Junior Short Dance Report Victoria Hasegawa & Connor Hasegawa – “The Merry-Go-Round of Life” (waltz) Good character, the most expressive I’ve seen them skate. Cute play on a sibling rivalry theme. Excellent twizzles (lv 4, +0.5). Level 4 on both…
Novice Free Dance Report Although quite a few of the teams hit some bumps along the way, the novice dance competition at the 2011 Skate Canada Junior Nationals in Victoria, B.C., ended up just about as expected. The top four…
The 2011 U.S. National Championships get underway on Sunday, January 23rd with the novice compulsory dances. Since 2008, the main event arena has hosted all of the competitive events for all disciplines, novice through senior, and this year that honor…
On January 24, the European Championships get underway in Bern, Switzerland. The battle for the gold medal will likely be between France’s Nathalie Pechalat & Fabian Bourzat and Russia’s Ekaterina Bobrova & Dmitri Soloviev. Great Britain’s Sinead Kerr & John…
For the first time since 2000, a real battle for the Canadian dance title is expected. Since Olympic champions Tessa Virtue & Scott Moir have withdrawn this week from the 2011 BMO Canadian Championships in Victoria, B.C., the title is…
Blog #3 – Ice Cream Goals Thursday, 20 January 2011 This morning was another early one…of course, of all events, the senior dance practice had to be first this morning! So I was the first person in the media room…
Fifteen junior teams will take the ice on Wednesday and Thursday to fight for placements in the 2011 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals. Last month, the teams all faced each other at the 2011 BMO Skate Canada Challenges to qualify…
2011 SKATE CANADA CHALLENGES SENIOR: Rank Competitor(s) Section SD FD Points 1 Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill CO 56.82 81.76 138.58 2 Tarrah Harvey / Keith Gagnon BC/YT 45.30 78.78 124.08 3 Helene Letourneau / Kevin Boczar EO 36.58 65.02…
On January 17, the 2011 BMO Skate Canada Junior Nationals will kick off at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria, B.C. As usual, the novice dancers have the task of starting the competition, bright and early, with their pattern (compulsory)…