it's always winter here

Katya. Figure skating. Eadem mutata resurgo. In this hall, we dance.

[sashkin]

im at a loss for words really

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^Well THIS has really really serious meme potential somehow... :S

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Hey figure skating folks, writing research question:

Scenario: two skaters from the same national team are competing at a senior-level elite event (I'm thinking a Grand Prix event, specifically). They're there alone because their coach couldn't come.

If they wanted to hang out backstage for moral support, and especially keep each other company in K&C, would that be allowed?

(The skaters in question are different genders, and so wouldn't be competing in the same groups/on the same days. ETA: They are both from the same nation, and are the only 2 singles skaters from their country at this event.)

[mrkestis]

What was stars on ice even about?

[twizzlesarefake]

it's pride month. have some amber textposts to celebrate

Part 1 | Part 2

[violetsbookshelf]

Pointe Skirt by Darinika Atelier

[winter-in-valhalla]

Not sure if this design is impressive or terrifying

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[donttalktotherainintherain]

Thoughts:

If Shae-Lynn could choreograph two programs with the same theme but performing in completely opposite styles for them

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~~~Imagining dueling Swan Lake programs with Misha as the black swan and Ilia as the white swan, both choreographed by SLB~~~

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Misha in CA working with SHAE-LYNN BOURNE? :D :D :D

[iliamalininsgoldmedal]

There’s something about this clip I swear

[winter-in-valhalla]

Something...but not nothing? ;D

[mrkestis]

I’m also not over this I’m thinking about it every day just so you know

[winter-in-valhalla]

Hey figure skating folks, writing research question:

Would a skater ever start a free program with a spin sequence? (Especially in the era around 2010, with the technical requirements being what they were then?)

(My OC will probably do it regardless cos he's just that stubborn, but now I'm wondering if this would ever really happen)

[violetallnight]

riiiiiight…head spins in Pairs incoming i guess

[winter-in-valhalla]

...TBH the first thing that I thought when I read this was "oh god don't give Malinin any more (dangerous) ideas" lol

[geurujam]

boyang's beautiful 3A during warmup // worlds 2019

[winter-in-valhalla]

3A'S! magnificently at judges

[twizzlesarefake]

Hello I can’t stop thinking about the Misha situation. I’m so angry at Kazfed on his behalf. Are they TRYING to fumble an Olympic champion?????? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU FUMBLE AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION.

What do you mean they haven’t paid him for five months????? What do you mean he’s training 4-4 combos without access to a doctor??? What do you mean they’re trying to make him contractually obligated to medal again???????

Misha’s win was exciting in part because he’s the only OGM I can think of who won at a time in his career where he so obviously had plenty of room to grow and many more things to achieve — he’s nowhere near his peak, and I thought his victory would get him the resources he needs to improve his components, work with a world-class choreographer, not have to worry about training costs, etc. Instead he’s having to fight for the bare minimum just as he’s done his entire career. It’s frustrating as a fan, so I can’t even begin to imagine how he feels.

The way he’s being treated by his fed would be unacceptable even if he WASN’T their first-ever figure skating gold medalist and one of the best skaters their country has ever produced. Given that he IS, it’s almost comically evil.

And to rub salt in the wound, this is all being done to him by the country that he absolutely adores and is so proud to represent. All he’s ever wanted is to make his homeland proud and win FOR Kazakhstan so that other Kazakhstani kids don’t have to struggle like he has struggled. And this is how they treat him. Unbelievable.

[inthemere]

My opinion on Shoma being shorter than Marin is the sooner we’re normal about a shorter male lifting partners the sooner we’ll be normal about shorter female lifting partners and the more normal we’ll be about same gender/sex ice dance teams that’s all I’m saying

[winter-in-valhalla]

^THIS

Also, could these two maybe bring back the reverse lift plz?

[denissvasiljevs1999]

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Deniss vs hockey skates 🙈

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^Why Hockey and Figure Skates Are Not Interchangeable 101

[isuanti]

What kind of trials and tribulations are they putting him through 😭

[isuanti]

#myclassypresident

[winter-in-valhalla]

~~incoherent sputtering~~

But...no athlete can possibly commit to medaling in any competition, let alone one four years away! That's not how sports work, there are too many variables beyond an athlete's control!

Even if this got kinda mangled in translation to English and KazFed really meant "must commit to staying in the sport/training for the next four years, with intent of making it to the next Olympics," no athlete can guarantee being able to do that either...so, again, what the hell, KazFed?

Either way, really seems like KazFed's trying to push him into an agreement he's not okay with...(and KazFed seems to have gotten even pissier over him wanting it legally reviewed, funny, that.)

(Also: if "we want him competing through 2030" is really the whole issue here, "messing with funding" and especially "pulling medical supervision from someone with a history of recurrent illness issues" don't seem like the way to go about that)