- Joined
- Jun 21, 2003
http://www.theskatinglesson.com/frank-carroll-interview-part-1/
(This is also posted in the Announcements folder, q.v.)
(This is also posted in the Announcements folder, q.v.)
Yeees! No matter how much some of you may hate the blogger Aunt Joyce, Dave's (with co-host Jenny Kirk) interviews are definitely worth listening to. I'm uber excited about this one!
Yeees! No matter how much some of you may hate the blogger Aunt Joyce, Dave's (with co-host Jenny Kirk) interviews are definitely worth listening to. I'm uber excited about this one!
The program components are supposed to reflect how you skate through the program. Did Patrick skate through his program better than Denis skated through his program, [and by a full point]?... [Unlike Denis' errors of omission,] Patrick's mistakes really were interruptions and interfere with how you are running through the program.
I wasn't crazy about Jenny Kirk's previous text-only blog, but this YouTube account/series with Dave is a great combination.
The two interviewers did a great job asking questions and keeping the interview (quite a long one--not easy to achieve) on track, though I still find Jennifer's voice not quite what it needs to be.
If you go back to some of her You Tube things now, to me it’s amazing to watch Michelle. It’s amazing. I can’t tell you what pleasure I’ve gotten just in the last couple of weeks looking back at her videos, and when you see Salome and she starts out with a triple loop it’s just the most beautiful triple jump -- she starts backward totally and jumps in the air and lands backward like a million dollars, so I don’t see much difference between my toe jump technique and my edge jump technique.
But I’ve got to tell you something about Michelle. If you go back and look at 1996 or if you look at the year 2001 and you see her triple-triple, and you look at the year 2000, then you see some of her show programs like to Les Miserables, the On My Own, and even Pocahontas, which I didn’t want her to do because I though t it was such a hokey thing, and you look at her interpretation of the music, and her head, and her use of arms without looking at her feet, the emotion, the beauty of the flow across the ice, the dynamic landings, there’s no one in the world who skates like that.
I’m sorry, I don’t care whether you’re adding up beans in a pot for difficulty…I mean, no one exists like Michelle, with that beauty of movement, that power, that imterpretation, you know, the technical accuracy. You know, she was one of a kind and I don’t see anyone coming up that looks like that. I’m sorry, I just don’t. I don’t.
What a satisfying thing for any fan of Michelle to hear