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Well how dare you not have every piece of Jason Brown info memorized and citeable!
Oh StitchMonkey-- that's priceless!! Your cat has superb taste.
And yet another cat person on this thread!!
Well how dare you not have every piece of Jason Brown info memorized and citeable!
I can understand how Jason is more of a dog person. His personality does seem very puppy-like, as karne said. But sometimes it's a matter of meeting the right cat - mine is super affectionate, meets me at the door when I come home from work, and loves to cuddle! I think Jason would approve
http://figureskatersonline.com/jasonbrown/profile/
He lists his favorite animals as dogs (and dolphins)
I have three kitties out here in Colorado who were very sad to read that
Point is. . . cats are not the lumps some people think they are.
They surely aren't, StitchMonkey-- I adore mine (all four!) and consider them my family.
Do we know whether his family has any pets?
(I consider myself a dog person, although I do not have any. )
Well how dare you not have every piece of Jason Brown info memorized and citeable!
http://i.imgur.com/3kBmNyV.jpg they do still enjoy watching him skate.
StitchMonkey, what a great photo of your red cat with Jason. And a red girl, too; they are somewhat unusual. (or at least red boys are more common).
Alabhaois, I *love* torties. Never had one (two calicos, one here, one on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge), but you should make one your avatar. We also have a black female, Cibaria, but she is way too regal to have cutesy photos taken for public display.
Ah well, Jason is a young man who for all his accomplishments on this ice still needs to learn the glory of cats. I did not appreciate them until young adulthood, as I grew up with dogs (and I still love dogs), but then I met a man with two cats. Not in his parents' basement. Twenty five years of marriage later, we're holding steady at six. Now if I could only train him to watch skating like StitchMonkey's cat....
Well @amberglenniceskater today sure ended with a splash! Thanks for Nominating me to do the #ALSIceBucketChallenge to help raise awareness for the ALS Foundation! @sk8coachirok...You're next!! Along with @jbrownie7 & Dylan Brown!
The reason you do not see as many red/orange/ginger girl kitties is actually the same genetic reason you do not see man male calicos/torties. The gene for that color of fur is linked to the X chromosome in cats. Males only having one X chromosome, end up ginger cats if that chromosome is ginger. With females, you have to have both X chromosomes be ginger for the cat to be ginger. If they have one X that is ginger and one that is something else (usually black/gray) you get a tortie/calico kitty. In order for a kitty to have both the ginger fur, and the dark/black of torties/calico you need two X chromosomes, so the only way (short of strange selective breeding for things like toygers) a male can be a tortie/calico is to have an extra chromosome (they would need to be XXY) which generally renders them infertile
As for training human to watch skating (or did you mean the cats). Try suggesting a summer comp sometime. I was showing my human some of the videos of the Broadmoor open and he very quickly said he would be happy to take me on a date to something like that. I think he found the lack of costumes refreshing to be honest. He can appreciate the physical nature of the sport, but he can't always get the costumes. Also try pointing Kori out to your husband or "the hot coach" as my better half calls her every time the camera cuts to her. He found the red head coach sending her skater out to skate to Irish music a bit clever and endearing.
To take it back to Jason and his off ice training since the handstand walk is so popular (as it should be!) not sure if this has ever shown up on here and searching for it through this thread is a bit daunting, but he did a podcast http://competitorradio.competitor.com/2014/03/jason-brown/ in March for a sports show that talked a bit about his training routine. Essentially training for Iron Man competitions is a large part of it (he claims he would love to do one. . . I would so love to see that. Frankly I think it would be really great for the sport, people don't get that this is a sport and these are athletes, seeing a figure skater kick some burly guys asses in an Iron Man comp would be awesome). Overall it was nice to get to hear him talk in a less rushed interview where he has time to say what he wants. Also the part where the hosts start talking about "quads" meaning quadricep is a bit amusing.
...is this for the challenge, or something else?Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
... Jason took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge today:
video link: http://instagram.com/p/rqWIV0zXHT/
It's certainly one way to make the SP more exciting.
...is this for the challenge, or something else?
and if the challenge, here is the link for all the challenges, with Kori going after Jordan Mueller as well. She better watch her back.
http://www.skatetoday.com/2014/08/12/skaters-particpate-in-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge/
Cute photo of mischievous Jason and imperturbable Rohene sharing a locker room bench at Glacier Falls:
http://instagram.com/p/rP96xXlVve/ (posted Aug 3 by @emilyoltmanns)
And Jason said that Kori is next :yes: -- along with his sibs.
The YouTube version of Jason's challenge:
Jordan @jomosk8 also took the Ice Bucket Challenge today mid-spin :
The YouTube versions are from Skate Today Videos.
(ETA ... oops ... I was posting the links above at the same time that el henry was editing the general Skate Today link into the post above. Great minds. BTW, I do like reading the Instagram captions, which the YT videos do not include. Jordan's Instagram caption is especially sweet. )
But the heaven help anyone if they tag Rohene; I can't imagine what that would do to his fab hairstyle.
He should just take it as a challenge to put enough gel, hair spry, glue, blood of small children, etc in his hair to make it survive.
Well how dare you not have every piece of Jason Brown info memorized and citeable!
http://i.imgur.com/3kBmNyV.jpg they do still enjoy watching him skate.
I get the feeling he hasn't had a lot of contact with cats. I did read about his favorite animals, as well remembering his quote
that if he didn't move on in life, he'd "end up living in [his] parent's basement with 25 cats," making it sound like the last thing
in life he'd want! I can find that quote if you like-- I forget when he said it, but it was this year, I'm pretty sure.
Thinking back on it, I seem to recall he said it on Arsenio's show (post-Olympics)
Ah! Here's the clip. At 8:20 he says it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjPO8QdsL2U