2025-2026 Canadian Figure Skating

[DemTuppesSeine]

I just hope they're being reasonable and not doing anything that could cause injury. Not in an Olympic season please!

 

[4everchan]

1) they cannot do a quad in the SP so that's out of the question.

I bet it's a brand new lift.

Other than that, it could be a rare variation of a death spiral...

I cannot see anything else in the SP really.

 

[4everchan]

I just hope they're being reasonable and not doing anything that could cause injury. Not in an Olympic season please!

I am not worried... it could be a double cantilever lol.. something that nobody has done but is not that crazy

 

[saine]

It's a throw/assisted backflip.

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Honestly not sure what to think of this...

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Honestly not sure what to think of this...

I remember a Chinese pair doing this in domestic competitions, so it's not even completely new. To be fair, few people have probably seen that, so Deanna and Max probably didn't know they weren't the first. To make it worse, the Chinese team did it better

 

[saine]

JGP Gdansk entries:

Men
David Bondar

Women
Hannah Quinn

Ice Dance
Veillon/Brandys

Pairs
Cheung/Lee
Desrochers/Thrasher
Quattrocchi/Lacasse

They haven't updated the entries on the Skate Canada international assignments page for the JGPs past Bangkok (including not listing Callahan/Furman), so David's second assignment isn't confirmed. Quattrocchi/Lacasse did confirm this would be their second assignment on Instagram.

 

[FlossieH]

Why... Even as a throw, the backflip is risky and it is not an element which carries any points...

 

[FlossieH]

So if David Bondar is getting a second JGP assignment, I assume that means that Eddy is losing his one?

 

[DemTuppesSeine]

Why... Even as a throw, the backflip is risky and it is not an element which carries any points...

I've been asking myself WHY ever since I saw that video. Yesterday I literally said they wouldn't do anything risky this season

 

[Ziotic]

I've been asking myself WHY ever since I saw that video. Yesterday I literally said they wouldn't do anything risky this season

To stand out on Olympic ice with all the occasional viewers.

To me, this means they are thinking media and not medal.

A kitschy move and her “age” story will be headlines for the games so they may be looking at setting themselves up for the next chapter.

A medal isn’t out of the question, but it may be better for them to think about enjoying the games rather than their placement.

 

[Diana Delafield]

I remember a Chinese pair doing this in domestic competitions, so it's not even completely new. To be fair, few people have probably seen that, so Deanna and Max probably didn't know they weren't the first. To make it worse, the Chinese team did it better

Well, I may have seen a pairs program that was a clumsier string than this of one ungainly element after another, not just the backflip, but I can't remember where or when. There was a Canadian pair working on an assisted backflip at one of the Toronto clubs, either the Cricket or the Granite, in the 1970s. But I heard they were ordered to stop by the club director after she kicked her partner as she flipped. I heard it took several ice cleanings to get rid of the blood pool. I never heard any rumors of anyone else trying it since on the ice, although I've seen it done in gyms in cheerleader routines.

 

[saine]

So if David Bondar is getting a second JGP assignment, I assume that means that Eddy is losing his one?

I don't know if Eddy had a JGP assignment. The first three JGPs look to have had their entries decided before NextGen, which would mean three spots would be left for the remaining JGPs (with one for Anthony.) And the selection criteria doesn't have assignments based on placements at NextGen. They may have decided to give him Icechallenge instead.

 

[saine]

Beverley Smith wrote an article about the back flip:

Back flipping to the Olympics - Bev Smith Writes

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxim Deschamps make history every time they step onto the ice. It could be that – now 42 – she’s the oldest skater crazy enough to undertake this most dangerous of skating disciplines. And there was that mind-twisty forward outside death spiral that others would never...

bevsmithwrites.com

 

[Cutting the ice]

It definitely has people looking and talking. It works better with the music - not as jarring when she stops after the flip, but I will hold my fan opinion until see it with better camera work. If she had flow out of it, it would be more aesthetic. But I do appreciate that they are skating within the music and feeling it in their choreo. What a demanding piece. Very impressive were the SBS spins that not only were in unison but matched the music. Actually, great unison through the programme too for so early in the season. Kudos for wanting to stand out and taking a risk to do so.

 

[4everchan]

Beverley Smith wrote an article about the back flip:

Back flipping to the Olympics - Bev Smith Writes

Deanna Stellato-Dudek and Maxim Deschamps make history every time they step onto the ice. It could be that – now 42 – she’s the oldest skater crazy enough to undertake this most dangerous of skating disciplines. And there was that mind-twisty forward outside death spiral that others would never...

bevsmithwrites.com

and there is another surprise ? oh lord.... what else can they do now ? A quad throw salchow ?

 

[rabidline]

It's a throw/assisted backflip.

I'm kinda into it

 

[Diana Delafield]

and there is another surprise ? oh lord.... what else can they do now ? A quad throw salchow ?

The Salchow's been done quite a few times by others, like Duhamel and Radford. They'd need to do a more difficult throw as a quad to be different.

There's a move I saw in a show program by Duhamel and Radford that I'd like to see in competition if it were legal. They did a throw (can't remember which one) straight into a SBS double Axel. She stepped forward from her landing, and he did a 3-turn while she was in the air doing her throw jump and stepped forward for his jump. The risk there is that if she falls on her throw landing and doesn't get her Axel in, and he doesn't have time to stop, he might land his jump on top of her. I have no idea how something like that would be marked if it were successful.

 

[4everchan]

The Salchow's been done quite a few times by others, like Duhamel and Radford. They'd need to do a more difficult throw as a quad to be different.

they said surprise... did they say it was something never done before ???

There's a move I saw in a show program by Duhamel and Radford that I'd like to see in competition if it were legal. They did a throw (can't remember which one) straight into a SBS double Axel. She stepped forward from her landing, and he did a 3-turn while she was in the air doing her throw jump and stepped forward for his jump. The risk there is that if she falls on her throw landing and doesn't get her Axel in, and he doesn't have time to stop, he might land his jump on top of her. I have no idea how something like that would be marked if it were successful.

yeah i know about that throw-jump combo but i doubt it's something like that and it's not legal anyways... it would be counted as a throw... and a jump after it... not as a combo

 

[Jumping_Bean]

Sara Maude's 3A from High Performance Camp:

https://www.another site.com/r/FigureSkating/comments/1n7hm4q/sara_maudedupuis_lands_3a_can/