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- Feb 7, 2006
I'm not really worried about her "fan-base". I'm sure that will significantly increase from her most recent performances and on-camera exposure. A skater need not be from California or New York to be nationally popular.
Jill Trenary was from a small town in Minnesota and had a shining reputation among those who actually met her in person. Kimmie is gaining that reputation with the press and with people who meet her. Many skaters gain popularity that way regardless of what people perceive in her skating style itself. Quite often a skater's "personna reputation" will spill over to the spectators and TV viewers.
Those of us who saw her skate her Debussy and Ravel programs at 2005 Nationals know that she can skate softly and lyrically but we also know that under the new scoring system she had to first establish herself as a major power skater. Having done that in spectacular fashion, she can now work on blending more of what we saw in 2005 into a new program that will be a "vegetable soup" of both powerful and lovely elements.
I don't necessarily expect ANYTHING she does to bring you around to enjoying her skating, Red Dog, but to each his own.............
Jill Trenary was from a small town in Minnesota and had a shining reputation among those who actually met her in person. Kimmie is gaining that reputation with the press and with people who meet her. Many skaters gain popularity that way regardless of what people perceive in her skating style itself. Quite often a skater's "personna reputation" will spill over to the spectators and TV viewers.
Those of us who saw her skate her Debussy and Ravel programs at 2005 Nationals know that she can skate softly and lyrically but we also know that under the new scoring system she had to first establish herself as a major power skater. Having done that in spectacular fashion, she can now work on blending more of what we saw in 2005 into a new program that will be a "vegetable soup" of both powerful and lovely elements.
I don't necessarily expect ANYTHING she does to bring you around to enjoying her skating, Red Dog, but to each his own.............