Mad for Skating
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Dylan and Kirsten reunited made my day
Dylan and Kirsten reunited made my day
There should be a Puke button.
^^^^ Ya aint gotta tell me but once
I would like to point out that I'm wrong about Matteo achieving everything possible as a roller skater. I don't know anything about the competitive structure of roller skating. I think Matteo at least was an Italian champion in roller skating. But oh, on Matteo's Instagram he indicates that he's a 2008 World champion in roller skating. Maybe he was a World professional roller skating champion perhaps? Can @Sk8swan help clarify? And probably the Italian skating federation recruited him to become a figure skater? Unless that was a personal goal Matteo had all on his own.
As I can see from your avatar pic! What a bod! I hope his personality is as sublime and fetching ...
Oh, if figure skating had had Matteo back in his youth with Sara Venerucci as his diva on ice. Yum!
Ya know, that move at 3:33 to 3:37 in this clip with Matteo and Sara, is so boss, it'd be cool to see this done in pairs figure skating, but it's probably way too dangerous to consider with a skate blade on the man's foot as his leg in camel position whips around and around over his partner's body while she's hovering on her own in a backward death spiral entry position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRf_rr2hp00
Lucky you @Sk8swan to have talked with Matteo in person. I'll have to check out the interview in his native Italian -- perhaps I can get a semblance of understanding via the closed caption English translation feature in Youtube.
Although it looks very cool as performed, I don't like the name of that move btw: Guillotine Pairs figure skating understandably would never touch that move, especially not with that name!
If you need help I might traslate some parts of it... though it's not what he's saying that's funny in itself but the way he talks about it... he just makes you smile and laugh (and you can see it also from the lady host reaction!)... you lose these naunces when you simply traslate what he's saying.
Ah! Maybe it will just be wonderful to bask in the rhythmic sound of his voice speaking in his native language.
So this document also says, pairs events at challengers will be reduced to a certain number (like junior grand prix).
Sucks for the events, which got cut, but might be better to avoid a mess like this year.
Although it looks very cool as performed, I don't like the name of that move btw: Guillotine Pairs figure skating understandably would never touch that move, especially not with that name!
Hi, T/M’s free program is beautiful, thanks for coming to my TED talk!
I hope Vladimir will project more as I feel she’s doing most of the work.
It’s a gorgeous program for them; I think it will be so good later this season. Nice to see them add the 3LzTh. I hope Vladimir will project more as I feel she’s doing most of the work.
don't disagree with the criticisms of T/M, but when I watch them live for some reason I find them much more compelling than on video. Well, maybe it's because they were clearly the class of the field here even with the errors. E/K are very charming as well, though I find myself looking much more at him than her - with T/M it's just the opposite.
thanks for coming to my TED talk!
They have three and a half years to work on the little details.
Being the best at Skate America doesn't take a lot. Of the winners, T&M were the worst for me, and seemed slower than other times I have seen them live. Satoko, Chen, and H&D were far more admirable.