#aggressive skating

[louiejoyce]

The covers for Godzilla: Skate or Die #2 have dropped! The first cover is mine and the second is Juni Ba’s amazing variant cover for this issue. Out in July, make sure you’ve ordered through your local comic store! 🦖🛼🛹🛼🛹🦖

More on the comic here: https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/louie-joyce-godzilla-skate-or-die-comic-book-interview

www.louiejoyce.com

[bettyspaghettylegs]

alley oop soul <3

[theskategatsby]

Heartbreak Olympics: Beijing 2022

It's decided; Kamila Valieva, Alexandra aka Sasha Trusova and Anna Sherbakova will represent Russia at the 2022 Olympics. They are all under the same coach, the infamous Eteri Tutberidze.

First up: the team event. This event consists of 8 parts, a short and a free program for each discipline. Surprisingly enough, Kamila Valieva, the favourite to win it all, is chosen for BOTH the short and the free program. This is surprising, seeing as both Anna and Sasha missed out on an opportunity to win a gold medal here. To nobodies surprise, Russia wins the team event. However, right before the medal ceremony, the ISU releases a statement saying that the medal ceremony will be postponed. After a while it becomes clear that someone on the Russian team has tested positive for a drug test. This is none other than the 'perfect' Kamila Valieva. While the investigation is ongoing, Kamila will be allowed to practise and compete, but if she ends up on the podium, there will be no ceremony.

With Kamila possibly out of the way for the gold medal, everyone looks at Sasha to win first place. When, on the 15th of February, the short program rolls around, Kamila places first, to nobodies surprise. Anna places second, and on third place we have the Japanese Kaori Sakamoto, and on fourth place, Sasha. Sadly, Sasha fell on her triple axel, which she had not been able to land even a single time in competition that season. This ended up dragging her total score down by a lot.

Next up: the free program. From the three Eteri girls, Sasha is up first. Her performance contains 5 quads and she lands them all, therefore making her the first woman in history to land five quads in the olympics. Sasha is pleased with her performance and thinks she will win the gold medal. This is because Eteri promised her that if she landed those 5 quads, she would win.

After Sasha, it's Anna's turn, she delivers a near perfect performance, landing all her jumps including two quads. At the kiss&cry, when Anna receives her scores and Sasha realises that Anna has more points than her, she breaks down crying and screaming "YOU ALL KNEW ". While this is all happening, it's Kamila's turn.

Everyone expects Kamila to deliver another perfect performance, but to everyones surprise, she delivers the worst performance of her life. She falls on most jumps, and the ones she does land are wobbly. As soon as the gets off, Eteri starts scolding her for her performance. When Kamila receives her scores at the kiss&cry, and realises she is off the podium, she says 'at least the medal ceremony won't be cancelled now' and breaks down in tears.

Anna Sherbakova is the new olympic champion, with Sasha Trusova second, Kaori Sakamoto third and Kamila Valieva in fourth.

Anna, who has just won the competition that she worked for her entire life, isn't celebrating. Her coach and all of her other trainers are busy trying to comfort either Sasha, who is still crying and saying she never wants to skate again, or Kamila, who broke down under all the pressure from the public. Anna later said that the first feeling she had when finding out she won, was empty.

Sasha, who hasn't won a major competition in three years, thought that this would be her moment, especially because Eteri promised her that win if she landed 5 quads. Some of the things Sasha said are: "Everyone has a gold medal, everyone, but not me. I hate skating. I hate it. I hate this sport. I will never skate again. Never," and "I haven't been winning major events for three years. I always try to reach a goal, I always add more quads,". This entire situation is even more heartbreaking when you add that Anna and Sasha used to be best friends, and they share their room at the olympics. Since the olympics, there have been no signs of them still being friends.

Anna, Sasha and Kamila have all endured years and years of abuse at Eteri's camp, from skating while injured to not being allowed to gain any weight. All of this just leads me to wonder, was it worth it?

Links:

Anna Sherbakova: short program, free program

Alexandra/Sasha Trusova: short program, free program

Kamila Valieva: short program, free program

[brightbirdart]

Wanted to share a moment I felt proud of and I am really trying to avoid Twitter. So hello Tumblr. Here’s a picture of a Marilyn stall I did.

[munchguy]

Skating counts as research, right? 👀 Perhaps I'm enjoying the marvels of concrete engineering

[skatedaduk]

LEARNING TO SKATE AT 41

My First Time

May 18th, 2023

On 16th February 2023 I watched one of my children playing by themselves. What were they doing?

Well, Ashanti (10 yrs) was inline skating. She got so much joy from trying new things and pushing the limits of what she could do. She simply had no fear.

While she was playing on her own I had a thought, I could do this with her !!!!

I had never put on inline skates in my life but that wasn’t going to stop me. I looked among the adverts on Facebook market place and found some for £15. They seemed OK I guess. I had no idea. I bought them anyway.

3 days later I collected the skates and tried them while the kids were at school. Safe to say I fell on my rear end more than expected. This didn’t stop me. I hid them in my bedroom until the end of the school day. Once I had picked up the children and brought them home I asked Ashanti to come upstairs with me. With a little anxiety kicking in, she started her climb upstairs. Once she saw what I had done it gave her the biggest smile upon her face. She immediately shouted “let’s go out together dad !!!!! “

We skated for only 30 minutes. Those 30 mins were so amazing. My daughter was proud of her dad as was I of her.

This was the start of something special.

 



[triggerextremesports]

Jacob Juul Fall 2023 | Trigger Skate

[piracyismymiddlename]

What I want to do:

Run -> jump onto bench -> jump into grind on bench backboard -> jump 360 heal grab -> land.

[canisalbus]

Would Machete be supreme at skating like an absolute angel of movement, or would choas be imminent?

[When I saw these boots I instantly thought of him :') ]

I think it's likely he'd be on the more awkward side, he's anything but athletic. The again, he managed to adjust to wearing high heels and I like to think he's become remarkably surefooted and graceful with them (to the point he feels a bit out of sorts without them), so it's not like he has no sense of balance or proprioception whatsoever. If he really wanted to skate well he would be able to learn.

[bettyspaghettylegs]

missing the miniramp hard today 🥲

trick list, in order:

backside stall x2

backside broken knee stall

backside stall

can-can stall

fakie stall

marilyn to can-can switch up (combo)

fakie one foot stall

basic stall

fakie marilyn

[sonic-adventure-3]

unmmmmm outfit concept or something

[alwayshappyhoursomewhere]

"Together with Stéphane" [x] [image description in the article: Shoma Uno holds a piece of paper with his hopes for the second half of the season, which says "together with Stéphane", in Beijing, China, on December 10, 2023.]

―This season you are focusing on expression, but do you actually feel like there is a dilemma between the skating that you want to do and the current rules? ◆Until last year, yes. I didn't like that what is considered as a good performance is 'jumping'. [...] But it's what we do within the rules. We have to be able to adapt to any rule. So I also want to practice according to the current rules. Until last year, my opinion clashed with Stéphane's on this aspect. I only wanted results, while Stéphane wanted me to work hard on expression as well. But expression doesn't really bring points. Until last year I was thinking, 'No, no, I have to focus on jumps'. Now I agree with Stéphane. I don't know if it's because I'm in a state of mind where I'm satisfied with my results, but now I'm going in the same direction as Stéphane, so I want to do the things he wishes for."

―After your performance, you turn to coach Lambiel right away. Is that because you want to see his reaction first? ◆First of all, yes. This time, after the short program was over, he looked really delighted. He was really pleased after this free skate too, and I was really happy about that. There's a part of me that feels like I'm working hard for that. I guess that that kind of moments are what make me happy.

―Your fellow teammate Koshiro Shimada also said, "The goal of Shoma and I is to make Stéphane scream in excitement as much as possible.'' ◆Certainly (laughs). That's for sure.

―Does it motivate you to perform in a way that makes people around you happy? ◆Of course that's one of my motivations. However, making Stéphane happy is more like a "goal" than a motivation.

―You wrote "together with Stephane" on the cardboard. ◆This is my current state of mind. My heart, mind, and motivation are overflowing, and although this grand prix series made Stéphane really happy, I can still make him even happier. From now on, I want to do my best and work hard towards the next events together with Stéphane, and show the results in competition.

(Note: this was translated by me, but a much longer full translation has been shared here and here with more content than what I posted on tumblr)

[env0]

Only a year or so late. SKATE EDIT 2023

[resssistance]

Happy 25th birthday to Shoma Uno! To all your smiles, and many more that are yet to shine. Thank you 💙