sequels?)

**Ziggy** · 10-06-2011, 10:21 PM

Can Joubert just retire now, please?

**Diane Mars** · 10-06-2011, 10:59 PM

Are you sure that Brian will skate on "Matrix" and not on the "never ending story" ?

**casken** · 10-07-2011, 03:13 AM

I guess the Matrix is to Brian what The Four Season was to Petrova and Tikhonov.

I will say that there was a young American guy a few years back (Stojko-like, attempted qauds?) with a Matrix LP that used very different cuts than Joubert. So it may be a very different program even if it's from the same soundtrack.

**kirkbiggestfan** · 10-07-2011, 04:19 AM

http://www.lunion.presse.fr/article/...lban-preaubert

Some news about Alban Preaubert. He has been working for an asset management company in Paris since March and hasn't been skating much except on week-ends. He is not ready to announce his retirement from skating and wants to keep his options open. He is working on Friday but will attend the competition in Orleans this week-end.

**Cherub721** · 10-07-2011, 05:14 AM

Aw, I hope Alban sticks around. There's no one like him. And I have a soft spot for smart skaters.. Savoie, Denkova, Peizerat. Good for him working at another career!

**luCN** · 10-07-2011, 06:06 AM

Originally Posted by Elise

Idk if this has been posted anywhere else, but

said on passion patinage that Brian's new LP is on..... Matrix.

now I wonder will he come back to the 007 SP...

**Libertango** · 10-07-2011, 07:50 AM

IMO Alban's done : he graduated from a very good school business school, ESCP EUROPE, and now has a job in Finance. I don't think he'll have time to train anymore.

**Elise** · 10-07-2011, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by casken

I will say that there was a young American guy a few years back (Stojko-like, attempted qauds?) with a Matrix LP that used very different cuts than Joubert. So it may be a very different program even if it's from the same soundtrack.

In a French interview someone posted here (I guess), he says that he is skating the exact same program...

**Ninchen** · 10-07-2011, 01:48 PM

He's talking about Matrix here too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4jmUnfhaBQ

**SmallFairy** · 10-07-2011, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by casken

I guess the Matrix is to Brian what The Four Season was to Petrova and Tikhonov.

and Turandot to Meno & Sand....

Hence Alban....I'm gonna miss him SO much! he is/was, such a goofy, groovy, cool and different skater! (and I have a thing for cute guys with messy teeth lol)

**crystalice** · 10-07-2011, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ziggy

Can Joubert just retire now, please?

**mella** · 10-07-2011, 03:47 PM

Originally Posted by SmallFairy

and Turandot to Meno & Sand....

Hence Alban....I'm gonna miss him SO much! he is/was, such a goofy, groovy, cool and different skater! (and I have a thing for cute guys with messy teeth lol)

Alban was hardly immune to reusing a programme. Buzzy Bee anyone? (not sure if that's what he called it or just what I remember it as) Maybe it's just that I saw it live a number of times but that particular programme seemed to hang around WAY too long. It wore thin.

**Jenya** · 10-07-2011, 04:39 PM

Originally Posted by mella

Alban was hardly immune to reusing a programme. Buzzy Bee anyone? (not sure if that's what he called it or just what I remember it as) Maybe it's just that I saw it live a number of times but that particular programme seemed to hang around WAY too long. It wore thin.

Buzzy Bee.

I definitely saw that program live way too many times... although, I think that maybe all of Preaubert's programs just look the same and technically they were different?

I'm kind of amused by Joubert skating to the Matrix again. He's at the end of his career, trying different styles obviously didn't work in his favor, so I don't exactly blame him. I will be

if he shows up with his Matrix program from 2004, though. Maybe he can reprise "The Untouchables" next?

**SmallFairy** · 10-07-2011, 04:44 PM

I'd rather see his Mexican Hat.....

**Ziggy** · 10-08-2011, 03:18 AM

Can Joubert and Preaubert just retire now, please?

**Jenna** · 10-08-2011, 03:21 AM

Originally Posted by Ziggy

Can Joubert and Preaubert just retire now, please?

Agreed.

I love Amodio and I adored his free program from last season. I don't care what the other think.

**Ziggy** · 10-08-2011, 03:30 AM

Preaubert did have a few voidy programs but I could never get past his choppy, scratchy basic skating and absolutely horrific posture. I don't think I've ever seen worse.

And at some point, his programs stopped being voidy and become as generic as everybody else's.

**znhurston** · 10-08-2011, 09:26 AM

Any links to Pechalat and Bourzat's SD at the French Masters

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