Thanks again
@Tony Wheeler and
@mysticchic! Great job with these interviews. P. J. Kwong is so enjoyable to listen to with her breadth of knowledge, experience and professionalism.
I loved the visit with Madi and Zach and their respective doggies!
Madi's Pomeranian/Husky Nova is adorable. Nova looked so sweet and satisfied sitting in Madi's lap. Nova obviously loves being the center of attention. She appeared to be flirting through the screen with her pretty blue eyes.
Zach was looking very handsome and sexy btw.
And Madi seemed a bit tired, as if she'd just awoken. They were cool to share time with us and to be so open. Your questions were good ones, Tony. And it's always nice seeing your handsome face on screen! I think it's quite cool though that you apparently made a conscious decision to vary things by mixing it up with the screen views and also inserting skating videos when relevant. It keeps things moving and engaging, rather than static and boring.
We learned quite a bit about Hub/Don's personalities, training routine, program music selection process, competition preparation and their plans for the future. We even learned about Madi's (and Kaitlin Hawayek's) love for makeup! That's fun for Madi starting a Youtube makeup channel. Tarah Kayne has previously done makeup videos on Youtube. It was also very interesting to find out that Madi's Mom is a skilled seamstress who has made most of Madi's skating outfits. How wonderful that Madi is planning to start an online clothing-related business with her Mom which Madi hopes will help provide funding resources for her to eventually assist Adria Diaz in starting an ice dance training center in Spain! And Zach's interest in developing a fitness center sounds wonderful. I like their laid-back approach to planning but also being open to seeing where life takes them. More power to Hubbell/Donahue!
The interview with Jimmy Ma was very enjoyable as well. It's too bad that he was told at Champs Camp to drop his The Weekend fp choreographed by Joshua Farris. Jimmy seems a bit sad about it, but hopefully he might be able to rework that program and bring it back at some point. It appears that Jimmy has a productive and fruitful relationship with his choreographer Morozov, and that he enjoys training with the Cains in Texas, even despite missing the East Coast.
I can't thank you two enough for taking the plunge and going with your ideas to put this site together for us hardcore fans starved of positive good coverage and entertaining skater interviews. I like how you open with the guests introducing themselves, and making it about them. Still, it would be nice if at some point we got to hear a little about you two, your passion for and involvement in figure skating, and your mission for the site. Obviously, many of us on FSU know about your backgrounds, but casual viewers who come across the site on Youtube will likely be interested in and benefit from learning more about you in some form, even if it's just brief bios written in at the tail end credits. Thanks again, and I look forward to enjoying the site's continued progress!
For example, I’d like to get to know better what the Japanese skaters think of the skating, competitions etc.
