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Hi, everyone. Do you know if TCSCC will remain open now that a new lockdown begins in Toronto? I read that elite athletes will be allowed to continue training, but I'm not sure about figure skaters. Can someone enlighten me, please? 🙂
 
I'm afraid Ghislain Briand doesn't teach in TCC anymore, but he doesn't have his own thread, nor does Team Champéry/Stéphane Lambiel, and I don't feel able to open a new thread:

He's going to teach in Beijing at the end of the month, I don't know if it's in a camp open to registrations, or as a reinforcement for regular skaters in an academy.
 
Congratulation to Brian Orser for his Lifetime Achievement ISU Award! Of course its value is diminished by how those things are awarded, but I'd like to say that he deserves it, from his Olympic Medals as an athlete, to his coaching abilities and successes, through his show talent (even as a child, not very interested in Figure Skating, I had loved it. And for his smile.
 
Anne Schelter wasn't a permanent coach at the Toronto Cricket and Curling Club, rather of a synchronised skating team, but she was a legend of edges coaching, she had developed a method for coaching edges ("Annie's Edges") taught by coaches she had taught, and she was a frequent guest coach at the TCC, who posted this after she passed away, a few days ago:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DGbMxGbxa3d/


Skate Canada posted this too:
https://skatecanada.ca/2025/02/21/skate-canada-mourns-the-passing-of-hall-of-famer-anne-schelter/

I'm deeply grateful to her for any influence she had on Yuzuru Hanyu's gorgeous edges, she coached him as soon as he arrived at the club in the Summer 2012:
https://www.coastreporter.net/local-sports/local-skater-trains-with-world-champions-3375823
 
A glimpse into Brian Orser's office was just posted by Chinese visitors , filmed at his presence so hopefully with his permission!
So many photos, dedications, precious memories of not just TCC but a big chunk of FS history. And these two big photographs, autographed and framed, of two legendary figure skaters, two OGMs, often referred to as the King and the Queen, who both happen to have been Brian's students! Kudos to the Coach!
The comment from Yuzu's press conference below which is linked to the video at X, explains the words on Yuzuru's portrait in the office in which he refers to Brian jokingly and warmly as "my dear mom" :)

 
I didn't know they had fan threads for coaches here. Just popping in to say I really love the tandem coaching of Brian and Traci in respect to Jason Brown. I always loved Traci as a ice dance competitor and she's a great natural support to Brian's technical expertise since she first joined him to help encourage and accompany the club's skaters to competitions
 
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I'm reposting this from the Yuzuru Hanyu Fan Fest, because I find it quite telling that out of these six exemplary jumpers, five (Junhwan Cha, Gabrielle Daleman, Jason Brown, Yuzuru Hanyu and Yuna Kim) have been students of the Toronto Cricket Club, only Midori Ito hasn't (and that was long before 2005, when their coaching team was formed):
 
Thank you @DizzyFrenchie for posting this video that I would not have otherwise seen and pointing out the success of TCC skaters in .🎉

While we are here for those who may not know, Tracy Wilson will be doing the commentary for ice dance for US network NBC. She is an excellent commentator and I am looking forward to her 🙌 (Since this is a Fan Fest, I will not comment on the circumstances that led her there and just be happy that she is there).
 
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