Kimmie Meissner's triple-triples video

[Bartek]

After a long break I'm coming back with the new video from my ladies' triple-triples series. This time it's Kimmie Meissner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyWXthM-fgc

Enjoy, share & comment.

 

[Olympia]

Bartek, thanks so much! I'll watch it as soon as I have time to give it a really good look. It'll be nice to see Kimmie at her peak.

 

[Bartek]

Bartek, thanks so much! I'll watch it as soon as I have time to give it a really good look. It'll be nice to see Kimmie at her peak.

You're welcome! Any requests for new video?

 

[Blades of Passion]

Her 3Flip-3Toe at 2006 Worlds is the only one I wouldn't give < or << to.

 

[evangeline]

Thanks for the video, Bartek, but.....holy mother of toe axels with UR on top!

Kimmie was lucky she won her world title before ISU began its crackdown on URs.

 

[prettykeys]

Nice 3Lz-3T's, but many of her 3F-3T's were lipped.

 

[iluvtodd]

Thanks a bunch!

 

[Olympia]

I'm watching now. It's good to see Kimmie at her peak again. Now I'll watch some of the others. It's such fun to have them all to compare! You've really done a lot of work to provide this great resource.

 

[let`s talk]

Hmm,.. Her jumps were quite low, not powerful. Yawn, in short.

 

[russell30]

Has Kimmie finished her competitive skating?

There was no official retirement was there?

 

[R.D.]

Has Kimmie finished her competitive skating?

There was no official retirement was there?

Yes and no.

 

[Olympia]

Do we know what she's doing currently?

 

[R.D.]

Do we know what she's doing currently?

skating in that "Evening on Ice" show tonight

 

[Blades of Passion]

Well her career was halted after a successful comeback performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dkrkGQ7hk

That's the best she ever did in the Short Program but, instead, all kinds of ridiculous calls (a downgrade on the 3Loop, Level 1 Spiral, lower spin levels than deserved, low PCS) pretty much wrecked her confidence and her will to keep competing. CoP ruins beautiful skating yet again.

 

[Tonichelle]

Do we know what she's doing currently?

living life as a twentysomething co-ed.

 

[R.D.]

Well her career was halted after a successful comeback performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5dkrkGQ7hk

That's the best she ever did in the Short Program but, instead, all kinds of ridiculous calls (a downgrade on the 3Loop, Level 1 Spiral, lower spin levels than deserved, low PCS) pretty much wrecked her confidence and her will to keep competing. CoP ruins beautiful skating yet again.

No, it was the injury afterward. She would have been done anyway.

 

[Blades of Passion]

The "injury" was an injury to her heart, caused by that judging.

 

[R.D.]

The "injury" was an injury to her heart, caused by that judging.

the knee injury she sustained by bailing out of a 3A at her rink (girl got in the way).

 

[Blades of Passion]

When your spirit is broken, everything loses the proper timing. Jumps require such precision and when your head isn't in the right place they aren't going to work. As a result, you're likely going to sustain more injuries as well because you'll be taking awkward falls. That "knee injury" was probably something she could have overcome (or never would have happened in the first place) if she had the confidence. In actuality, Meissner was skating poorly in practice because she didn't have the heart left to keep competing. If she had not been screwed over at 2008 Cup of Russia after finally giving a worthy performance for the first time in an entire year, then maybe she would have retained the necessary motivation you need as a competitive athlete. Instead, after pulling it together and skating well, she scored lower than ever. That can easily destroy a competitor. Forever.

 

[R.D.]

Actually, in her own words she didn't tell anyone about the injury when it occurred, and, like most athletes, waited until the pain became unbearable (and the damage substantial) to say anything. By that point her career was basically over. If she got the knee looked at as soon as it happened, she might have been able to recover more quickly and save her season.