A few weeks ago, Samantha Cesario announced her retirement from competitive figure skating at 21. In doing so, she became possibly the first skater to cite the current judging system (IJS) as a factor in her decision. “I'm a skater who has always prided myself on my ability to perform for an audience and bring …
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Now that the season is over, I decided to put together my own idiosyncratic list of the Best, Most & Worst of Pairs 2015. Fair warning: My choices here are totally unscientific and quite subjective!! So, feel free to disagree! 🙂 PAIR of the YEAR: Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford No surprise here: I don't think anyone …
On Sunday, I took my 5-year-old, very active twin girls to their first ice show! It was Colonial Figure Skating Club's 2015 club show: “Ice Crystals: Spiraling Through Time.” I can't do a real review of the show, because truthfully, I only had one eye on it most of the time. (My other eye was …
