Recent content by Willin

And Les Supremes were messier. Their travelling element was probably the worst of the Top 5 or maybe even Top 10. I was pretty shocked when they not only won, but won by that margin. I could tell the voices on the commentary feed felt much the same. Some of their basic shapes weren't good... IAM...

They aren't required to wear skirts by any means, but having skirts just moves better. It also hides things like lack of synchronization and lack of matching in the extensions better than pants. If you're doing pants you need to be on point. MIU wore pants maybe 10 years ago for a SP and it only...

@ice coverage It's a weird situation where there is a head coach for the program, but there's a rotating cast of assistant coaches. It's almost every season that they have new coaches on board in some capacity or other coaches leaving. The program used to have something like 5 teams - Senior...

They had an amazing coach that retired around 2010. Since then they've been going through cycles of different coaches - and being a varsity program (meaning tied to a university) their skaters cycle out quite frequently as well. IIRC the university also lowered their funding in 2012ish, so they...

Then what say you about Team Del Sol - which has famously been coached by one of the US's top synchro officials for 20+ years? Or my college coach - who was a tech specialist in competitions her teams competed in (albeit not for their divisions)? Or my ice dance coach - who judges lower level...

Maybe it's different in synchro, but I've litterally attended USFS sanctioned critiques and USFS mandated monitoring sessions where they told us just that. "You need to work on your speed." "Your crossovers are bad." "I'd like to see more range of expression." As a coach I got feedback at...

Zagreb has hosted many successful big international Synchro comps - including ones with their own livestreams. They've also held worlds multiple times before with no issues. I have no reason to believe this year will be any different. In the US at least it will be on Peacock, but I think they...

I don't think Russia would've done that well outside of pairs. Their men have never been strong and since 2013-2014, their dance has been overshadowed by North Americans/IAM teams, and a huge part of their ladies success has been very questionable judging in their favor. Meanwhile that...

Considering that IAM has supported him throughout (some coaches more openly than others - liking social media posts) and continued to let him train there, I'm not as optimistic about this possibility as others. I think IAM would keep him in some role. There's stuff out there about another IAM...

Bratte/Somerville had a fall - a freak accident in ice dance. Even worse a fall at a time that caused the entire element to be invalidated. That's why they didn't make the FD - not because, as you imply, they're bad. G/P very well may have had the same sort of mistake. Almost every US ice dance...

Honestly I don't think US pairs have gotten worse. I think they're getting better. A huge part of the problem is just that the rest of the world has gotten a lot better. Pair that with a slightly worse than normal skate from K/O and a very subpar skate from C/H (likely due to injury and lack of...

They're both way overreacting here. Look, I get they want a scoop, but I'd bet he genuinely can't talk about how that was calculated at this point. The ISU's lawyers would be freaking out (and rightly so) if he did say more because of how it could affect the case. They're really just expecting...

Winning = popularity for a lot of sports like skating (every 4 years for most people). Korea's ladies are finally breaking through to podiums - helping them to sustain/grow their figure skating program. Japan seems to be sustaining skating's popularity. France and Italy are having a...

I haven't watched yet, but I'm shocked at the result given how dominant Teams Elite was the rest of the season and how Skyliners/Elite were consistently beating Fintastic's scores. IIRC at least one of the two also beat Les Supremes. For both US teams these scores are well below their SBs...

Sure, but some of the stuff on the list is very inappropriate and others make me think they were trying to mask symptoms for some things so she could return to skating faster and others are known to be bad for you quite easily. To break it down: This is an enormous amount of painkillers...