Small and Mighty Club

[labgoat]

Way back in 2021, we had been discussing men, dance and pairs at Skate Canada and some of our awesome smaller male skaters and formed a club for them.

Small/Tiny and Mighty Club
Founders @anonymoose_au, @labgoat @moonvine @elektra blue @yuumagical
Prez - Cong Han
VPs - Marco Fabbri & Jean-Luc Baker
Treasurer - Shoma Uno (cause he's precious)
Emeritus - Tamara Moskvina, John Nicks, Nobuo Sato, Scott Hamilton, Midori Ito, Paul Wylie, Dan Hollander
Honorable Mention - 2021 4CC crowd for cheering loudly and for everyone despite their small size.

Criteria: per Prez @anonymoose.au
“I guess if a skater looks noticeably tiny amongst their peers they're allowed in”
TBD by the readers of this page, the lists provided are a starting point only

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Men 5ft 5in/165cm	Women 18 & older 5ft 2in/158cm	Pairs Men- 5ft 7in/170cm Women - 5ft 2 in /158cm	Dance Men - 5ft 7in/ 170cm Women - 5ft 2in/158cm
Daniil Samsonov 150 Dan Hollander 157 Shoma Uno 158 Kazuki Tomono 160 Kevin Aymoz 160 Tomoki Hiwatashi 160 Yuma Kagiyama 161 Tatsuki Machida 162 Shun Sato 162 Nobuo Satō 162 Akio Sasaki 162 Stefan Lindemann 163 Scott Hamilton 163 Paul Wylie 163 Nobunari Oda 164 Florent Amodio 164 Jimmy Ma 164 Mitsuki Sumoto 164 Alexander Fadeev 165 Daisuke Murakami 165 Hiroaki Sato 165 Tatsuya Tsuboi 165 Yasuharu Nanri 165 Armin Mahbanoozadeh 165 Daisuke Takahashi 165 Keegan Messing 165 Mikhail Kolyada 167 Adam Siao Him Fa 167 Brian Orser 168 Nathan Chen 168 Denis Ten 168 Mikhail Kolyada 168 Rudy Galindo 168 Takeshi Honda 168 Minoru Sano 168 Alexander Majorov 168 Wesley Chiu 168 Nozomu Yoshioka 168 Takeru Amine Kataise 168 Kao Miura 168 Han Yan 169 Luc ECONOMIDES 169	Midori Ito 145 Elisabet Tursynbaeva 148 Madeline Schizas 150 Brooklee Han 150 Rino Matsuike 151 Yuna Shiraiwa 151 Kristi Yamaguchi 151 Satoko Miyhara 152 Wakaba Higuchi 152 Yuka Sato 152 Emi Watanabe 152 Júlia Láng 152 Mako Yamashita 152 Rinka Watanabe 153 Ekaterina Kurakova 153 Rika Kihira 155 Mana Kawabe 155 Hana Yoshida 155 Mone Chiba 155 Yuna Aoki 155 Yura Matsuda 155 Rin Nitaya 155 Gabrielle Daleman 155 Deanna Stellato-Dudek 155 Niina Petrõkina 155 Tonya Harding 155 Nana Araki 156 Rion Sumiyoshi 156 Yukari Nakano 156 Dabin Choi 156 Mai Mihara 157 Michelle Kwan 157 Janet Lynn 157 Tomoe Kawabata 157 Satsuki Muramoto 157 Fumie Suguri 157 Yoshie Onda 157 Yuhana Yokoi 157 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva 157 Yukina Ōta 158 Anastasia Gubanova 158 Sasha Cohen 158 Julia Lipnitskaya 160 Ashley Wagner 160 Lindsay Thorngren 160	Men John Nicks ?? Rudy Galindo 168 Tassilo Thierbach 169 Cong Han 170 Armin Mahbanoozadeh 170 Thierry Ferland 172 Randy Gardner 172 Ingo Steuer 173 Robin Szolkowy 174 Mervyn Tran 175 Ryuchi Kihara 175 John Baldwin Jr 175 Rockne Brubaker 175 Trennt Michaud 176 Alexei Ulanov 176 Women Riku Miura 145 Tamara Moskvina 147 Meagan Duhamel 148 Narumi Takahashi 148 Kirsten Moore-Towers 148 Isabella Gamez 149 Rena Inoue 149 Wenjing Sui 150 Oxana Vouillamoz 150 Keauna McLaughlin 150 Mandy Wotzel 150 Jenni Meno 151 Jamie Sale 151 Kristi Yamaguchi 151 Alisa Efimova 152 Ellie Kam 152 Marissa Castelli 152 Irina Rodnina 152 Barbara Underhill 152 Kitty Carruthers 152 Isabelle Brasseur 152 Lori-Ann Matte 152 Aljona Savchenko 153 Lubov Iliuschkina 153 Daria Danilova 153 Elena Bereznaia 154 Sabine Baess 154 Maria Pavlova 154 Maylin Wende 154 Stacey King 154 Deanna Stellato-Dudek 155 Gabrielle Izzo 156 Annika Hocke 156 Miriam Ziegler 156 Nicole Della Monica 156 Ekaterina Gordeeva 157 Alena Kostornaia 157 Alexa Knierim 157 Yuko Kavaguti 157 Anastasia Golubeva 157 Camille Kovalev 157 Tarah Kayne 157 Karina Safina 158 Chelsea Liu 158 Zoe Jones 158 Ksenia Stolbova 158 Oksana Kazakova 158 Natalia Mishkutionok 159 Lia Pereira 159	Men Marco Fabbri 164 Daisuke Takahashi 165 Masaya Morita 165 Gage Brown 167 Atsuhiko Tamura 167 Thomas Nabais 168 Ye Quan 169 Jean Luc Baker170 Michael Parsons 170 Ian Somerville 172 Zachary Lagha 172 Adrian Diaz 172 Logan Bye 173 Juko Pirinen 174 Paul Poirier 174 Kenji Miyamoto 175 Charlie White 175 Asher Hill 175 Maxim Staviski 175 Lewis Gibson 175 Ivan Desyatov 175 Vadym Kolesnik 175 Jeffrey Chen 175 Women Oona Brown 147 Penny Coomes 152 Marjorie Lajoie 152 Utana Yoshida 153 Isabella Flores 153 Marie Dupayage 155 Emilea Zingas 155 Sara Kishimoto 156 Yuka Orihara 157 Rie Arikawa 157 Eva Pate 157 Madison Chock 157 Holly Harris 158 Charlene Guignard 158 Nao Kida 158 Jayne Torvill 159 Meryl Davis 160 Sara Hurtado 160 Solène Mazingue 160 Evgenia Lopareva 160 Lilah Fear 160 Kaitlin Hawayek 160 Maria Kazakova 160 Caroline Green 160 Jennifer Janse van Rensburg 160 Maia Shibutani 160 Solène Mazingue 160 Kana Muramoto 162

We are always accepting nominations for new members.

 

[labgoat]

From @GoneWithTheWind
I love that clip from the GPF in 2018 where Marco and Jean Luc hop up on the chairs for a moment before the photos at the press conference so they can be taller than the other guys for once
I'll see if I can track it down...

ETA: found it: https://youtu.be/OT33CB4pB6A?t=62

 

[labgoat]

On calling small skaters mushrooms...

I think it started with Shoma Uno who was so tiny on the podium next to Yuzu. At times his hair was so thick it looked like a mushroom cap on his head. Unbelievably cute.

 

[GoneWithTheWind]

Some more mighty Marco (and Charlene) content, from the 2022 Olympics, next to Zach Donohue...

 

[NanaPat]

Last year's 4CC short program was a triumph for short skaters. Small medalists were Kao Miura / Keegan Messing / Jimmy Ma! It was extremely striking. So perhaps we should welcome Kao to the club.

Added:
Actual podium was Miura / Messing / Sato, also short. So maybe we should add Sato to the club as well.

 

[labgoat]

Last year's 4CC short program was a triumph for short skaters. Small medalists were Kao Miura / Keegan Messing / Jimmy Ma! It was extremely striking. So perhaps we should welcome Kao to the club.

Added:
Actual podium was Miura / Messing / Sato, also short. So maybe we should add Sato to the club as well.

Welcome Kao Miura and Shun Sato!!

 

[icewhite]

Some more mighty Marco (and Charlene) content, from the 2022 Olympics, next to Zach Donohue...

Women are too small to lift anyone safely.

Jokes aside, nice picture that shows the difference in height well.

 

[labgoat]

I understand both sides of the height issue having been the smallest child in class for the longest time and spurting to be 5 foot 7 inches or 1.7m.

 

[yuumagical]

On calling small skaters mushrooms...

I think it started with Shoma Uno who was so tiny on the podium next to Yuzu. At times his hair was so thick it looked like a mushroom cap on his head. Unbelievably cute.

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that "little mushroom" came from Yuzuru's fans, from back when he used to wear a mushroom-like bowl haircut...

I found lots of cute bowl cut pictures of him here.

Also, why isn't this called the "Tiny but Mighty" club? I enjoy small skaters, so I would like to join, but it sounds so much better that way!

 

[labgoat]

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that "little mushroom" came from Yuzuru's fans, from back when he used to wear a mushroom-like bowl haircut...

Oh yeah, that makes sense also.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

Last I knew Michael Parsons is 5'7"

 

[labgoat]

Honestly, I'm pretty sure that "little mushroom" came from Yuzuru's fans, from back when he used to wear a mushroom-like bowl haircut...

I found lots of cute bowl cut pictures of him here.

Also, why isn't this called the "Tiny but Mighty" club? I enjoy small skaters, so I would like to join, but it sounds so much better that way!

Because that's what @anonymoose_au called them. Please join us - we'd love to have you. To be honest we don't even have an official following.

 

[labgoat]

Last I knew Michael Parsons is 5'7"

Uh oh - There will have to be an open discussion about this to decide on this...
I was going by the comments when I searched for "small and mighty" in the discussion and included everyone mentioned and did not verify everyone's height. Thanks for pointing it out. Any suggestions on what should be the limit?

Paging @anonymoose_au @labgoat @moonvine @elektra blue

 

[anonymoose_au]

Because that's what @anonymoose_au called them. Please join us - we'd love to have you. To be honest we don't even have an official following.

Haha I did I did...

"Tiny but Mighty Club" is an awesome title too! Not sure why I didn't think of that one

 

[TallyT]

I remember that NHK podium with Kevin (who fits) next to Yuzu next to very NOT small Roman, it looked like the 'Class System' sketch with Cleese, Barker and Corbett...

 

[anonymoose_au]

Also! Best thread idea ever!

I would like to add as an Honourable mention despite being 1.66m tall (and thus just above the cut off!) Konstantin Menshov. He didn't look QUITE so tiny as he competed before the Russian men started to be giant... still pretty short though!

Here he is with Sergei V (not known for his height )

 

[labgoat]

Haha I did I did...

"Tiny but Mighty Club" is an awesome title too! Not sure why I didn't think of that one

The question has come up - so how tiny do the guys have to be?
Most are 5ft 5in (1.65m) or less, except for Michael Parsons who is 5ft 7in.
Since you are acting Prez of this enterprise - what say you?

 

[anonymoose_au]

The question has come up - so how tiny do the guys have to be?
Most are 5ft 5in (1.65m) or less, except for Michael Parsons who is 5ft 7in.
Since you are acting Prez of this enterprise - what say you?

Oh no! I'm not sure

I guess if a skater looks noticibly tiny amongst their peers they're allowed in

 

[moonvine]

We voted on and admitted the crowd at 4CC's.

 

[labgoat]

We voted on and admitted the crowd at 4CC's.

They were a small but mighty crowd that loudly supported everyone.
But what say you on the matter at hand?