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Jason Brown

dorispulaski said:
I do hope Jason reads the comments, especially those from his fellow skaters, from Tai Babilonia to Vincent Zhou, all of whom were overwhelmingly loving and supportive.

I am considering going to SOI to see him skate again.
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It was nice seeing skaters like Loena, Donovan, Daniel Grassl, Vincent, and even a Russian Alexandra Trusova fan page, between many others, supportive in the comments of his Instagram post.
 
And now singer Natalie Imbruglia and the legend Vera Wang have chimed in! It's wonderful he's getting so much support.

I lurked on another site, and maybe shouldn't have. Most of the comments there have also been positive, but man do I get tired of the "this happened because he's older and he should just retire now" narrative. A: I was at Nats, I saw the warmups. The jumps were jumping then. B: sometimes you just have a bad day or a bad year. I think of gymnast Donnell Whittenburg who missed qualifying for the Olympics last year, but then came back and finally won a world championship in Rings this year. He's a couple months older than Jason. I don't know, maybe it's my perspective as an athlete in my 30s, but I'd argue I'm in better shape now than I was when I was younger, and pushing myself to do skills I never dreamed would be possible. Let Jason have a bad competition without turning it into a "too old, gotta retire now" moment. If he decides he wants to keep going, he absolutely should, for as long as it feels good to him. Rant over.
 
noskates said:
I already have tickets for SOI in St, Louis - primarily in hopes to see Jason skate live at least one more time.
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I just took a look at the latest roster of cities for SOI. I discovered that they are playing Albany NY and I have a friend I can stay with not too terribly far from Albany. I'm now considering that venue rather than Hershey which is 3 hours from where I live. Greensboro is also 3 hours in the other direction. Albany is less likely to sell out than Hershey, so I would have a better chance to get a better seat. Albany is 45 minutes from where my friend Lives and 2 hours from my son and his family. That's starting to look good for me. At the end of April, snow is less likely, though not impossible. Seeing Jason live again would make me very happy. And Albany's Meet and Greet is not sold out (though very expensive! ) Worth it!
 
At the very least, he's still training. I saw an adult skater post that he visited their rink and it included clips of Jason doing a Riverdance run through. It didn't show the whole run through, but what was shown looked great. Whether or not he feels ready for worlds is up to him, but it appears he's still fighting for it.
 
Thank you for flagging that Jason spotting, @cc07 . So of course I had to research, and the rink is in the Greater Palm Springs area, where I believe Jason's family vacations from time to time (when they aren't at the Dude Ranch ;) ). So combining the family time with ice time, maybe there is hope🤞 Of course only if he is in the headspace to do it...
 
el henry said:
Thank you for flagging that Jason spotting, @cc07 . So of course I had to research, and the rink is in the Greater Palm Springs area, where I believe Jason's family vacations from time to time (when they aren't at the Dude Ranch ;) ). So combining the family time with ice time, maybe there is hope🤞 Of course only if he is in the headspace to do it...
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He's still listed as 1st alternate, so being Jason, he is staying in shape and training, because he is not going to slack off. Once the Olympics begin and he is no longer able to fill in, that's when he'll decide about World's. I do hope that he does World's but only if it would make him happy to do it. But it would be so nice to see him skate well in competition again. But in 2018, after doing well at 4CCs, he couldn't face World's. So we'll see! I'm still processing what happened. It seems unbelievable.
 
Bookseller said:
He's still listed as 1st alternate, so being Jason, he is staying in shape and training, because he is not going to slack off. Once the Olympics begin and he is no longer able to fill in, that's when he'll decide about World's. I do hope that he does World's but only if it would make him happy to do it. But it would be so nice to see him skate well in competition again. But in 2018, after doing well at 4CCs, he couldn't face World's. So we'll see! I'm still processing what happened. It seems unbelievable.
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I think that maybe Jason didn't go to 4CC because he didn't have the mental bandwidth to deal with it. Also, I think that he thought with some time off the ice that he wil have the mental strength to skate well at Worlds. I don't think that Jason wants his last competion of his wonderful career to be Nationals and he probably wants to say a proper thank you to his fans. I still think thst Jason should skate to Spegiel und Spegiel for his free skate at Worlds and scrap Say Something.
 
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Skating47 said:
I think that maybe Jason didn't go to 4CC because he didn't have the mental bandwidth to deal with it. Also, I think that he thought with some time off the ice that he wil have the mental strength to skate well at Worlds. I don't think that Jason wants his last competion of his wonderful career to be Nationals and he probably wants to say a proper thank you to his fans. I still think thst Jason should skate to Spegiel und Spegiel for his free skate at Worlds and scrap Say Something.
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I wonder if Say Something is actually too emotional for him. I had a solo when I was dancing that was so meaningful to me I sometimes found it hard to dance well because my emotions got in the way of my technique.
 
I had the very same thought. I'm a competitive aerialist, and just a couple of years ago, I did a very personal piece that I ended up getting way too emotional and in my head over, wanting it to be just perfect. It's an incredibly hard balance to strike for a competitive piece, let alone in an Olympic year. I feel like maybe Say Something could be a Gala or show program, where there's no competitive pressure. Or maybe now that there's no Olympic pressure, he can skate the heck out of it. Who knows.
 
I said this from the very beginning - Say Something was not a good competitive program for him. (sorry) While it might have been emotionally important to him it didn't have the same emotional impact on the audience - or the judges maybe - that Impossible Dream or Schindler's List did. I even felt like the choreography was phoned in. It didn't look like a carefully plotted out Rohene program to me. I realize that probably wasn't the reason he had such a disastrous skate but I really agree with cc07 on this point - and El Henry will attest to the fact I said this very early on. I wish wish wish he had gone back to even Schindler's. I loved attending Nationals but watching Jason self-destruct just put a pall over the competition for me. It was if my son was out there struggling. He has given me so much pleasure and so much to look forward to every year. I never thought any skater would replace Kurt Browning in my heart but Jason is firmly planted there! :love3: Hmmmm-maybe I need a new avatar.
 
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Like @noskates, I am also having trouble with the Nats results: one that I loved and one that haunts me. Why can't a gal just be overall happy?

But the Nats disaster skate did inspire me to change the avatar. I will always love Toller, but then was then and now is now. What better time to declare my allegiances, and to show what Jason has meant to skating overall for the past ten plus years.:clap:
 
Agreed! There is such a thing as too personal. The mental and physical effort required to bring Say Something to life was huge and way more than any skater should try when attempting to make the Olympic team. It never felt like there was a catharsis that brought his voice to the fore. If he felt it, he did, but we never did. The choreo wasn't phoned in but there was no anger, no joy, no triumph, quiet or otherwise. Love is a Bitch had emphasis that expressed emotion outwardly and he sold it. Jason never sold Say Something except to himself. And that was a problem. I think that with a lot of work, he could bring that program alive, but as a free skate, trying to emote with one tempo, one rhythm, no high points, not even any low points, it just didn't work. It was like Inner Love. There was no resolution to that program and Say Something also has no resolution that I can find. Even absolutely perfectly skated, I'm not sure that program would resonate. It's like Jason got lost in the music and we couldn't find him. What Jason's fans and the judges want, is JASON! Because JASON is GREAT!! The pressure to pull that off was just too much. His brain shut down. It was overthought. I wanted to love that program. I wanted to love him doing it. Instead it felt like a question mark, not an exclamation. Jason can do melancholy, as well as Riverdance. But Riverdance is an exclamation point and Melancholy is meditation. Say Something is neither. It just didn't work and I wish that it had. When he did the run through with no jumps, it was lovely. That program doesn't work with jumps. The program was fighting the jumps. A freeskate in competition has to have jumps. There's no way around it. I hope that he can come to terms with it and move on to a program that is Jason being himself and showing us what he can do. That's the best way to have his voice heard.
 
el henry said:
Like @noskates, I am also having trouble with the Nats results: one that I loved and one that haunts me. Why can't a gal just be overall happy?

But the Nats disaster skate did inspire me to change the avatar. I will always love Toller, but then was then and now is now. What better time to declare my allegiances, and to show what Jason has meant to skating overall for the past ten plus years.:clap:
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