2025 Skate America Practice Reports

[dorispulaski]

If you have any, or see any on line, please post them!

There are practice coverage tiles on Peacock!

Sessions start on November 13 at 10 a.m.Eastern Time.

 

[dorispulaski]

Schedule for the Practices

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Peacock Practice Coverage Schedule

Date​	Event​	Time (ET)​
Thurs., Nov. 13	Pairs	10:00 .
Thurs., Nov. 13	Women	11:35
Thurs., Nov. 13	Dance	13:10
Thurs., Nov. 13	Men	14:45
Fri., Nov. 14	Pairs	12:00
Fri., Nov. 14	Men	13:15
Fri., Nov. 14	Women	14:30
Fri., Nov. 14	Dance	15:55

Practices not on Peacock

Date	Event	Time (ET)
Sat., Nov. 15	Dance	8:00
Sat., Nov. 15	Pairs	9:15
Sat., Nov. 15	Women	10:30
Sat., Nov. 15	Men	11:45
Sun., Nov. 16	Dance	10:30
Sun., Nov. 16	Women	11:45

 

[dorispulaski]

And the practices will have Jean-Luc Baker and Jackie Wong!

Jackie Wong tweeted:

As well as being available on Peacock, the practices will be available on USFSA's YouTube channel for 24 hours after the livestream.

Here is their channel:

U.S. Figure Skating

U.S. Figure Skating is the national governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States.

m.youtube.com

 

[ManyCairns]

TIL that Peacock has practice cams. Search for "Rink Side" if the tiles for them don't come up with your usual search results.

And BTW Peacock's search function is horrid. Searching by an event's title rarely yields anything, e.g. The amount of manual searching you have to do is ridiculous!

 

[dorispulaski]

Searching on "figure skating" works

 

[ManyCairns]

Weirdly, "figure skating" hasn't worked consistently well for me. It will pull some things but not always, sadly. I get more hits with just "skating" but not always all the tiles for the same event. It's crazy. I manually go under All Sports and scroll to make sure I am getting all the disciplines/tiles for each event. And it beats me why you can't get hits for event titles like "Skate America," or last week for "NHK." Again, crazy/ridiculous. I loathe Peacock, but it's all I've got.

 

[skylark]

Searching on "figure skating" works

that's what I do. Works like a charm

 

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Pairs on iceJLB says smaller rink but many teams .. take care folks

 

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Bird in the arena?! Grade schoolers in audience
Beautifully done Canadians

 

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Georgian lady slid into board near camera with good recovery; JL admires Luca’s skating skills

 

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Japan doing lifts; they have right of way but very very close to Georgians in background

 

[ManyCairns]

JL is sooo darn good as an announcer. Personable, warm, and super informative.

 

[SmileHappy34]

Watchthe pairs practice now. All seems good. Just feeling out programs and ice change of time. What always do.

I can't see how people can tell they will skate in competition by practice.
To me they practice what they think they need to work on.

 

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Emily & Spencer Free some applause
Go Olivia & Luke

 

[ManyCairns]

A comp like a GP "would deplete my soul, from what I'd put into it" -- JL talking about Emily and Spencer just having competed at NHK and how little time they've had to recover with the time changes and long travel times.

 

[yuumagical]

Shallow comment, but I'm glad to see the French sisters in the audience from the practice cam!

 

[yuumagical]

During Gubanova's practice, JLB mentioned that ice dance has become more about entertainment than exploring different dance styles (within a discussion about authenticity and exploring styles of dance from different countries). Really appreciative of his honesty on that point as well as his idea that there are a lot more gray areas in the concept of authenticity within the context of performances than many are willing to give credit to.

 

[SmileHappy34]

I watch the women practice. They all were there and wonderful.
Most of the women skated with ease and flow. They let the movement show.
To me a few skated stiff but still great.

It will be interesting to see how plays out.

Yes some women fell but expected.
Why , get nerves out to test how others doing.

They do keep an eye out for other skaters in practice.
If one does it another skater does it to show. Yes the skater can.

 

[skylark]

Watching Pairs practice was interesting (first 4 pairs, all business) and very emotionally engaging -- with the second 4 pairs. The second group were Present. I watched Emily and Spencer again and again.

I loved Jean-Luc's commentary on Emily and Spencer. "they're hot and cold" ... "when they're on, it's SO beautiful" ... "Spencer is so expressive." and "they genuinely live and feel the music."

I'd add that when they (esp. Spencer) direct that expressiveness to each other, it's out of this world.

 

[SmileHappy34]

First thing I noticed does the dancers tend to practice in the outfits they skate in their rhythm or free dance.
The women and pairs mainly didn't.

No I am not giving out who does what
I am enjoying the practice.