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erasona said:
Question: Are program books still sold at big championships like World of GP Final?
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Hello to all Russian skating fans!!! I have another language question for you. As some of you may know, I have always loved Maria Butyrskaya. I have called her my "Dream Skating Wife" ever since I saw her live in Finland.

I'm sure it will never happen but, if I was ever able to meet her, I'd love to be able to say more than."UUUUUUUUHHHHHHH.......You're Beautiful".

What's the most polite way to tell someone you love and respect their skating in Russian? I can say please, thank you, and how do I get to....But sadly, that's about it. I realize she would probably understand me if I said it English however, I'd really like to try. Maybe it would make her laugh.

Thank you in advance.
 
Hey guys! I'm not sure where to ask this... But the forum threads for the WC 2015 ladies and men's SP have totally disappeared on me! Can others see these threads? Am I missing something?

Can a mod please message me and let me know if there's a reason I can't see these threads anymore?

Thank you!
 
sbaker said:
Hey guys! I'm not sure where to ask this... But the forum threads for the WC 2015 ladies and men's SP have totally disappeared on me! Can others see these threads? Am I missing something?

Can a mod please message me and let me know if there's a reason I can't see these threads anymore?

Thank you!
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The ladies SP thread is back. The OP has been updated with the starting order.

And I'm sure that the men's SP thread will be back too.
The SD and pairs SP threads were temporarily unavailable yesterday, but they were back well before the competitions started.

Don't worry -- I'm sure the mods would not remove a thread permanently. [ETA, I meant a Worlds competition thread ;).]
 
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KwanIsALegend said:
Are Tara and Johnny commentating Worlds?? ,,,
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Yes.

KwanIsALegend said:
... Seems as if Tara is home according to her twitter pics.
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Tracy Wilson is reporting from Shanghai for NBC -- per the NBC press release, which is posted in the Worlds TV/webstreaming thread.

For most events, Weir/Lipinski's commentary is recorded in a studio in the U.S. (Skate America and U.S Nationals are major exceptions.)
 
golden411 said:
Yes.



Tracy Wilson is reporting from Shanghai for NBC -- per the NBC press release, which is posted in the Worlds TV/webstreaming thread.

For most events, Weir/Lipinski's commentary is recorded in a studio in the U.S. (Skate America and U.S Nationals are major exceptions.)
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That seems weird that they would not be there. AFAIK Dick and Peggy were always at worlds. Strange.
 
KwanIsALegend said:
That seems weird that they would not be there. AFAIK Dick and Peggy were always at worlds. Strange.
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If NBC were willing to take on all the necessary production costs and logistics, I trust that Weir/Lipinski would be more than happy to travel to Worlds and as many other GPs and ISU competitions as possible.

But it's unrealistic to compare the Button/Fleming era to now -- in terms of what networks can and cannot afford.

StitchMonkey said:
I don't think Dick and Peggy had near as much luggage to travel with.
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LOL ... in fairness to W/L:
When I first saw how much luggage W had in Greensboro, I did think that it was overkill -- until I realized later that they had to schlep all their wardrobe and other stuff for Super Bowl week to Greensboro. As soon as Nats ended, they had to head straight for Arizona.​
 
golden411 said:
LOL ... in fairness to W/L:
When I first saw how much luggage W had in Greensboro, I did think that it was overkill -- until I realized later that they had to schlep all their wardrobe and other stuff for Super Bowl week to Greensboro. As soon as Nats ended, they had to head straight for Arizona.​
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And it is part of their job/image. Heck I suspect stuff about their image is in their contracts even, NBC wants them to look like show pieces. I just can imagine how logistically it might be more of a pain for them to travel to locations.
 
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere, but what's the deal with the odd way most male skaters go into a donut spin...like they kind of bend their free leg down then grab the blade and pull it up, it looks rather messy. Is this just a flexibility thing? Does doing it this way score better?

I couldn't help noticing, because Plushenko (and maybe some other skaters I can't recall right now) don't do that, they keep the free leg at the same height the whole time, which I personally think looks better.
 
anonymoose_au said:
Not sure if this has been covered elsewhere, but what's the deal with the odd way most male skaters go into a donut spin...like they kind of bend their free leg down then grab the blade and pull it up, it looks rather messy. Is this just a flexibility thing? Does doing it this way score better?

I couldn't help noticing, because Plushenko (and maybe some other skaters I can't recall right now) don't do that, they keep the free leg at the same height the whole time, which I personally think looks better.
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It does look much better when the free leg doesn't dip, but it's much harder to do.
 
I'm kind of confused while watching Tuktamysheva's Worlds FS (congratulations!). I don't know if the rules changed this season, but I thought that for jump combinations, the jumps have to be linked by the same edge. Yet Tuktamysheva faltered a bit on landing her initial lutz, and did two 3-turns before her double toe loop coming out of that, and the same thing between her triple toe loops. Yet they were still scored as combinations. Why?
 
Vanshilar said:
I'm kind of confused while watching Tuktamysheva's Worlds FS (congratulations!). I don't know if the rules changed this season, but I thought that for jump combinations, the jumps have to be linked by the same edge. Yet Tuktamysheva faltered a bit on landing her initial lutz, and did two 3-turns before her double toe loop coming out of that, and the same thing between her triple toe loops. Yet they were still scored as combinations. Why?
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I second that question.
 
Stupid question: why a spin is almost always the ending element? I kind of understand it makes a final point, but why always?
 
dorispulaski said:
It's not always.

Gracie Gold ends with a choreographic step sequence
Dasa Grm ends with a flip jump
http://www.isuresults.com/results/wc2015/wc2015_Ladies_FS_Scores.pdf

However, a spin is handy for making your program come out matching the music. If you're a bit behind, you can cut off a rotation or two, and although it will cost you a spin level, it won't affect the way the program looks.
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Thank you, i see =)
Would love to see more stuff not ending with spins =D
 
Pippuripihvi said:
Feminine ending is applied only to names having certain endings (-ov, -ev, -in, -skiy). If the name's ending is different, then a feminine ending is not applied. And the ending would be different in many cases because there are more than 200 ethnicities in Russia and some of them have names specific to them. Plus, the influence of geography and politics over the centuries.



Actually, names in Russian are among few words where you can predict the stress. It depends on the noun that was used to make a name. The stress in the name stays the same as in the noun that it was derived from. But the bad thing is that sometimes you don't know the original noun :laugh:

Radionova - from the name Rodion written with mistake
Voronov - from the word Voron (crow)
Kovtun (although with this one the stress will depend on the origins of his name, have no idea what it means)
Smirnov
Morozov - from the word Moroz (frost)
Lipnitskaya
Tuktamysheva
Medvedeva - from the word Medved (bear)
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And from the depths of the thread, the stress in Tuktamysheva is on the first A: TuktAmysheva
http://topspb.tv/programs/v12369/ around 9:20
 
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