KIDS WHO FOLLOW-IN THEIR PARENTS FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAME DISCIPLINE AS THEIR PARENTS IN SKATING.

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Say,I don't know if we've ever talked about this...but do we know of any Skaters who's kids have taken after their parents in doing a Discipline of Skating? For eg. Do we know of any Ice-Dance Teams that have kids who also Ice-Dance with a Partner?
 
Great, great ice dance team Klimova - Ponomarenko - their son Anthony is already a star in junior ice dance with his partner Christina Carreira. I am sure someone else is posting this even as I write.

Then Rocky Marvaldi's daughter Gabriella is in pairs with Cody Dolkiewicz. As Rocky Marval her dad skated pairs with Carla Urbanski.

Nikolai Morozov's daughter Annabelle is now in ice dance with Andrei Bagin. Morozov's most famous ice dance partner was Tatiana Navka.

I have not seen Gabriella at all or Annabelle in her current discipline. It must be hard to follow in famous footsteps but I imagine it helps some too.
 
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Are there any kids who do the same Discipline as their Parents though? Any kids who are Pairs or Ice-Dancers....who's parents were too?
 
Spun Silver said:
Then Rocky Marvaldi's daughter Gabriella is in pairs with Cody Dolkiewicz. As Rocky Marval her dad skated pairs with Carla Urbanski.
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I would have gone with Gabriella's mom for top billing as she had a far, far more successful career. ;) Isabelle Brasseur has two Olympic medals, a world title, 3 world silvers, and a world bronze. Gabriella is currently skating with Daniel Villeneuve and has been for two seasons. She has been on the jgp, so there is video out there.
 
aka_gerbil said:
I would have gone with Gabriella's mom for top billing as she had a far, far more successful career. ;) Isabelle Brasseur has two Olympic medals, a world title, 3 world silvers, and a world bronze. Gabriella is currently skating with Daniel Villeneuve and has been for two seasons. She has been on the jgp, so there is video out there.
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How about that? I didnt even know who her mother was. Thanks for the info.
 
Spun Silver said:
How about that? I didn't even know who her mother was. Thanks for the info.
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Yes, Gabriella & her pairs partner competed @ this summer's Philadelphia International Summer Competition (formerly known as "Liberty"). Isabelle & Rocky coach in nearby Southern New Jersey, so we've had the chance to see Gabriella skate pairs for several summers.
 
aka_gerbil said:
I would have gone with Gabriella's mom for top billing as she had a far, far more successful career. ;) Isabelle Brasseur has two Olympic medals, a world title, 3 world silvers, and a world bronze. Gabriella is currently skating with Daniel Villeneuve and has been for two seasons. She has been on the jgp, so there is video out there.
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Spun Silver said:
How about that? I didnt even know who her mother was. Thanks for the info.
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Omg! Isabelle Brasseur is one of my all time favourite skaters EVER! Absolutely loved B&E

Isn't Isabelle's niece also a pairs skater?
 
Alexander Plushenko, 4 years old. He and his father on my avatar. His father didn't want him to be a figure skater. Plushy wanted him to be hockey player or soccer player. But Sasha chose the fs. We don't know he will go in the figure skating world in the end but would be great to follow him in the coming years.

Sasha is a hardworker off ice and on ice as his father. Plus he is incredible cute: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYnYm7iDuty/ mini sex bomb
stretching - https://www.instagram.com/p/BWSGdRhg1Pb/?taken-by=gnomgnomych
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWj8BaMA15d/?taken-by=gnomgnomych

he already skated in shows he had a role in Nutcracker show, it seems he likes the spotlight https://www.instagram.com/p/BWk9wmygQ-Q/?taken-by=gnomgnomych
 
Isabelle Brasseur's niece Justine Brasseur is also a pairs skater. she was skating with Mathieu Ostiguy. Don't know if they are still skating though.
 
This one is a bit obscure, but Fedor Andreev, son of Marina Zoueva was an ice dancer with Jana Khokhlova for one season. Before that he was a singles skater competing for Canada.
 
lala said:
Alexander Plushenko, 4 years old. He and his father on my avatar. His father didn't want him to be a figure skater. Plushy wanted him to be hockey player or soccer player. But Sasha chose the fs. We don't know he will go in the figure skating world in the end but would be great to follow him in the coming years.

Sasha is a hardworker off ice and on ice as his father. Plus he is incredible cute: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYnYm7iDuty/ mini sex bomb
stretching - https://www.instagram.com/p/BWSGdRhg1Pb/?taken-by=gnomgnomych
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWj8BaMA15d/?taken-by=gnomgnomych

he already skated in shows he had a role in Nutcracker show, it seems he likes the spotlight https://www.instagram.com/p/BWk9wmygQ-Q/?taken-by=gnomgnomych
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Ha, I already posted him but your links are fabulous. Except the one of his being stretched. He's too little for that in my non-professional opinion.
 
Monica MacDonald represented Australia in Ice Dance at the 1988 Olympics.

You may be familiar with her son, Brendan Kerry, who competes in men's; her daughter, Chantelle Kerry, will make her international ice dance debut with partner Andrew Dodds at Cup of Nice.

(Bonus fun fact: when that happens, the Dodds brothers will have represented Australia internationally in every division except ladies' and synchro.)
 
googooeyes said:
Isabelle Brasseur's niece Justine Brasseur is also a pairs skater. she was skating with Mathieu Ostiguy. Don't know if they are still skating though.
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no...they don't skate together anymore...I don't believe they were at cdn nats. this yr. After they stopped Mathieu started skating with Chloe Choinard on JGP-next event Croatia Cup. It may have been a size issue but I do not know for sure....Justine is skating singles but hasn't been competing...not sure what is up
 
Spun Silver said:
Ha, I already posted him but your links are fabulous. Except the one of his being stretched. He's too little for that in my non-professional opinion.
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I don't think.
I wanted to show this video. I knew will be poster who won't like it and I waited it from North-Am. ;) In Russia, and in many other European countries stretch the children in this way and in their very early years. Their muscles, ligaments, joints are very flexible much more easier to stretch than later. Look at the Russian skaters, ballet dancers, rythmic gymnast, gymnast girls and boys! Who are extremly flexible as Lipni, she was born as flexible girl, but you can be sure she had similar stretching exerciseses like this in her childhood.
Plushenko himself in his biography:
"I am very flexible. Even before the appearance of the skates in my life I enjoyed tumbling, turning over into a roll. My parents watched me and laughed :
- You are made out of plasticine.
The coach also noticed this immediately:
- You know, your boy is very flexible, - she told my mom,- Here one has to sit at side-splits, to do bridges, fish. Come to the next training, see how we stretch.
They showed us how to stretch correctly. And mom set to work. She stretched not only me, but also my sister. Lena realized quickly, that this is painful and decided that she doesn’t need the side-split.
It hurt to tears. While mom was stretching me I several times fell into hysterics, I laughed and wept at the same time.
- Mom, what are you doing. It hurts.
- Be patient for a while and it will not hurt any more,- mom talked me over and went on stretching me.
- Will you buy me a chewing gum? – I laughed hysterically. For a chewing gum I would have suffered anything.

For four days my mom did what the other parents did for a month. I sat without any problems in side and front split, lifted up my legs to my ears. It didn’t hurt any more.
Then I started stretching alone. I took two chairs and hung down in a split – like Jean-Claude Van Damme in the films, which my parents watched."
 
^ Everybody knows that various countries do this to small children. What isnt known is how this affects them later on. Not everyone has the financial resources of a Plushenko or Khorkina to repair the medical problems caused by such training methods.

Maybe it happens in the US too. I know older kids do it for ballet and gymnastics. I have never seen a three or four year old have it done to them, but I cant say it doesnt happen.
 
Spun Silver said:
^ Everybody knows that various countries do this to small children. What isnt known is how this affects them later on. Not everyone has the financial resources of a Plushenko or Khorkina to repair the medical problems caused by such training methods.

Maybe it happens in the US too. I know older kids do it for ballet and gymnastics. I have never seen a three or four year old have it done to them, but I cant say it doesnt happen.
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Behind closed doors who knows...I don't think parents do these things in Canada.If anyone saw them they would report them as it is child abuse. At a higher level with coaches behind closed doors I cannot say for sure but I would say it is few and far between. My mother was a contortionist . She could tie herself in knots and would just look at a move and be able to do it..She had the genes for this..I did not and as little kids my mom taught us headstands, handstands, dead man flops and she showed me the splits. I wanted to do them so she showed me an exercise to lower yourself into them as far as I could go. I wanted to do them and so I practiced everday until I was able to get right down.My sister who is 8yr younger than myself at 2 saw me doing them and flopped right into them.My mother never touched either of us. At the age of 39 my mother was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. Her hands swelled and became useless claws. She had some operations where the bones were broken and scraped and that helped a lot. She of course was on heavy meds for the pain and swelling for the rest of her life. I am not saying she got the RA from her activities but as I do not feel like looking up the exact medical explanations and what everything is called properly it had to do with genes and immune system etc. and people with that layout are prone to this disease and more. So what as a child I saw this extreme flexibility that my mom and sister had as a big bonus and I wished I had it, later in life I learned it can be a curse. I am a carrier of these genes as my daughter was also able to do splits and oversplits she started to have some problems which the doctors thought might be RA but turned out to be fibromyalgia another relative...My sister's only daughter was born with problems which are all related to the gene makeup in a extreme case and she is intellectually challenged among other things and she is a good athlete and does "Special Olympics". In short although I love watching the beautiful flexibility of some skaters I am crossing my fingers that they and their families do not end up problems later in life.
 
barbarafan said:
Same result if the child does exercises themselves.Without the trauma of a loved one deliberately hurting and/or injuring them.
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It seems we a have totally different method. You know I'm PE teacher we learned the exercises. My expreience if the coach does the exercises carefully and professionally wont be injury especially in the early age. And I hardly believe for ex Sasha Cohen stretched herself. Probably she was extremly flexible originally but later needed help.
I love Soldatova probably she worked for this so hard and not without help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71K7jdL9umg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTnYidytoM Russian world famous prima ballerinas (
Somova,Osipova,Zakharova)
I don't know more beautiful thing...
 
lala said:
It seems we a have totally different method. You know I'm PE teacher we learned the exercises. My expreience if the coach does the exercises carefully and professionally wont be injury especially in the early age. And I hardly believe for ex Sasha Cohen stretched herself. Probably she was extremly flexible originally but later needed help.
I love Soldatova probably she worked for this so hard and not without help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71K7jdL9umg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTnYidytoM Russian world famous prima ballerinas (
Somova,Osipova,Zakharova)
I don't know more beautiful thing...
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They are very beautiful
 
lala said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTnYidytoM Russian world famous prima ballerinas (
Somova,Osipova,Zakharova)
I don't know more beautiful thing...
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I do. Ballet dancers who express the beauty of the music and choreography, rather than showing off their exaggerated, self-harming physical capabilities. They are inhuman to me. The dancer looks like a rubber band instead of a human being. I love ballet, but my perspective mainly comes from watching Balanchine's ballets, where the emphasis is on the dance itself as much as the dancers.

I can handle the exaggerated extensions better in gymnastics which is more sport than art, and where the performers usually quit early and hopefully can recover their health. Ballet dancers have to keep it up for another decade or more.
 
Spun Silver said:
I do. Ballet dancers who express the beauty of the music and choreography, rather than showing off their exaggerated, self-harming physical capabilities. They are inhuman to me. The dancer looks like a rubber band instead of a human being. I love ballet, but my perspective mainly comes from watching Balanchine's ballets, where the emphasis is on the dance itself as much as the dancers.

I can handle the exaggerated extensions better in gymnastics which is more sport than art, and where the performers usually quit early and hopefully can recover their health. Ballet dancers have to keep it up for another decade or more.
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Matter of taste, I love ballet, too. And I believe Zakharova, Osipova and the other famous Russian ballerinas don't lack of those qualities what you mentioned: musicality , and can express the beauty of the horeography. They are the best.I like them much more as the Missy Copland type dancer.
I follow this Russian student in Bolshoi Ballet Academy. I'm curious about her future https://www.instagram.com/p/BUXeHOOgIXO/?taken-by=kokolizik
https://www.instagram.com/p/BU2UCSDg4E8/?taken-by=kokolizik
She is very lucky with her body type. Long legs, thin bones...beautiful. I'm sure she will be a great ballerina.
 
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