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Overview: 2009 U.S. Adult Figure Skating National Championships

• April 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 2009, Adult figure skating national championships, grand rapids, ice, mi, overview, skate, skater, United States, US, USFS

Monday: update on practice and preparation for 2009 U.S. Adult Figure Skating National Championships

• April 21, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 2009 U.S. Adult National Figure Skating Championships, adult, competition, grand rapids, ice, mi, nationals, skate, skater, training

Never too old to skate: Video of 81 year old adult nationals competitor, Yvonne Dowlen

• April 2, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 2007, 81, adult, bensenville, championships, elderly, figure, ice, national, never too old to skate, oldest skater, senior citizen, skating, yvonne dowling

You-Tube link to TV interviews with Yu-Na Kim and claims a few competitors are deliberately in her way at practice…

• March 25, 2009 • 3 Comments

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Tags: competition, disruption, figure, ice, other, practice, problems, skate, skaters, World championships, ya-na kim

2009 Figure Skating World Championships: my predictions

• March 25, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 2009, alban preaubert, alena leonova, alissa czisny, amelie lacoste, anette dytrt, belbin & agosto, brandon mroz, Brian Joubert, carolina kostner, crone & poirier, cynthia phaneuf, dance, davis & white, denney & barrett, domnina & shabalin, dube & davison, duhamel & buntin, elena glebova, evan lysacek, faiella & scali, figure, fume suguri, ice, jenna mccorkell, Jeremy Abbott, jeremy ten, joannie rochette, julia sebestyen, kawaguchi & smirnov, kerr & kerr, kevin van der perren, khokhlova & novitski, ladies, laura lepisto, Mao Asada, mclaughlin & brubaker, men, michal brezina, Miki Ando, mukhortova & trankov, nbc, nobunari oda, olympics, oxygen, pairs, pang & tong, patrick chan, pechalat & bourzat, predictions, rachael flatt, samuel contesti, samuleson & bates, sara meirer, savchenkco & szolkowy, skating, spots, susanna poykio, takahiko kozuka, thomas verner, vaugn chipeur, virtue & moir, volosozhar & morozov, World championships, yannick ponsero, yu-na kim, zhang & zhang

Big names coming back to Skating!?!

• March 18, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: 2010, come back, comeback, Evegeni Plushenko, figure, ice, Michelle Kwan, olympics, Sasha Cohen, Scott Hamilton, Shen & Zhoa, skating, Vancouver

2009 Adult Midwestern Sectionals recap…

• March 5, 2009 • Leave a Comment

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Tags: adult, championships, competition, DBNAI, figure skating, ice, Midwestern Sectionals, north american invitational, USFS, Wyandotte FSC

How I came to be at home on the ice…

• February 19, 2008 • 2 Comments

Posted in coaching, competition, fan thoughts, introduction, judging, skating, testing, training
Tags: 1994 Olympics, 2007 Adult National Figure Skating Championships, 2008 Adult Midwestern Sectionals, coach, competition, figure skate, figure skating, I/WSA, ice, ice skate, ice skating, instructor, judge, Learn-to-Skate, Michelle Kwan, Nancy Kerrigan, skater, Tonya Harding, USFS, USFSA