A Figure Skating Blog
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, […]
Last week Skate Canada announced that Shae-Lynn Bourne and Viktor Kraatz will be inducted into the Skate Canada Hall of Fame. After a decade of remarkable success the reward is well deserved.
I’ve never been much of an ice dance fan, but I do remember the first time I saw Bourne and Kraatz on TV. I […]
I thought the women were very well costumed at Canadians and US Nationals. Not so for the men. The women seem to have figured out that a costume is purely an add-on to their program, not the main event. I found the men’s costumes so distracting and over the top that they took away from […]
Will someone please get our Senior women a spin doctor! With the exception of Joannie Rochette’s solid spins, the spinning in last weekend’s Nationals was appalling. In an effort to pick-up more points in the new scoring system skaters are inserting more positions into their spins. It sounds like a good idea, but their basic […]