You Know You're a Figure Skating Fan When...

[Azikin]

... when you are at a wedding where a song "River flows in you" is played at the end of the ceremony, then you go congratulate the bride and groom and you tell them excitedly that you recognized the song, it was that one Evgenia Medvedeva was skating to and they look very very surprised...

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

A little off topic but I love Mel Martin and remember her with Adam Dalgleish (Roy Marsden) in "Cover Her Face" as well as in "Game, Set, and Match" with Ian Holm.

Thank you for the recommendations. I'll keep an eye out for them.

I have to be honest, I hadn't come across Mel Martin before. And I haven't really formed an opinion yet because, despite playing the title character, she didn't actually have a big part in the first episode of "Love For Lydia". But you could see the part building towards the end, as Lydia came out of her shell.

As far as the first episode was concerned, Rachel Kempson and Beatrix Lehmann stole the show as the Aunties. Although I didn't realise it, I have actually seen other things that each of them had been in. But they really stood out in this. They were absolutely brilliant!

It was only afterwards that I found out that Rachel Kempson was Michael Redgrave's wife! I never knew that his wife was also in the acting business! Now I know why their children are so good at acting - it didn't just come from the Redgrave side; it came from both of their parents! (Also interesting to note that not only did all of their children, and a good number of their grandchildren, follow them into acting, but they also followed them in marrying within the business!)

Looking forward to seeing how the series develops. (I've already spotted the seeds of one plotline).

CaroLiza_fan

 

[Diana Delafield]

...you're in your building's mailroom tidying and rearranging the tiny library, as the volunteer Chief Librarian, and it's just a housekeeping chore so you've brought along your CD player with headphones. It happened to have in it Patrick Doyle's soundtrack music from "Henry V". A neighbour drops in to pick up his mail and asks what you're listening to, and you say: "Paul Wylie's long program". Seeing a blank, you clarify: "From the '92 Olympics? Silver medal?"

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

...when your uncle and aunt pop in to visit, and they bring one of their grand-daughters with them (the third daughter of one of my cousins. I thought he only had two children, but I was missing the 2nd and 4th ). And when you hear her age, your first reaction is "my godness, I remember when you were born!" And then, as a means of putting it into context, you think "right, so she is the same age as skater B; and 2 years younger than skater A; and 5 years younger than skater Y..."

You know, meeting this girl really made me realise just how young the figure skaters we watch are. But, at the same time, it also made me realise just how grown up and mature kids are nowadays compared to when I was that age.

CaroLiza_fan

 

[FaustinaF]

When you watch the Olympics in tv, and then you see the name "Salchow" of a swimmer athlete and you incredulously speak out "man, am I really watching the right sport??"

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

...when you realise that when you get up in the morning, you will have SEVEN reminder posts to write (four of which include SP reports), because so many of the skaters you have "adopted" are competing this week!

But then you are relieved when you find it is actually only six (three of which include SP reports), because the Senior Ladies FS at the Nebelhorn Trophy isn't until Saturday. But you still have to do reminders for:

• 1 Junior Pairs partnership
• 2 Junior Ladies skaters
• 3 Senior Ice Dance partnerships

The joys of "parenthood"!

CaroLiza_fan

 

[FaustinaF]

When you invent a play with your friends which consists of throwing in the air some cilindric object and then you catch them again before they fall to the ground, to make them spin just like figure skating jump rotations!! And you say to your friend "really, that was a good quad"
This sounds really crazy I guess...

 

[Ladskater]

When you return to skating at age 69 and sign up for a basic skating lessons class even though you
haven't skated much in about 15 years.

 

[FaustinaF]

When you start planning your times to write your thesis of bachelor's degree, and then you make two plan possibilities, one that has more days of writing, the other one with less time to write, and you call them "short program" and "long program".

 

[TallyT]

Discussing elsewhere the fun of keeping a hard drive full of fannish stuff under control (yes, I have been into fandoms for most of my life and yes, I rip and download pics, videos, episodes, music, stories, articles etc etc etc with impunity and yes, I attempt every so often to sort them into order and yes, I am waaaaay behind and no, that isn't going to stop me) I thought I would check...

I have something like 3860 figure skating videos (some of them hours long, some short) and over 7000 figure skating pictures on my HD.

 

[sadya]

Same here! I'm 47 years old and still collect figure skating videos. I bought 2T memory where I store skating videos. It's skating fluff, documentaries, interviews as well as skating programs. Sources are from all over internet, be it YouTube or fans who were so generous as to make videos and share these as files.

When I became addicted to watching skating mid 90s, I'd read about former champions in any skating history book I could find. Due to lack of skating videos I'd imagine what their programs were like. Years later online video tape sharing began. Finally I could actually watch some of the programs. Or parts of these in documentaries. And then you had a website dedicated to sharing skating through online files. I could finally watch everything that had ever been filmed! It was so exciting! This was before YouTube became big. I saved so many programs that sometimes I forget how much skating I actually have. I love going through these files and watch old programs.

 

[FaustinaF]

When your friend say something in English like this: "I knew he was the best one...", but you understand he's saying "Hanyu, he was the best one"... Now every time I hear or say "I knew.." I think "Hanyu"....

 

[CaroLiza_fan]

...when you watch an episode of "The Chase", and there is a question asking what cartoon character's full first name is "Minerva". And although you didn't actually realise it before, you know the answer straight away.

And then you immediately think "Hang on. Is Minerva Fabienne Hase named after Minnie Mouse?!"

CaroLiza_fan

 

[CoyoteChris]

You know you are a figure skating fan when one of your fav skaters likes a message to /him/her. And you can have a conversation with them over IG (not this one)

 

[aroundtheworld778]

When you escape to the bathroom at work to watch the four minutes your favs are performing on the Grand Prix

 

[Diana Delafield]

When you escape to the bathroom at work to watch the four minutes your favs are performing on the Grand Prix

....or when you take your annual vacation in February or March so you can stay home and watch Worlds/Olympics on TV

 

[icetug]

...when you see a book in a bookstore window with the headline: Brian/Tracy/The Best Moment and for a short, beautiful moment you think: oh, Brian and Tracy published a memoir of their work at TCC and somehow it was translated into Polish... (by the way, the book's by Brian Tracy original title is Crunch Point)

 

[aroundtheworld778]

... when you are at a wedding where a song "River flows in you" is played at the end of the ceremony, then you go congratulate the bride and groom and you tell them excitedly that you recognized the song, it was that one Evgenia Medvedeva was skating to and they look very very surprised...

Yes, if your Spotify is full of random songs that skaters use, you are definitely a fan.

 

[Ic3Rabbit]

When you can't walk through the supermarket or literally anywhere shopping w/o hearing a song someone skated to and then you can see them skating it in your head while you're shopping.

 

[CoyoteChris]

When you escape to the bathroom at work to watch the four minutes your favs are performing on the Grand Prix

A REAL fan carries around an old positive Covid test and goes home!