Patrick Chan

[happylife]

Best of luck to Patrick and team Canada in Taipei for the 4CC competition.

Patrick is on his way to Taipei!

Skate Canada press release: Canadian team en route to 2016 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Chinese Taipei

Good luck and safe travels to him!

 

[Sam L]

That's a very nice picture of Patrick for your avatar, Sam. Was the MTK sweater digitally tailored?

Not a photo?

Just a photo

Sam hot new avatar pic

Thanks

Happy Chinese New Year of the Monkey to Patrick and you all!

Yay! Happy Lunar New Year to all! Can't wait to see Patrick competing at 4CC.

 

[deedee1]

Good luck to Patrick at 4CC in Taipei!

 

[Violet Bliss]

Good luck to Patrick at 4CC in Taipei!

Yes, yes. Let's make some luck.

With our positive support, Patrick won his 8th Canadian Championships with both programs beautifully performed and executed first time since his comeback. 10 days since the global synchronized meditation for Syria, peace agreement for Syria was signed. Coincidences? Good. Let's keep the wonderful coincidences going.

Time to keep love, positive thoughts, and white light flowing to Patrick.

May Patrick receive lots of love and support at Taipei.

 

[4everchan]

happy valentine's day Patrick... wink wink :luv17:

 

[happylife]

Happy Valentine's day to Patrick and to everyone!

 

[vivley]

A belated happy valentine's day to Patrick and to everyone here as well.

Calica, I really like this gif of Patrick that you posted on Twitter. Very nice!

https://twitter.com/calica_number_1/status/698836324053286913

Just another day until 4CC practice!

 

[deedee1]

Good luck to Patrick at 4CC in Taipei!

I've just opened my account to find out I got 7, I repeat, SEVEN! 'thumbs-up's for the above simple post. :hap57::hap57:

Like Patrick's buttaaaah-like skating, the love and support of his fans is amaging. That's why Fan Fest threads are my favorite place to visit, esp. in the need of uplifting my spirits. Reading posts by its devoted fans of all skaters here always light up my heart with smiles.

ETA no need to click thumb-up button this time, you guys!

 

[Violet Bliss]

I've just opened my account to find out I got 7, I repeat, SEVEN! 'thumbs-up's for the above simple post. :hap57::hap57:

Like Patrick's buttaaaah-like skating, the love and support of his fans is amaging. That's why Fan Fest threads are my favorite place to visit, esp. in the need of uplifting my spirits. Reading posts by its devoted fans of all skaters here always light up my heart with smiles.

ETA no need to click thumb-up button this time, you guys!

Let me decode the 7 thumbsup for you. Each :agree: means

1. I love deedee1.

2. Yes, good luck to Patrick at 4CC in Taipei.

Those who agree may click thumbsup for this post.

 

[skatingfan4ever]

Lol, now I'm reminded of that kid's song about monkeys jumping on a bed. But when converted to a skating song, it's a bit darker:

"Five little monkeys jumping on the ice,
One fell down and bumped his head,
Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,
"No more monkeys jumping on the ice!"

And here's the obligatory video of monkeys skating on ice. Look at those back flips! Monkeys can ice dance, too!

Thanks for this "monkey" post. Is that video real or is it digital magic? Either way it's very cute. And yes, the poem is more grim when you put the monkeys on ice. Heads and ice DO NOT go together. :no:

Yes, yes. Let's make some luck.

With our positive support, Patrick won his 8th Canadian Championships with both programs beautifully performed and executed first time since his comeback. 10 days since the global synchronized meditation for Syria, peace agreement for Syria was signed. Coincidences? Good. Let's keep the wonderful coincidences going.

Time to keep love, positive thoughts, and white light flowing to Patrick.

May Patrick receive lots of love and support at Taipei.

:agree::yes:

I've just opened my account to find out I got 7, I repeat, SEVEN! 'thumbs-up's for the above simple post. :hap57::hap57:

Like Patrick's buttaaaah-like skating, the love and support of his fans is amaging. That's why Fan Fest threads are my favorite place to visit, esp. in the need of uplifting my spirits. Reading posts by its devoted fans of all skaters here always light up my heart with smiles.

ETA no need to click thumb-up button this time, you guys!

I know, I know, I just couldn't help myself.

 

[deedee1]

Let me decode the 7 thumbsup for you. Each :agree: means

1. I love deedee1.

2. Yes, good luck to Patrick at 4CC in Taipei.

Those who agree may click thumbsup for this post.

:shocked::hslap: OMG! @_@@_@@_@ Now I know!
Normally I don't pay much attention to member's profile under the name tbh, but with no particular reason I did today. I have been wondering for a quite some time whether to ask someone in this thread how SkateFiguring is doing because I don't see her/his posts here lately... :

 

[vivley]

Haha, deedee1, how could we not give you more thumbs up after a post like that?

4everchan and everybody, I think you'll enjoy PJ Kwong's latest interview (just posted today) with Hugo Chouinard, Patrick's music designer:

http://www.openkwongdore.com/2016/02/15/episode-1-hugo-chouinard/

I didn't know he used to be an ice dancer - go figure!

 

[4everchan]

now i know whose job i need to steal

Calica : you rock the twitter world!!!!!!

Haha, deedee1, how could we not give you more thumbs up after a post like that?

4everchan and everybody, I think you'll enjoy PJ Kwong's latest interview (just posted today) with Hugo Chouinard, Patrick's music designer:

http://www.openkwongdore.com/2016/02/15/episode-1-hugo-chouinard/

I didn't know he used to be an ice dancer - go figure!

 

[vivley]

A fan reported spotting Patrick at Narita Airport 13 hours ago, so he's probably in Taipei now.

https://twitter.com/kumasaaaaan03/status/699187130522664961

 

[vivley]

Patrick's planned program content for the 4CC, courtesy of @Miki12093O:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CbTXd8bUUAAEfod.jpg

Picture of the ice rink, courtesy of Liam Firus, who had a great practice today:

https://twitter.com/Liam_Firus/status/699448947849310208

 

[calica]

Deniss Vasiljevs

"I very much like Patrick Chan’s and Daisuke Takahashi’s skating. Their style is beautiful. I’d love to skate as they do. Jump-wise I like Javier Fernandez. Patrick Chan has beautiful jumps as well."

http://www.absoluteskating.com/index.php?cat=interviews&id=2015denissvasiljevs

 

[vivley]

Short video of Patrick at the ice rink - nice smile!

https://twitter.com/dcmnu/status/699613470698811392

 

[Violet Bliss]

Short video of Patrick at the ice rink - nice smile!

https://twitter.com/dcmnu/status/699613470698811392

Great smile. And look what a totally cool short video I discovered on the same site:

https://twitter.com/dcmnu/status/682214674427805696

It looks like he's doing it on a circulating trampoline or chamber. Cool shot.

 

[Violet Bliss]

:shocked::hslap: OMG! @_@@_@@_@ Now I know!
Normally I don't pay much attention to member's profile under the name tbh, but with no particular reason I did today. I have been wondering for a quite some time whether to ask someone in this thread how SkateFiguring is doing because I don't see her/his posts here lately... :

All is hiding in plain sight. As you seek, open your eyes and you shall see.

now i know whose job i need to steal

You don't need to steal it. Follow your heart's desire and go for it. You've had it in your heart for a while now, haven't you? Design your bliss.

Calica : you rock the twitter world!!!!!!

:agree:

 

[Violet Bliss]

Absolute Skating always does great interviews. I appreciate particularly that they are in depth and that the questions are always shown as well. In Javi's latest with them, after winning the Euros, there are a couple of mentions of Patrick:

Do you think you are capable of performing a program that gets scores such as Yuzuru’s? Not just 200 in the free, but even 220?

I don’t know. My programs here in Bratislava were good, but not perfect. I had good levels of spins and steps, but still some of the elements were not perfect. We are such different skaters, our technique, our skating is just completely opposite. Some judges may have a preference; some may like one more than the other. It’s hard to play with that sometimes. He is a great skater, he skates amazing. When he skates a good program, he is really hard to beat. For me, for Patrick Chan, for everybody. I can just hope I can defend my title doing a great program. We will see. You never know, we are human beings. You just can wake up to a horrible day on a competition day. I’m going to try to defend my title, but I can never know what will happen.

You said after the free program that skating might go in two directions: we might forget the triples because they disappear completely, or the ISU might bring a new rule that would maximize the number of quads in the free program. What would you prefer personally?

Even if I’m a good jumper, I would prefer if the ISU said at some point that there has to be a limit. Just because I think it is good for the skating. It can’t be just jumping. It is true what Patrick Chan said a couple of times: skating is important! We can’t forget about skating. It’s good to do quads, but it’s really important to skate well.