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At these nonqualifying levels, everyone who signs up for a local competition before registration closes gets to compete. Across the whole competition, the total number of competitors would be the same regardless of whether there are multiple separate small and medium-sized events at each level...

No quads in the junior SP is true. Juniors and seniors have the exact same number of jumping passes in both programs. The difference between the junior and the senior free skate elements is that seniors do both a choreographic sequence and a leveled step sequence, whereas juniors only do the...

Exactly. I think female-female pair teams would need a separate competition with different rules. But the numbers would probably be there in countries with many more girls skating than boys. At juvenile level, the rules wouldn't be all that different, but once overhead lifts come into play...

Covering the ice happens by gliding. Work on your gliding skills. Keep working with your coach. Bend your knees.

I read this on my phone and thought $82.78? I could afford that! :D

As I recall, it was the judges who were judging GOEs only who were bored, not so much the ones who were judging components (of which there were 5 at the time). As I understand the technology described in the article, at this point it's just designed for use in training, using a single phone or...

You can't do solo 4A in place of the required 2A or 3A in the short program. Ilia knew that and did both 4A and 3A at that GPF. (The tech panel was initially confused, but they figured it out eventually.) What he "went back to" in place of the 4A was the 4F.

Only 1 triple attempt is allowed in Juvenile. (As of a few years ago, after ~20 years of triples not being allowed at all at that level.)

Yes, this. From first movement (after the music starts) to last movement. If the music is cut several seconds shorter than the maximum time allowance, it's possible that the skater could still be moving after the music has ended but fully stop within the allowed time, in which case no...

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I'm reading this book for a class I'm teaching: Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger It's a pretty fun read, which is a good thing for a class of middle schoolers, although it is aimed at an adult audience.

I was thinking that my own employment situation is such that I don't feel I can afford to make significant monetary donations these days... But I have received a lot of Amazon gift cards in the past few years and had built up a balance there that I don't really use. So I just found a local food...

Or for ice dance in general. Agree! There could always be air castanets.

Yes, I started watching that a few months ago. Currently taking a break but now I intend to go back to watch the rest.

I just finished reading The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See. Fascinating look into the culture of women free divers on Jeju Island in Korea and the traumas that occurred there during during the Japanese occupation and in the post-WWII alliance of South Korea with the US, with a 21st century...