Holding an Edge: A Documentary About Ting Cui

[Sylvia]

Holding an Edge | A Documentary About Ting Cui (Middlebury College Class of '25.5)
Directed, Produced, and Edited by Lucy Curtis-Cherry (Middlebury College Class of '26.5)
December 2025 / 24 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG1_kJfSGok

ETA Ting's closing words in her documentary: "... Something is still pulling at my heart. I think my default is always skating. Part of the hope that I still have for my own skating career is that I've finally found really great coaches and I'm really excited about the potential that's there. It almost feels like a beginning, because this is my first performance since surgery [in May 2025] and so it almost feels like a start, a different approach to it that I'm taking. If I'm doing it again, I don't want to do it to just to be there and be someone in the list of names. Not just doing it because this is what I've always done, 'cause if I want to continue to push myself in my sport I can't have that same mentailty then. I want to do it if I have a shot to accomplish something that I haven't yet. So, I don't know... let's see what happens next."

 

[mtnskater]

Ran across this on YouTube yesterday. She was always one of my up and coming favorites and it was so sad when she was derailed by repeated injury. It would be very exciting if she decided to seriously train again.

 

[Skaterbob]

Oh goodness, was the video of the triple axel in the harness actual video of her breaking her ankle? I can't believe they were even trying that jump.

 

[Sylvia]

More truths spoken by Ting in her documentary:

(After breaking her right ankle less than a month after 2019 Junior Worlds) "I will say the first injury was not that bad because you're still in the state of I don't know what an injury is... this is kinda of fun experiencing it for the first time. It's almost like I feel like a real athlete now that I've had an injury and can just get past it."

(After her second serious injury) "... I still had that idea in the back of my mind 'she's going to be world champion one day.' It just seemed so natural, in a sense. I was trending upwards. It was strange because it just never occurred to me that progress wasn't guaranteed."

"By the time I was an upperclassman in college I started to realize that, no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to do the same thing that the most competitive Senior ladies are doing because training is their full-time job."