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Hmmm...Is your daughter in your avatar? she is a doll, how adorable!
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Hmmm...Is your daughter in your avatar? she is a doll, how adorable!
Is your daughter in your avatar? she is a doll, how adorable!
Here's a super HD version (higher frames per second) of the FD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMrkbFpOPUU
My short this year is set to “Fix You” by Coldplay. My choreographer, Drew Meekins, and I were just messing around with different pieces of music on the ice one day and we came across “Fix You.” We both knew that the Shibutanis had used it and accomplished so many great things with the program. I knew that I would have some big shoes to fill and a lot of expectations for that program because Maia and Alex had skated to that music so well and with so much emotion.
Doing this program has really taught me how to pace myself and how to perform because I really look up to the Shibutanis and I really wanted to display a program at least somewhat close to what they were able to accomplish artistically. I had a lot of expectations of myself and I worked really hard in the off-season with modern dance and ballet to improve my components and my ability to interpret this piece.
Same as I thought about the rotational lift, even if their twizzles in the SD don´t get the maximum score, they must keep them because the positive reaction of people toward their twizzles is undeniable, I mean, it is great if people like or love their program, but for people who don´t love it, it is very important to have eye catcher elements, and their twizzles are truly a highlight of their programs. Judges are nor rewarding them as a perfect element yet, unfortunately, but it is almost there, and when teams like H/D or P/C got more points sometimes in their twizzles, Shibs twizzles are definitely more reliable. And it's not because they do not take risks, because doing a set of 8 twizzles in the SD and doing a fourth set of twizzles in the FD is very risky (By the way, I think only the Shibs and Alla/Pavel are doing 4 sets of twizzles in seniors). But it's that Maia and Alex seem to communicate telepathically to each other, I do not even think they train their twizzles much more than other teams, that's just a talent they have.
Nice Shibsibs shoutout from U.S. men skater Camden Pulkinen, who is heading to JGPF next week: https://www.ifsmagazine.com/u-s-junior-men-final-showdown/
Baby Maia had amazing posture! https://www.instagram.com/p/BcL0W7ylGx6/?taken-by=maiashibutani
Baby Maia had amazing posture! https://www.instagram.com/p/BcL0W7ylGx6/?taken-by=maiashibutani
Haha, I actually posted that in his Insta feed!I see Alex has taken my advice and has really stepped up his IG photo game to get those followers. I approve![]()
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BcNxBAajAvO/?taken-by=alexshibutani
it seems they leave to Japan tomorrow
I can´t believe that GPF is this week , poor guys, 3 programs in 24h, ¨rest¨ 1 week, then travel to Japan. This picture is fabulous too https://www.instagram.com/p/BcOWrRolvGi/?taken-by=maiashibutani.
I kept staring at the weird starburst on Maia’s hip and wondering what it could be. It took me quite a while to realize it was her hand!That picture is amazing!
well, I am not very photogenic, you're not missing anything interesting, but indeed, I took very few pictures, I was too much excited watching the competition, and no pictures with the Shibs because there were always many people and honestly to say just congratulations with my poor English, I did not think it was worth it. But I'll tell you something, during the ice dance victory ceremony, my mom wanted to take pictures of me, I let her take two but she insisted that she wanted to take me more, and I was like, ¨mom, stop it, I do not want more photos, I want to see the ceremony¨, and shortly after I saw to Shibs parents a few rows behind us, I told her to my mom, ¨oh, look, those are their parents¨, then their dad came down the stairs to take pictures of them, and he took them like a million pictures, and they smiling and posing for him, and then he gives them the US flag and he continues to take pictures of them and they keep posing just for him, then my mom told me, ¨look, they let their dad take all the photos he wants, they are good children, yes, they are definitely good kids, that is why they have come so far. You could learn a thing or two from them¨, followed by a 20-minute lecture on how I should try to be like them, actually, everything she was saying made sense, but I was like, ¨Is she really comparing me to the Shibs?, The Shibs made me look bad before my mom?
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¨ I was about to defend myself by telling her, ¨I'll tell you something about your perfect Shibs... they skate slow and small, they have skated Coldplay the last three seasons in a row and Maia has been checked 6 times for doping just this year, super suspicious situation if you ask me¨, but instead of that I just had to accept that I am not the best daughter
.No, my mom was too much focused recording them, that was the screamer girl next to us, she was really excited too.
I can´t believe that GPF is this week , poor guys, 3 programs in 24h, ¨rest¨ 1 week, then travel to Japan. This picture is fabulous too https://www.instagram.com/p/BcOWrRolvGi/?taken-by=maiashibutani.
I chose back to back night shifts for this Thursday and Friday weeks ago and now I might miss all of dance at the GPF. Nooooooo what have I done?!
I effed up
Clearly I am not used to planning life around skating yet. Fail.
Damn!!!, I did the same, I work in the afternoons but I committed myself to work this week mornings and afternoons, I think that on Thursday the SD is at 6:40 am and I go to work at 7am. But that arrangement was made a month ago and I had forgotten it completely
, if it were not for your post I would not have gone to work tomorrow
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, thank you. I never miss my job, I promise.