LOL, everybody has done this with grandma clothes, i want to see the video nowAs for Michelle's Salome outfit, I though it was ridiculous -- a little girl playing dress-up with old clothes that she found in a trunk in the attic, left over from grandma's days as a showgirl.
LOL, everybody has done this with grandma clothes, i want to see the video now.
I remember asking my Mum if Gershwin ever mentioned a giraffe as the inspiration for Rhapsody in Blue.My small memory of kulik was the girafe costume and his large smile and hair, but i was a kid and he looked very fascinating with the orange / yellow outfit! Jumps seem all the same and I though back then they are optional in a program
The fact that with a glove beak and feather-looking shirt Johnny could actually look like a swan, as Antman mentioned -- I don't know. I seems strange to hold an athletic contest to determine who can look the most like a bird. Plushenko could try for an eagle, I suppse.
Here is an example, for me. The only thing I rememeber about Ilia Kulik's Olympic LP is that he wore a comical shirt. (I "know" that he did a quad, but I don't really "remember" it in my mind's eye.)
As for Michelle's Salome outfit, I though it was ridiculous -- a little girl playing dress-up with old clothes that she found in a trunk in the attic, left over from grandma's days as a showgirl. (If you want sexy, that would be Michelle's plain white "The Feeling Begins" dress -- of course, then she was 23.)
And I also thought the jumps are optional till I was 10 or so, well perhaps not really optional, but I thought that you can do as many as you want.
It just boils back down to is figure skating sport, art, neither or both.
Johnny rarely practices what he preaches, IMHO.
And Candeloro's?
I remember thinking it was totally optional, because I probably saw ice dance first in Olympics and took for granted that everyone dances and if they want they can jump sometimes. I had made up many rules on my own and for some years I was looking a total different sport probably Or maybe i still am!Until COP came along you could! There was obviously the Zayak rule, but as long as you weren't repeating triples in vioaltion of the rule you could do as many or as few jumps as you liked.Ant
The infamous too blue of his Olympics??WHy?What Yagudin did to you???I would still like that program very much if Alexei wore Scott Hamilton suit,
I would rather see Sasha skating like Sasha.
I dont mind glamorous costumes (i hope i got the glitzy translation right and i m not out of subject) and it doesnt distract me from their skating even if they have one million stars on, but as in any form of art skaters must support their choice of costume on ice, and the costume must enhance their body moves and performance. And as long as it doesnt look strange on them(like it is not theirs) I m fine.
ITA!! :agree: Such an objective sport will immediately loose me as a fan.
I don't want to see Mao in a Maoist uniform, unless she is skating to a Maoist program that would suit the costume.
It just boils back down to is figure skating sport, art, neither or both. Depending on which group you fall into dictates the answers you give, if you fall into the final category, your assessment of whether it is equally sport and art (50/50) or whether you think the weighting is different will affect your thoughts on costumes, music, presentation etc
It's an exhibition and even at that, it is not full of bugle beads and rhinestones.
I see what you mean, but personally I love it. That's a perfect example of how unique a sport this is.Whatever Johnny Weir does in his personal life is his business, and I'm not passing judgment on him in that department, but I recall his comment(after one competition that didn't go so well). His comment(which makes me cringe) was "I didn't feel princessy". I'm not sure that a male skater(regardless of sexual orientation) should feel "Princessy".