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Sometimes at test sessions you might see a very tall male coach partnering a short little girl in a beginning dance that uses Kilian hold. The coach will need to bend over to get his hands in the right position -- he won't have good posture when partnering a student nearly 2 feet shorter than...

So is that USFS paying the skater to stay in, or a sponsor paying the skater if they keep competing? Does USFS broker these deals or funnel the money?

This will overlap with the Eastern Sectional Singles Final in Charleston, SC and be offset one day from the start of the Midwestern Sectional Singles and U.S. Pairs Final in Lansing, MI. For whatever that's worth.

It's long-term skating lingo, though. People were talking about "cheated jumps" (mostly doubles) 50 years ago, probably longer than that ever since doubles became common. You have to understand the term in that context rather than bringing in outside meanings of the word "cheat."

I remember that. I think he just said "or will we have a new champion"? It was time to wait for Mone's scores, so while it was possible that we would have a new champion who was neither Kaori or Mone, we would have to wait several minutes longer to find out whether that would be the case. I...

The rhythm dance will need to use songs that have a strong rhythm and are danceable. Ballads really won't work, or maybe just for a short slow section in the middle of an otherwise dancy program.

Well, they've been learning patterns for years up through novice level, and then one more (partial or whole) each year in junior. One could think of the way the patterns are used in junior RD as a gradual transition from pattern dance only in lower levels to pattern snippets only in seniors.

Why is that?

All short programs have required elements. Pairs have some more specific requirements than singles. Juniors have some more specified requirements than other levels. So junior pairs have the most specified requirements...

a bye is "1. the transfer of a competitor directly to the next round of a competition in the absence of an assigned opponent. "he has a bye into the second round" Within the US qualifying competition, that means from sectionals to Nationals. (And when there were regionals, there were a few...

Except perhaps for women, having a preliminary round at the Nationals venue early in the week would either duplicate or replace the Sectional competition (or the US Pair or Dance Final) held in November, for junior and senior levels. Those events would still need to exist for the lower levels...

Do you mean arabesque? It's not a classic attitude at all.

Question about your mother the pastor (since I am in the process of trying to write a novel with a female pastor as a main character): Was she applying for jobs at churches in a particular denomination, or more broadly?

28. Close to half of them were gifts (some purchased on behalf of my sister, who reimbursed me) and also grocery orders from Amazon Fresh when I couldn't go out to the store for one reason or another . . . and one in-store shopping trip to Whole Foods is showing up on my list. The rest were...

"Clear increase of speed in camel, sit, Layback, Biellmann or difficult variation of an upright position (except in crossfoot spin)" is a feature, but relatively rarely rewarded it seems. "Good speed and/or acceleration during spin" is a positive bullet point for judges to apply in the GOEs. So...