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[sunskate]

Juulia Turkkila & Matthias Versluis 2023 Nebelhorn Trophy FD

📷: yoriko suzuki

[flores-desyatov]

Do you happen to have the video of the Lake Placid 2023 Senior Dance Medal Ceremony?

No, sorry :( I don't really know if that was streamed but there are pics on ice-dance.com

[virtchandmoir]

What is your relationship with your new coaches (Scott Moir, Madison Hubbell and Adrián Díaz) and teammates at I.AM? CC: We have a really great relationship with our coaches. We have so much respect for them and we trust their vision, so it is very easy to work with them. We also have a really good relationship with the other skaters at IAM. They are all super nice and fun to travel and train with. We are really lucky to have such a positive and motivating training environment.

AP: I love the team we have around us. Scott, Madison, and Adrián are fantastic to work with and each one brings a different energy to the team. Being a part of IAM gives us the opportunity to train with some of the best and it is an honour to watch them work!

—ice-dance.com

[yuzu127]

https://photos.ice-dance.com/2009-2010-season/2009JS-GPF/Bonus/Men/JuniorSP/page/2/

[papciz-gram]

gabriella_guillaume_fan: Practice #gabriellapapadakis #guillaumecizeron #papadakiscizeron #figureskating #icedance #france #teamfrance #olympics #olympics2022 #beijing2022

(08.02.2022)

[allekha]

Figure Skating Resources

Learn Stuff

@sywtwfs - start here, as So You Want To Watch Figure Skating has lots of useful basic info, plus competition times + how to watch them, as well as breakdowns of CoP updates

the-real-xmonster’s tech posts on jumps, spins, and steps (+spirals)

illyria-and-her-pet’s detailed guide to steps and step sequence breakdowns

Skate Guard Blog is a cornucopia of figure skating history posts

ISU handbooks for singles/pairs and ice dance - sometimes you just gotta go to the source

ice-dance.com has dance pattern information and charts, as well as a listing of compulsory/short/rhythm dances for each season back to 1968

wtficedance website/twitter explains technical aspects of ice dance as well as singles/pairs elements (this and above shared by beautifulstorms - thanks!)

Search Technical Elements

SkatingScores - searchable protocols and elements, stats, and score calculator

Figure Skating Elements Search - search elements by skater/year/competition back to 2003. The site is Japanese, but the search form is in English, so it should be easy to figure out

Search Results

Skatabase - searchable entries and results by many factors back to the earliest days days of the sport, including the smaller competitions I’ve tried entering; national competitions do not go back as far

RinkResults - search competition results by skater/competition/competition series/country represented, as well as highest-scoring elements; also attempts to provide a video for every program on the same page as the score sheet (shared by aitlu, thanks!)

Search Costumes

@figureskatingcostumes - Costumes tagged by skater, discipline, year, country, and sometimes other attributes like details or color.

Search Music

Figure skating wiki - has most music used by the most popular skaters, typically more recent ones

Frogs on Ice - music for well known skaters, 1992~1996

Tadaaki Masuda’s list - music by season and sometimes by discipline, 1979~1997

Maeno’s Skating Music Page - sorted by season/discipline/music source, 1997~2006, covers quite a few skaters

Skate Music List - you can’t search any more now that it’s only on the Internet Archive, but the drop-downs by season/name/music source still get you to pages. 1976~2006 or so.

If you are looking for a specific song, I would also recommend using site:en.wikipedia.org on Google + the words ‘figure skater’ or ‘ice dancer’, as many skaters have their programs listed on their pages. (Wikipedia has a native category search, but I found it kind of janky.)

Creative Commons Photos

Wikimedia Commons - sorted by skater/year/costume color (here) /etc. There are several photographers who upload regularly

Phantom Kabocha’s Photos - sorted by skater/competition, 2012-present. Many beautiful photos, and they are all CC-by!

Selected Video Sources

ISU - some technical videos and full replays of recent competitions, and as of this season, individual videos of skaters/pairs. You may need a VPN to access some replays depending on your country

HD full Olympic replays

Olympic Channel - popular Olympic programs (many under ‘Music Monday’) and some misc. things like fluff and Olympic compilations

Olympic Channel Figure Skating - still gearing up as of the time of this post, but same type of content as above, except without all the other sports mixed in on the channel

Mintaka Alnilam - HD videos from the 90s and early 2000s 🤩 Midori Ito (and many others!) in 1080p!

Mintaka Alnilam Annex - other great historical videos that are less HD than on their main channel

3axel1996 - 1977 to 1998, early 2000s

floskate - mostly 1960s to 1990s, but also some earlier footage

Ryan Stevens - Skate Guard Blog’s Youtube channel; mostly 90s

Hyacinth B. - mostly full US TV replays, mostly 90s and early 2000s

GoldenAgeofFS - late 60s to early 2000s

sabinfire - 2014 to 2017, good quality videos and some full replays

On-Ice Perspectives - videos filmed on ice with the skaters

germann1968 - has uploaded an old ISU training video series on what the different components are supposed to mean, including examples (there is a more modern one on the ISU channel as well)

Planet Hanyu archives - Yuzu-focused, but also has some other skaters and some full replays, nicely organized, competitions from 2011 onward - note: most videos do not play if you disable third-party cookies (also shared by beautifulstorms)

[anewbeginningagain]

Just look at those damn edges!

(source: ice-dance.com)

[saucylittlesmile]

Did the ISU just unironically write "the man thrusts strongly" into its description of the key point like that? I cackled for about 6 minutes straight. Thanks for posting the description. Now I'm going to go hunt for the rest of them, so I can frame by frame where teams are going wrong.

😉

Okay, so these descriptions will be as old as practically the dances, and since the ISU doesn’t seem to have a sense of humour, I’m gonna go with yes, it was unironic. However, that doesn’t mean we can’t find it to be amusing.

I should have posted a link. Ice-dance.com is a wonderful resource, and easy to find information for patterns. https://www.ice-dance.com/site/pattern-dance-descriptions-patterns/

The Midnight Blues pattern description specifically mentions adding in personal variations to add to the blues feel, as long as the free leg, holds, and steps remain correct. On top of that freedom, the introduction if key points means teams can achieve their level as long as they get the exact described requirements (the ISU says, for example, correct turns or correct edge on these exact steps), and the GOE is based on other criteria, so really there probably is very little punishment for taking an easier route.

[swiftbejeweled]

Do you know the results of the senior RD at the lake placid ice dance international?

Courtesy of Ice-Dance.com’s facebook:

Can I just say...holy shit Green/Parsons...

[chelsanitys]

Since there’s no doubt L/L are the best juniors and are better than most of the seniors (better than C/P for sure) I wonder why are they still underscored? Is it because of their off ice relationship? Cause it actually looks like they hate each other when they’re in the k&c

listen, in the upcoming war between c/p and l/l, i am LL 4 LLYF

i admire their spunk! there is a complete and utter COMMITMENT when they skate - like they are SELLING IT with every shred of passion in their teenage souls…….and that kind of devotion and dedication? that kind of fierce fidelity to your vision? is fun to watch! like i don’t like their fd at all this year - i don’t think the choreography takes advantage of the music enough, THERE IS TOO MUCH KNEE SLIDING!!!!!!!!!, and i don’t like any of their lifts. but they COMMIT. and they sell me on a mediocre program. 

they do remind me more of dw than vm, especially stylistically - the classical music warhorses, the speed, the lack of romantic connection. but i think they are an improved version of dw. for one, zach isn’t a dead eyed zombie like charlie white. charlie relied on his hair to do most of his emoting for him - his face was always this canvas of utter BLANKNESS. watch any old dw program and his face is just like -.- the whole time. whereas zach has INTENSITY and he PROJECTS and he is contributing equally to the emotional garden of the program. and l/l have real speed which dw did not. dw always looked frantic bc they had no knee bend and got all their speed hopping and toepicking over the ice. l/l have much better technique - the speed is all coming from the knees, not the boot. they skate with so much abandon - but it’s never out of control or unmanageable. i am so impressed by the level of polish on their programs this early in the season - i know you can’t compare the senior calendar to the junior calendar, but their rd is just so crisp and clean whereas every senior rd i’ve seen so far has been a disaster. they have improved so much, every single season - this was the first year i saw them where i was like ‘yeah they’re ready to make the jump next year’.

and here’s a hot take: they have better chemistry than c/p. YEA I SAID IT. its not a romantic connection like c/p are clearly trying to project, but it’s a stronger connection. it helps they look at each other occasionally. 

(they are also much better matched than c/p are. zach and marjo are much closer talent-wise than anthony and christina. and zach might be less talented than anthony, but marjo is much better than christina.)

and i know some ppl are concerned they apparently have a volatile relationship and have broken up once before, but i think they’ve worked it out. i remember an old snap from like 2016 at jr worlds where they were hugging and goofing off in a hotel room. so they don’t hate each other’s guts, even if they’re not like super close. ice-dance.com had an interview with them this week and i was struck by how committed to their long-term goals together they were and how very much on the same page they seemed. i think they both take their careers very seriously - which is another thing they’ve borrowed from the davis and white Business Partner playbook. which…good 4 them. if i’ve seen this movie before, it means they will be executing every program flawlessly for six years to multiple world titles while their competitors sleep together n ruin everything

[sunskate]

Leia Dozzi & Pietro Papetti 2023 Autumn Classic International RD

[virtche]

I got those, it’s easy. It took me a while to warm up to it because I have my own idea of what the program should be, but I love Tessa and Scott’s “Moulin Rouge,” even though it’s not my favorite of theirs (my favorite is one from when they were juniors). [...] [Pink Floyd] was one of my favorite programs from Tessa and Scott, even though they hated it. It was different for them, that’s why I liked it.

Zach Donohue for Ice Dance.com (What are your favorite programs from other skaters in the last few seasons? Both in ice dance and other disciplines.)

[icedanceupstarts]

Source: ice-dance.com

[wangshiyue]

Wang Shiyue & Liu Xinyu, Pirates of the Caribbean || 2018 Autumn Classic (Robin Ritoss/Ice-dance.com)

[olyagasanova]

📸: ice-dance.com