Recent content by overedge

When I took group lessons as an adult, most of the coaches taught us basic ice dance skills - edges, progressives, swing rolls - as well as freeskating elements. They taught us those ice dance skills because as @Clarice says, those are skills that will help you become better at any kind of...

"Tense, tired and puffy eyed" doesn't begin to cover it. Sad......

@FSWer this website lists the three Preliminary pattern dances, which are the first dances that every ice dancer learns. There are also videos of a skater performing each dance. If you click on the "Learn More" button below the description of each dance, you can see a diagram of the steps in the...

If you're doing solo ice dance, you still need to have good basic skating skills, and not try things that are too difficult for you. If you fall, you could hurt yourself and maybe hurt other skaters as well.

If I saw some evidence that the ISU is actually doing something substantive to address its bigger issues, then I might believe it's capable of multi-tasking. But I don't see that evidence.

It would be very difficult, even if you have good basic skating skills. You can practice the dances on your own, but you would learn them a lot faster, and probably learn them more correctly, with a coach teaching them to you.

I didn't say the old logo was a good logo. I said that the ISU has more important things to deal with (e.g. abuse and exploitation of skaters) than fixing its logo.

Plus the photo behind the new logo (on the Insta post that was linked) looks like something from a Vegas show or some Gladiator-type or Ninja-type TV reality series. It's not even a flattering photo of the skaters in the photo. Bad choice.

I'm currently reading Tim Matheson's autobiography - it's excellent - and he mentions how when he was a child/teen actor, it was normal for the studios to order young actors and actresses to go out on dates together. Just so that the paparazzi and gossip columnists would give them publicity, and...

I believe the appropriate response to announcements like this is "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic". The ISU needs to fix a lot of things. Its logo isn't one of them.

@FSWer almost everyone who does ice dance is a solo ice dancer at some point. Not everyone competes in solo ice dance, but if you don't have a partner - like most ice dancers - you train on your own, and learn the compulsory dances on your own. Even if you're taking an ice dance test, usually...

That's a classic. Justin Bieber was probably in that magazine when he started out too. Mark Lindsay from Paul Revere and the Raiders was also a big crush at my elementary school (yes I'm old) except that he had GASP a ponytail, which made him suspicious to a lot of parents. I'm not joking.

Yes, because she kept going through a lot of difficult times. She got to choose when to stop, and that's the most important thing.

Thanks for finding this. Now I'd like to know what happened with that other complaint. I think that complaints to OSIC have to be addressed individually even if there's more than one complaint about the same person. So is the second complaint still being investigated? Or did the investigation...

From the Grievances page on the USFS website. If it's the same person, he and his partner won a gold medal in pairs at the recent US Adult Skating Championships.