I particularly loved this:
THE PAUSE IS GONE!
karne is listening to the conference call:
- oh my god, the very first question was about artistry. Is this going to be like the men's SP conference from last year's Nats where all the questions were about the quad?
- listening to the music and feeling the emotions it invokes :luv17:
- it's been tough, but it's the road he's chosen to pick
- yep, question 2 is artistry also
- Max loves the ballet
(his tone of voice when he talks about watching ballet is adorable)
- He wants a program that's more true to him. "It may not look like that, but it's something that I love and enjoy, and that's what I wanted to bring out this season."
- Question 3: ARTISTRY morphing into a question of balance with jumps
- GOOD LORD PEOPLE HAVE YOU NEVER HEARD OF KEEPING THE QUESTION SHORT
- the bigger the movement, the bigger the breath you can take
- he finds it fun: "I didn't know I could do that, really!"
- follow up question to 3 is about the big scores of the top guys - quad toe?
- would love to put the quad toe back in
- he didn't have that second score to back him up before, he wanted to be a more balanced skater
- Max is very echoey, I wonder where he's doing this?
- he's not worried about the quad toe, it's something he can do
- Question 4 is about the changes to the programs
- SHORTEN UP THE SLOW SECTION, he did not
want to have that long rest (he really emphasises the word "want") :hap93:
- working on the spins, cleaning them up and aiming for level 4
- cleaning up the lines, making every movement as big as possible
- Question 5: backing up from TEB to Tallinn
- TEB was not the way he'd trained
- he's glad it happened because he thought he was getting to overconfident in his abilities
- he was proud of himself that he proved to himself he could hit the programs again in Tallinn
- Question 6: his biggest concern going into Nationals
- not a concern per se, but he has goals, he wants to live in the moment, he doesn't want to get too far ahead of himself or too low
- he wants to do two clean programs "and I'll lay up where I lay up"
- Follow up of 6: what it would mean to recapture his title
- It would mean a lot but it would mean even more to do two clean programs
- He wants to be up there with "them" (the top guys putting up those huge scores)
- he loves the pressure and he wants to fine tune that
- That awkward silence when the host person prompts the journalists for questions and no-one answers
- Max thanks the journalists as the call ends.
, you made me run to my old 'Longman dictionary' at midnight on the New Year's day, karne! Nice to learn a new word of course, but I'm not so sure if I ever use words such as dude or bloke in my real life, though. 
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