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How ridiculous! I mean, this is a NOVICE competition from 2009 - more than four years ago! What on earth to IceNetwork have to gain by hiding this video away?
Right?! It's crazy!
How ridiculous! I mean, this is a NOVICE competition from 2009 - more than four years ago! What on earth to IceNetwork have to gain by hiding this video away?
Brown started laughing when Farris talked about looking ridiculous and told a story about working with his choreographer, Rohene Ward.
"There's a window at our rink," he said, "And all the moms and people sit behind it and watch. Rohene decides to start our short program right in the window. And it starts with a hip roll. All the mothers were dying. Rohene was like, 'Go more full out, more full out!'"
Ward has been choreographing Brown's programs for years.
"I love working with him," Brown said with enthusiasm. "He's so talented. He's amazing."
Ward spends a lot of the year touring in Europe, so we asked how he works with Brown when he's in the States.
"It depends on the day or what mood he's in," Brown said. "We always do something with choreography, and then we'll work on jumps -- like we'll work on choreography into a jump. We could work on five seconds of a program for an hour, so that's really fun and exciting. It's never boring. There's so much more he's giving you, and you think it can't get better or harder; he's always pushing you. I love working with him."
We wondered if Brown has any interest in doing choreography, like Farris does.
"I don't know if I'm good at it," he said. "I love skating to music, I love making up transitions and stuff, but I wouldn't ever trust myself to make up my own program. Sometimes I would choreograph a part and not tell Rohene, and then he would ask 'Who changed this?' and I would say,' I have no idea!'"
Having finished one-two at so many competitions, we asked if the boys had ever imagined finishing in first and second at the senior level at the U.S. championships.
"That would be a dream come true," Brown said. "That's how I always hoped and dreamed it would be. It would be unbelievable. And then we could go to worlds!"
"2014 Worlds, we're going," Farris said. "That's our goal."
"That would be the best," Brown said. "That would be so exciting."
Anyone know if Rohene is still planning to compete at all this year?
Well, hopefully we will still have the chance to enjoy his skating if some videos of his show appearances turn up. I actually never really enjoyed watching him compete. Too heartbreaking. Would rather watch him either practice, play around (double axels in both directions back in the day) or simply perform, sharing his talent/gift.
Some of his mad skills are on display on his audition videos. They used to be on youtube.
Anyone know if Rohene is still planning to compete at all this year?