Favorite dance programs.

The French team of Delobel and Schoenfelder never cease to create free programs that are unique and ingenuitive. Their free dance to "Carnival in Venice" during last year's Worlds was amazing, and definately didn't recieve the points it deserved to. This year, the on-and-off-the-ice pair skated wonderfully to "Bonnie and Clyde", the height of their season being a gold medal at Europeans.
Bulgarians Albena Denkova and Maxm Staviski are my favorite dance pair because they completely bring you into their world. They always put out mesmerizing performances that completely captivate you. Last season, they skated to a modern arrangement of "Adagio" and topped their season off with a gold medal at Worlds, and while previously only finishing 5th at the Olympics in Torino, I believed they deserved better. This season, they came first at Worlds again, putting out another beautiful and engaging performance to a mix of "Lacrimosa: Requiem" and "Romeo and Juliet".

Favorite singles programs.

The most inspiring program, to me EVER EVER EVER was Stephane Lambiel's exhibition program at the 2006 Worlds, after he won the gold (which was an intense program, too). It was so breathtaking because he was himself out there, and completely let loose and showed his heart and most of all talent, which is the exact purpose of an exhibition. Plus, he wears JEANS.


Another program that amazed me was Yu Na Kim's long program in the Eric Bompard Trophee leg of the Grand Prix 06-07. She ousted favorite Kimmie Meissner for the gold. She was beautiful in it, and it still is unbeleivable to me that she is only 16 years old. She has such poise and grace, handling pressure so well and is, above all, extremely emotional for her age. Her skating is her expression, and she manages to bring us into her world. She is truly an exquisite skater.


And now, for a retro clip: Debi Thomas' 1987 Worlds long program. She recieved the silver medal. Her split-tripletoe-doubletoe is amazing, and I really like how she expresses herself on the ice. She has her own personal style and that really comes out in her performances.

fobioh skates, too!

This is a blog for figure skating. I figured that football fans and figure skating fans aren't really the same people, so JUST FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE I've made an additional blog for skating rants, etc.

Since it's the summer right now, I'll post injuries and any other skating news I can find. I'll also give you videos of programs from this summer's shows. If there isn't anything else interesting, I'll post old programs, etc. and analyses of past events to sort of catch up on everything. There are a lot of programs I believe EVERYONE should see to be an 'educated' person, so I'll put those up, eventually.

Maybe in this blog I'll sound like I actually KNOW something about the sport. It's cause I skate. If you've noticed, I don't know shite about football, actually. But I do know loads on skating, so all of this is perfectly valid information (ahaha, but still hella biased).