Sometime last year - around Worlds time, I don't really remember - I tweeted rather snarkily:

"Joubert... makes me feel things. Like how much I miss Alexei Yagudin. Because this program is just Yags!Lite, let's be real."My feelings about Brian Joubert - beautiful though he is - have not much changed since the early 2000s. I've long thought that he ( Read more... )

So, the time has come to talk about pairs - the fastest, scariest, and most dangerous of skating's four disciplines. We're talking slashed faces, concussions, skate blades stuck in heads... not to mention plain old getting dropped from ~8 feet in the air! The particular combination of speed and complicated jumps, throws, and overhead lifts (as ( Read more... )

So I was more than a little tempted to just find my ten most-favorite Alexei Yagudin programs and put them in a post, done and dusted! But as much as I ADORE Yags, that would defeat the purpose of this series, which is ostensibly to get y'all acquainted with a variety of awesome skaters. Unlike ice dance, I've paid pretty much consistent attention ( Read more... )

Prompted by a prolonged Twitter conversation with mardia about ice dance at the NHK Trophy (... okay, and a lot of talk of how Meryl Davis is a GODDESS) and a pointed suggestion from meretricula (I quote: "I am on a bus right now but you should put together an LJ post of your favorite ice dance routines, I wanna watch!"), I hereby present:

( Jennifer's Top 10 Ice Dance Programs From The Years She Has Cared About Ice Dance** )