2013-2014 Short Dance Technical Requirements

[The Accordion]

Lot's of Dancing fools comin up remember the year everyone seemed to use this music ? Was it 01 ?

Definitely '01!!! I remember looking up at the big screen in the corners and reading those words over and over and over!

[Susan M]

For the Finnstep portion, the ISU specifies 2/4 time with 104 beats per minute (52 measures).

Sing, Sing, Sing is 4/4, but it is surely swing so could be used elsewhere in the program.

Lot's of Dancing fools comin up

Are you talking about the Frank Zappa song? That was written in 1979 and I don't think of it as swing or Charleston (just bad marching band music).

[Fridge_Break]

Are you talking about the Frank Zappa song? That was written in 1979 and I don't think of it as swing or Charleston (just bad marching band music).

No, the Barry Manilow version.

[mag]

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Let's see how many couples do the choctaw in the quickstep correctly.

Dd got into the car after her first lesson on the quickstep and the first words out of her mouth were "Mom it has that Choctaw in it!" She then went on to tell it it was going to be a hard one to do well, but it would be lots of FUN!!!

I actually don't know what a Choctaw is, but I suspect I will need to learn so I can be suitably impressed when she does it correctly. Needless to say, she is still working her way through the compulsory dance tests ... No SD anytime in the near future for her.

[Aussie Willy]

My favourite Choctaw is the Blues Choctaw.

[nuge]

No, the Barry Manilow version.

I'm embarrassed to say I love it

[Susan M]

No, the Barry Manilow version.

OMG, just as awful but in a different way. Next season will be painful if we have to hear this at every event.

[kirkbiggestfan]

Susanna Rahkamo's banker should send a bottle of champagne to the ISU every time they pick the Finnstep.
She is going to be busy this summer, right?

[Capella]

One Not Touching Midline Step Sequence or Not Touching Diagonal Step Sequence or Not Touching Circular Step Sequence

Is that completely new? Obviously I've seen both of the other choices, but I don't recall diagonal being an option before.

They added circular for 2012-2013, so diagonal will be new for 2013-2014.

[Ozzisk8tr]

My favourite Choctaw is the Blues Choctaw.

I had a young skater one time who was told what she needed to improve on by some judges. She came to me and said "They told me I need more variety in my footwork. They said add some bokchoys".

[danceronice]

Does "Hey Big Spender" or "Minnie the Moocher" fit the prescribed rhythms? Please say no, please say no

In the real world (ie ballroom dancing) you could probably make either one into a Foxtrot or Tango but it would take a LOT of tweaking to make them a Quickstep. (Big Spender is more start-and-stop and would probably be an okay American Tango, Minnie the Moocher would be Slow Fox.)

You could, if you wanted to do a "not mindbogglingly dull same-old" quickstep, use "Bounce With Me", "Crabbukit", "Call the Law", "Theme From Spider-Man" (Michael Buble cover or its Junkie XL remix.) Really, anything that's not "Dancing Fool", "Swing Swing Swing", or that song from "The Mask"...QS can get like Paso Doble, ie "If I hear 'Espana Cani' ONE MORE TIME..."

[Aussie Willy]

Ah I want to see a Spiderman SD.

[Spun Silver]

Samuel Johnson put it best when he said, "When a man is tired of the Finnstep, he is tired of life."

[nuge]

What OD was that when Denstas used Toy Story Charleston and what else ?

[VIETgrlTerifa]

Who knew that when all of us were bemoaning the million "Dancin' Fools" in the 2000-2001 season that the ISU would inadvertently answer this 13 years later with having such lenient musical requirements for a "short dance"?

[Skittl1321]

I actually don't know what a Choctaw is, but I suspect I will need to learn so I can be suitably impressed when she does it correctly.

Choctaws are hard- I really really hate them Technically the step from back to forward for a spin wind-up is a choctaw, but that isn't what skates are thinking of when they talk about hard choctaws. The one that go forward to back are very difficult.

So you know what to look for: they are a turn that changes foot and edge. (Whereas a mohawk changes foot but keeps the same edge.) IIRC, the quickstep choctaw is Left-forward outside edge to Right Back Inside edge.

[gkelly]

What OD was that when Denstas used Toy Story Charleston and what else ?

Foxtrot

[Braulio]

A chocktaw video explanation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8jVtL3E4U

Performed by Usova

[mag]

A chocktaw video explanation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q8jVtL3E4U

Performed by Usova

Very cool, thank you. I will have to show that the dd.

[Aussie Willy]

I asked a coach at my rink about how they did choctaws as figures. Discovered that choctaws were not part of figures, they were only ever part of ice dance. Funny how the skaters are now doing them in step sequences to get the levels.