A Figure Skating Blog
A drawback to living in Malta with no TV for the next couple of months is that I’m relegated to watching skating on YouTube–and it’s not pretty. In fact, it’s so desperate that I haven’t seen Jessica Dube and Bryce Davidson’s Skate America free program yet. Someone post it please!
I’m guessing that the long program […]
The CBC website has posted some great photos from Tokyo. I'm sure they'll be adding to the gallery all week. My favourites so far are Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao in mid lift and Mao Asada practicing a Bielman spin, putting most yogis to shame.
I know many visitors to Boot and Blade aren’t avid skating fans. As such, here’s a few top tips for watching the World Figure Skating Championships coming up on March 19-25 in Tokyo, Japan.
Don’t miss the TV coverage. For my Canadian readers, CTV/TSN is covering the skating. Here’s the schedule.
Choose the right events to watch. […]
Skate Canada announced today that the 2008 Canadian Championships will be held in Vancouver from January 16-20, 2008. That's great news for this skating-crazy city.
The event will be held in the Pacific Coliseum, which makes sense since the coliseum is also the 2010 figure skating venue. I'll be sure to post when tickets go on […]
Skate Canada has named the World/Four Continents teams for 2007. The team going to Worlds in Tokyo is as expected, but there are some changes to the group going to the Four Continents Championships in Colorado Springs next month.
Most notably, Mira Leung has opted out of Four Continents, so Cynthia Phaneuf will go in her […]
What's happened to the figure skating fans? While watching the skating this week it was clear there were plenty of empty seats at the Metro Centre in Halifax. According to TSN, the 5700-seat arena had more than 1,000 empty seats on closing day. Earlier this year at Skate Canada in Victoria there were also empty […]
It's my favourite time of year. For some people it's Christmas, for others it's summer holidays. For me it's the Canadian Figure Skating Championships. I know, I know, Worlds are intense and the Olympics are uplifting, but the Canadian Championships are the heart of figure skating in this country.
Here are my picks for this year's […]
I'm very pleased to find The Halifax Chronicles, a blog by Rob Brodie who is at the Canadian Championships this week in Halifax. Here's his bio:
Rob Brodie has covered figure skating for various publications for more than 15 years. Along the way, he's filed reports from four world championships, more than a dozen Canadian championships, […]
And here's what the folks sitting around me at Skate Canada had to say:
"Holy mackerel!" Yelped every time a skater landed a jump.
"Whoopsie!"
From someone's grandmother, as Johnny Weir accepts a bouquet from a fan…, "Oh, I think that's his wife." Come on!
On a skater doubling a jump…, "Oh, that was a quad!"
"She is completely flat. […]
I think it's time for skaters to drop the comfortable classics and bring figure skating into the 21st century! While the men and dance couples made a half-hearted stab at something more current, the women and pairs stuck to the classics, with few exceptions.
Joannie Rochette's free program, skated to Don Juan, was executed with […]