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:respec: To be precise, in ISU age (age at the start of this season), Charlotte and Daniel are 7 and 10 yo. While Hanae and Emile are 9 and 11 yo. So with current ISU rules, Charlotte will reach junior age by the 2031-2032 season. And senior by the 2035-2036 season. :COP: My hair will be grey...

This post will be shorter because the figure skating championships are not over. Here are the results in Novice, in Minime (under "championnat", not "coupe"). Benjamin and younger are next weekend. This season, the CSNPA (figure skating committee)'s Youtube account has videos, cut by individual...

The CSNDG (french ice dance committee) 's Youtube account always has all the french ice dance events live. But they don't label them, so one has to do some digging. And they are amateurish in their filming, not picking up at the begining, framing weirdly. Yesterday, the feed was jerky. Today it...

And the youngest ice dance categories had their championships this weekend so here are my preeeeeeciousssss: Charlotte and Daniel & Hanae and Emile. ❤️

I'm trying to look at next season's prospects for France, starting with juniors. It's the last year when some of the upcoming generation are not yet eligible in senior (Stefania Gladki, Dania Mouaden/ Théo Bigot, Romane Telemaque / Lucas Coulon) With the boys (1 entry in 3 JGP, 1 entry at jr...

I don't think Karine has ever talked about weighing her girls or not. (I think the concept is quite estranged to her). She said that judges told Loïcia to lose weight so Théo could triple twist her around his neck in lifts. And Karine said NO and that she'd rather work on the type of lifts (and...

There is not an ounce of negativity in the subtext. If you look at this in chronological order and through the skaters' eyes, you have : a couple of talented young dancers, Seclet-Monchot/Masseron, coached by a quite new coach (Piton), disagrees with her, moves to the next nearby coach and...

As Mark Hanretty has been waxing poetic on Dania Mouaden, Théo Bigot and their coach Barbara Piton, here are some hard facts about them. Barbara-Piton-the-coach appeared on the international scene around 2013 with a lovely young pre-novice couple, Lila-Maya Seclet-Monchot /Adrien Masseron. For...

That's true. That's article 113-7 of the french Penal Code. "French penal law can be applied to any crime, and any offence, perpetrated by a french citizen or a foreign citizen outside of the territory of the (french) Republic, when the victim has the french nationality at the time of the...

It is saddening indeed but I don't think that's one bit surprising. Over the years, I've heard of those "kill the opposition" / cooptation-based aristocratic mentalities in ice dance which comes from the origins of ice dance (russian mentality and european aristocratic mentality), widely spread...

Book read. I totally love it. I think a lot of female ice dancers, female figure skaters, women in general should thank Gabriella for writing it. Because what she describes through her personal experience is a hitchcockian universe that slowly, step after step, draws her to the verge of...

Recently a guy she had as a student from childhood to early teens (back to Zoé and Pierre-Loup time) wrote a book where he considers her as his 2nd mum and the ever benevolent cornerstone of his life (even when he disappointed her, even after he left her center and trained elsewhere, even in his...

Thank you. He's debuting with Margot Richmond in novice ice dance this weekend at the Tournoi de France in Orléans, representing the new club of Dreux, whose coach is Violetta Zakhlyupana. It's funny that Katerina and Daniel's little brother is entering what I call the Karine Arribert Extented...

I have a very specific question about a young and very obskure european ice dancer. Is Vastimil Mrazek related to Katerina and Daniel Mrazek ? Inquiring minds want to know.

THANK YOU !!! I knew it would ring someone's bells. I remember seeing such comments but I can't remember when and which couple (I tend to remember crisis/intense problems more than the negative but "average" -for that account- comment). Plus I don't check that many videos. If you happen to...