Skate America 2014 Practice Reports

FSGMT

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Are the skaters already in Chicago? Official practices should begin tomorrow: let's share the reports here!

 

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I will be there Thursday morning. I will be happy to report.

 

FSGMT

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georgia said:

I will be there Thursday morning. I will be happy to report.

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HanDomi

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Yay, GP is starting arty:

 

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samson

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THANK YOU GEORGIA!!!

So happy to have the grand prix starting up!!

 

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Machida and the Shibutanis are there....

https://vine.co/v/Oh7BDLppbxA

 

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lets gooooo. the wait is finally over.

 

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I have all event tickets, which include practice sessions. However my tickets start Friday. Do we need a ticket for practice session tomorrow(Thursday)?

 

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sfiers said:

I have all event tickets, which include practice sessions. However my tickets start Friday. Do we need a ticket for practice session tomorrow(Thursday)?

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I have the same. My understanding is you bring any of the tickets and you will be granted entry into the practice, because they all say "practice Access" or something like that on them. (Sorry - I don't want to grab mine as I'm afraid I'd lose it, so I don't know exactly what it says)

 

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Thanks!

 

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I'm grateful for any practice reports!

 

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Ohhhhhhhh, a practice reports thread! Now it's really started!!!

 

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georgia said:

I will be there Thursday morning. I will be happy to report.

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YES! Thank you georgia!!! :yay:

 

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Sasha'sSpins said:

I'm grateful for any practice reports!

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I'm hoping to get some info so that I can shuffle my predictions around a bit

 

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ozmodiar said:

Machida and the Shibutanis are there....

https://vine.co/v/Oh7BDLppbxA

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I love the Shibs so much

 

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ozmodiar said:

Machida and the Shibutanis are there....

https://vine.co/v/Oh7BDLppbxA

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Love Maia's cute smile and Tatsuki's embarrassed expression. but Tatsuki NEEDS some hair cut!!!

 

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deedee1 said:

Love Maia's cute smile and Tatsuki's embarrassed expression. but Tatsuki NEEDS some hair cut!!!

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He's going retro. It's classic late 80's.

 

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Oh gosh, that is just the cutest thing!

 

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ozmodiar said:

Machida and the Shibutanis are there....

https://vine.co/v/Oh7BDLppbxA

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They are darling, I was about to leave work/book a flight right now just to watch them skate.

 

deedee1

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Newbiespectator said:

He's going retro. It's classic late 80's.

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He wasn't born yet, was he? But seriously, that's the reason I like Tatsuki a lot ever since he moved up the seniors. Becasue he reminds me of rather 6.0 era skaters, though of course he's been training under CoP rules and coping with them pretty well. And same goes to Takahito Mura for me. The way these two skate (and the way Taka Kozuka dresses his costumes, sorry Taka fans!) remind me of 'Showa no kaori (昭和の香り)=nostalgia for good old days' a bit.