Michelle Kwan (Threads Merged)

kittyjake5 said:
Me thinks something is up here. Michelle seriously looks like she is training and not
just skating for fun. Maybe there is some truth to Marco's above post.
Yuna and Michelle together again! It would be a dream come true!

Alert: My post is just pure speculation on my part and in no way do I have any
credible information that Yuna and Michelle will be skating together in Korea.
I would not want rumors to start flying around the internet. :ROFLMAO:
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LOL.... I was gonna post yesterday that she doesn't seem to be doing this just for the sake of it.

After watching some of her posts she looks even better than she did in 06 when she was getting on the Torino team (albeit Emily came and took her spot).

The quality of what she is doing is top notch. Heck, even if she didn't have a 3/3 or many 3s the quality and GOE of everything else she is doing could get her top 4/5 at Nats.

Although I would have to see her layback and combo spins...... (In 06 that layback was in danger...like level 2 danger...)
 
I equate what Michelle is doing to when a person who studied music during college or played college level sports but now has a different profession starts practicing again and realizes they love it and it just feels right to let their body move that way ... I don't think Michelle has any idea what her body can do, but is probably discovering yoga has healed her and helped her maintain her fitness in such a way that she is able to perform in a way most could not.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPJXH12B4_W/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbHkBq1jMWd/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BR28bWhBYGt/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOQSOaAB3Cd/?hl=en
 
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attyfan said:
IME, exercise is very good for stress ... and (I understand that) divorce is very stressful.
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And being on the wrong side of a brutal Presidential campaign. I imagine that she had anticipated a job in government (she has the credentials), and that went poof last November. Good to see/hear her happy and confident.
 
bardtoob said:
I equate what Michelle is doing to when a person who studied music during college or played college level sports but now has a different profession starts practicing again and realizes they love it and it just feels right to let their body move that way ... I don't think Michelle has any idea what her body can do, but is probably discovering yoga has healed her and helped her maintain her fitness in such a way that she is able to perform in a way most could not.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPJXH12B4_W/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BbHkBq1jMWd/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BR28bWhBYGt/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOQSOaAB3Cd/?hl=en
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I think yoga has given her body a new sense of core strength. The spirals are stunning. Was her Charlotte ever THAT extended?

I almost feel like she can probably spin well now. :P
 
Marco said:
I think yoga has given her body a new sense of core strength. The spirals are stunning. Was her Charlotte ever THAT extended?

I almost feel like she can probably spin well now. :p
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Marco, I changed my avatar for you so you can see her Charlotte in 2002. This was the Hershey's Kisses Championships. It's pretty close. I do think with that Yoga, that she has extended it even more. Way to go, Michelle!
 
bardtoob said:
Maybe she can finally achieve attitude in her layback leg position that Uncle Dick would find worth mentioning before she gives up :p
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Remember she did that in 2000 after being criticized by Dick in 1999, but she lost almost all the backbend?!
 
How Stella got her spiral back:
You all are talking like divorce and politics aren't related. Her husband, a legacy candidate, ran a terrible campaign unmasking a perceived sense of entitlement, and lost to a woman, the first female governor for the state. Then she was part of a campaign that seemed headed for an historic win of first female president until at the last minute her co-worker's sex addicted husband was caught sexting a teenager and the male fbi head announced a troubling investigation and somehow white college educated women decided they'd rather have an admitted molester leading the country than a bunch of women who can't keep their men in check. Then hubby decided this loss period was the perfect time to file for divorce. Moore seemed ready to win in AL and we get Coe spirals and charlottes. Now that the tax bill has passed, maybe we'll see a 3z. If only we all had an ice rink to flee to to unwind as the whole darn world seems to have lost its collective mind. Lol
 
I want a new program from her like now. Actually I’ve been wanting it for like seven years but whatevs. If Ye Bin Mok can post beautiful skating vids of her on YouTube after retirement, so can The Kween. She and Karen Kwan and Peter need to start that project. Imagine an East/West rink YouTube channel with updates featuring THE Michelle Kwan. Or just a Kwan channel.
 
bardtoob said:
Maybe she can finally achieve attitude in her layback leg position that Uncle Dick would find worth mentioning before she gives up :p
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Right, but MK did achieve good Dick Button-approved leg turn out in the layback spin briefly during 2000 -2001 season or thereabouts, but it's not an easy leg position to get into and maintain. Here she is at 2000 Worlds in the sp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaBYU7Za9EY look for the layback (not perfect free leg position but much better)

MK eventually went for the easier variation she learned from a famous fs spin doctor of dropping the free leg down rather quickly to fold against the working leg, as she continued spinning in the layback: (I forget what the variation is called)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQbrwqNE0A 2001 Worlds fp scroll to 2:25
 
aftershocks said:
MK eventually went for the easier variation she learned from a famous fs spin doctor of dropping the free leg down rather quickly to fold against the working leg, as she continued spinning in the layback: (I forget what the variation is called)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsQbrwqNE0A 2001 Worlds fp scroll to 2:25
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I always wonder if she was inspired by another skater to do that position, although she would probably never say it.
 
^^ No, it was the spin doctor specialist, whose name I can't remember who taught the move to Michelle, and possibly taught it to Miss I Tonya as well. :lol:
 
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